"Idea" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he thought that Siminok had won his wife's love, and would not believe him when he told him the simple truth—that such an idea had never ...
— Roumanian Fairy Tales • Various
... I ever said to Miss Newton that she should entertain such an idea? Mr Raymond glanced at me with a brotherly sort of smile, which I wished from my heart that I deserved, (for all he is a Whig!) and was afraid I ...
— Out in the Forty-Five - Duncan Keith's Vow • Emily Sarah Holt
... occupied his thoughts during my absence. As we were driving home he entered into all the details of the scheme as he conceived it, and said he believed he might undertake the management of such a periodical, even where he was situated, if Mr. Seeley gave his valuable help. He was full of the idea, and his thoughts were ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... stranger could enter his country without his knowledge. He confessed that my movements while in the Base country had been watched by his spies, until he had felt assured that I had no sinister motive. I laughed at the idea; he replied, that we were most fortunate to have escaped an attack from the natives, as they were far worse than wild beasts, and he immediately pointed out several Base slaves who were present in the ...
— The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia • Samuel W. Baker
... be angry," I said. "You have no idea how she makes me suffer. When you were little you never went to school, so you do not understand. Now, listen—instead of keeping the bad children after school, she sends us all home with twenty ...
— Paula the Waldensian • Eva Lecomte
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