1 An idea struck me, and I looked up.
2 This gave me an idea, or the rudiment of one.
3 Those ideas of his might work out dangerously with strangers.
4 Of one thing only am I certain; that it is no use making my ideas known to the Count.
5 With the child-brain that was to him he have long since conceive the idea of coming to a great city.
6 At present I am going in my mind from point to point as a mad man, and not a sane one, follows an idea.
7 I have an idea that Van Helsing thinks he knows, too, but he will only let out enough at a time to whet curiosity.
8 He will then argue back that it is we, mistaken ones, that have killed her by our ideas; and so he will be much unhappy always.
9 I did not like to wound him by pretending not to see his idea; but, as I did not yet understand the cause of his laughter, I asked him.
10 First mate angry; said it was folly, and to yield to such foolish ideas would demoralise the men; said he would engage to keep them out of trouble with a handspike.
11 It at once occurred to me that this wound, or whatever it was, might be the means of that manifest loss of blood; but I abandoned the idea as soon as formed, for such a thing could not be.
12 I know your idea of duty to your father, and you are right to stick to it; but, if need be, I shall send you word to come at once to Lucy; so do not be over-anxious unless you hear from me.
13 I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us; a personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
14 All at once that shifty look came into his eyes which we always see when a madman has seized an idea, and with it the shifty movement of the head and back which asylum attendants come to know so well.
15 Mrs. Westenra has got an idea that sleep-walkers always go out on roofs of houses and along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly wakened and fall over with a despairing cry that echoes all over the place.
16 I had a dim idea that he was teaching me some lesson, as long ago he used to do in his study at Amsterdam; but he used then to tell me the thing, so that I could have the object of thought in mind all the time.
17 I know he has forgiven me because in some mistaken idea I have done things that prevent him say good-bye as he ought; and he may think that in some more mistaken idea this woman was buried alive; and that in most mistake of all we have killed her.
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