better thoughts
Example Sentences
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“I have better thoughts of those alligators now that I’ve seen them at home,” he wrote.
From The New Yorker β Nov. 16, 2018
We have to shift onto a more positive conversational track to start generating better thoughts.
From Time β Sep. 11, 2015
He watches my lips, and I let my words trickle out as softly as his...on the influx of better thoughts.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
After a struggle with her better thoughts, she gives in, and acknowledges her soreness of heart arises from the conviction that she has forever disgraced herself in her guardian's eyes.
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
Had you not brought the king to better thoughts when already the whole negociation threatened to miscarry, I should never have arrived where I am to-day.'
From Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna by C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde
