"Think of" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... think of Easter as a Christian festival, but it is really in name and origin a pagan one. The word "Easter" is the modern form of "Eastra," the name of the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring (in primitive Germanic, "Austro"). The Germans, like ourselves, keep its true pagan name, "Ostern." The Latin nations ...
— More Science From an Easy Chair • Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
... Ying-lo did not reply. At length he spoke in a low voice; "I think of one, but I fear it amounts ...
— A Chinese Wonder Book • Norman Hinsdale Pitman
... him—how kind!" cried the little woman. The poignancy of her voice cut into his disappointment like a sharp ray of light. "Even then—to think of me. But don't you understand that he wouldn't want me to—to take anything that I felt ...
— O Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 • Various
... decline the honor I intended her; but that, under any circumstances, a more intimate knowledge of my principles would be necessary before she could entertain a thought of accepting my hand, or, indeed, that of any other man.' Think of that, Pendennyss! The principles of a duke!—now, a dukedom and forty thousand a year would furnish a character, with most people, ...
— Precaution • James Fenimore Cooper
... to regard Germany and her foreign policies. To them the United States is a great, rich, brutal Empire, setting her heel and laying her fist where necessity calls. Men and women inside the United States think of themselves and of their fellow citizens as human beings. The people in the other countries read the records of the lynchings, the robberies and the murders inside the United States; of the imperial aggression toward Latin America, and they are learning to believe that the United States is ...
— The American Empire • Scott Nearing
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