thinks

Jenkins has scoured the town pretty well in the time he had, A clerk at Maplewood Inn thinks -- _thinks_ -- he saw such a man in the lobby there about three weeks ago.

The Winning Clue James Hay 1908

"Now to-night," he resumed, "here's somebody just rung up to say that he thinks, only _thinks_, mind you, that he has forgotten to lock his garage and will the constable on that beat see if the keys have been left behind.

The Green Eyes of Bâst Sax Rohmer 1921

Joe can see) he shakes a sceptic head, and, leaning towards you, whispers (forgetting that Joe can only hear when you shout at him) that you must be pleased to remember that "_that's_ what he thinks he done; and no doubt he _thinks_ that it was so; and it may be it was, and I should never think of contradicting, not no man; but I has my own opinion in the matter.

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

When asked what right they had to do so, they replied: "Catch-22", which says that they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing, and they don't have to tell us anything they don't want us to know – quite different to what everyone who uses the phrase thinks it means.

Notes and queries: Budget airlines, the eyesores of the skies; How Catch-22 has caught us all out; More instruments for hell's orchestra 2011

The goosegirl of the title thinks she was once a princess, though sometimes she believes this to be imagination, and that she is in fact a witch.

PodCastle » PC004: Goosegirl 2008

My biggest obstacle to the introduction of wikis is that each time I introduce or speak of it, the newcomer to the term thinks I am referring to something that has to do with wicca, a witchcraft organization.

Archive 2006-06-01 2006

My biggest obstacle to the introduction of wikis is that each time I introduce or speak of it, the newcomer to the term thinks I am referring to something that has to do with wicca, a witchcraft organization.

The name wiki seems to have not taken hold although the use has. 2006

"Which she thinks is French for 'old hen, '" scoffed the tart Mercy.

Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson

When asked what right they had to do so, they replied: "Catch-22", which says that they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing, and they don't have to tell us anything they don't want us to know - quite different to what everyone who uses the phrase thinks it means.

The Guardian World News 2011

"Whatever Scioscia thinks is the right formula to win baseball games, I'm all for it," he says.

USATODAY.com - Erstad leads way for Angels, Eckstein 2002