"Train of thought" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pleasant train of thought when you are standing alone in the bleakness and sadness and growing chill of the dying day, with tremendous nature piled all about you, and watching your two companions as they disappear along a lonely road. But the mood was upon him and it did not cheer him when Roy, turning ...
— Tom Slade at Temple Camp • Percy K. Fitzhugh
... neighbors generally, attended. How differently the gospel message affects different persons! Some are softened, others are hardened, by it. Some are stirred up to certain duties, while, under the same sermon, others are incited to an entirely different train of thought and course of action. The effect on Tom of the sermons of the preacher was to incite his feelings to revolt against his lot in life, and arouse him to the necessity of a purpose in living. He did not look forward so much to the world ...
— The Cabin on the Prairie • C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson
... be able to find rest on such an unusual couch. So I rose again in rather a bad humour, and looked with an evil eye on the Arabs lying on the sacks around me, who were not "slumbering softly," but snoring lustily. By way of forcing myself, if possible, into a poetical train of thought, I endeavoured to concentrate my attention on the contemplation of the beautiful landscape by moonlight; but even this would not keep me from yawning. My companion seemed much in the same mood; for he had ...
— A Visit to the Holy Land • Ida Pfeiffer
... train of thought was taking shape in his brain, as yet rather indefinite and undeveloped, but quite engaging as ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon
... I. iv. 14, for a parallel to the train of thought on the part of Aristodemus "the little," and of Euthydemus; and for Socrates' {daimonion}, see above; ...
— The Memorabilia - Recollections of Socrates • Xenophon
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