1 It seemed to him that he had an answer to this question; but he had not time to formulate it to himself before he went into the nursery.
2 Mrs. Fisher's unconventionality was, after all, a merely superficial divergence from an inherited social creed, while the manners of the Gormer circle represented their first attempt to formulate such a creed for themselves.
3 He lay down, tucked his fore hoofs beneath him, shut his eyes, and with a hard effort managed to formulate his thoughts.
4 This idea, while darkening his brow, drew several sighs from him, and caused him to formulate to himself a few vows of vengeance.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS 5 The young lady who thus formulated her admiration of her brilliant friend did not, in her own person, suggest such happy possibilities.
6 The Duchess, who seldom explained herself, had not formulated her objection beyond saying: "She's rather a bore, you know."
7 And it was his idea, vaguely formulated, that his corpse would be for those eyes a great and salt reproach.
8 In his methodical brain there were distinctly formulated certain aspects of peasant life, deduced partly from that life itself, but chiefly from contrast with other modes of life.
9 Let us assume that this program was possible and had then been formulated, and that Alexander had acted on it.
10 Her formulations were not pat solutions but visions of a tragic futility.
11 Gregory was formulating his theory, which was almost exactly what Holmes had foretold in the train.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 12 There were only thoughts clearly expressed in words, thoughts that someone was uttering or that he himself was formulating.