course of thought
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My spirits were so disarranged, my nerves so clamorous in their confusion, that no course of thought, speech, or action presented itself.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
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Some link is snapped; and then how inconceivably rapid may be, and sometimes is, the course of thought.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine Vol. IV, No. 19, Dec 1851 by Various
As if failing, however, to detect any equivocation in his manner, Caraffa addressed himself to another course of thought and said— 'Have you questioned her, then, as to this young man's chances?'
From Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier by Lever, Charles James
This course of thought is by no means original, either with Mr. Mansel or Sir William Hamilton.
From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by Clarke, James Freeman
What course of thought, what set of circumstances, could turn the Puritan mind in the Celtic direction?
From The Art of Disappearing by Smith, John Talbot