Her grandmother kept her sewing notions in a small basket in the kitchen. From LearnThat.org.
You end up having certain notions about things, used to certain things. From Wordnik.com. [UP] Reference
Here also we find certain English notions concerning peasant property entirely disproved. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
The use of a fabulous creature agreeably to popular notions is not inconsistent with inspiration. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
This was designed to educate the court from the outset by indirectly dispelling certain notions about battered women. From Wordnik.com. ['Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S.] Reference
But no; you wouldn't listen, you with your highfalutin 'notions an' more pairs of shoes than any decent woman should have. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 14] Reference
And, upon this point, let not the reader derive his notions from the German books: the vast majority of German authors are not. From Wordnik.com. [Memorials and Other Papers — Complete] Reference
Discounts may not appeal to certain notions of fairness, but they certainly appeal to objective market notions of profitability. From Wordnik.com. [Free Trade with the AARP, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Common ground/common problem: Both traditional and new stories are grounded in notions of autonomy and idealized notions of consent. From Wordnik.com. [WIPIP at Seton Hall part 3] Reference
He believes these good qualities are expressed in notions of duty, love of family and of country, by extension, as the emblem of the tribe. From Wordnik.com. [The Brown Maggot] Reference
In his book, The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory, he writes: Trying to define conscious experience in terms of more primitive notions is fruitless. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: Quantum Enigma] Reference
And hence I think it is that these essences of the species of mixed modes are by a more particular name called notions; as, by a peculiar right, appertaining to the understanding. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Besides groceries, Mrs. Golden also kept "notions" -- that is, pins, thread, hooks and eyes, and things like that. From Wordnik.com. [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store] Reference
Here a box of "notions" - thimbles, thread, buttons, needles - sits atop an open notebook with a blanched maple leaf "pasted" in it. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
You are in love with your own notions, which is only with yourself. From Wordnik.com. [The Bull From The Sea]
Come, friend; you are welcome, though your notions are a little blinded with reading too many books. From Wordnik.com. [The Prairie] Reference
Marxism and Freudianism were just portmanteau notions into which virtually any kind of phenomena could be made to fit. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
His notions are his darlings; so that neither children nor self are half so dear to him as the only-begotten of his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.] Reference
If the unhappy prince gave implicit faith to the professions of statesmen holding such notions, which is implied by his whole conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
It is equally clear that in our interpretation of all such terms our notions of the nature of the self will play no inconsiderable role. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
A book, Monstrous Society, on the transformation in notions of the collective body in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. From Wordnik.com. [About this Volume] Reference
What kind of notions have you, anyhow, of a young wife, and more especially of your daughter?. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference
The former kind of notions were called preconceptions; the latter went merely by the generic name. From Wordnik.com. [Guide to Stoicism] Reference
Mrs Jefferson was quite American enough to have "notions" on dress, more or less original and extravagant. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
These are the kind of notions that feed into perceptions that coloured people are being systematically marginalised. From Wordnik.com. [The myth of coloured marginalisation] Reference
There's a lot left to teach our children, such as notions that equality can equal life, and authentic relationships. From Wordnik.com. [Randy Susan Meyers: Understanding (and Preventing) Domestic Violence Against Women] Reference
Meanwhile she was helping herself to sugar and tea and flour and butter and other little "notions" for her own comfort. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
Then she plunges into some neo-Christian speech sprinkled with political notions which is neither Catholic nor Protestant — but moral?. From Wordnik.com. [Another Study of a Woman] Reference
"What kind of notions are you getting into your head?". From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
After allowing my pocket to be filled with "notions" by the generous. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
She did not believe in "notions" and reforms, and he succumbed to her wishes. From Wordnik.com. [George Eliot; a Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy] Reference
The only way to cure Anne of her "notions" But Anne had one friend "at court.". From Wordnik.com. [Sister Anne's Vocation.] Reference
Both of these "notions" create most of the confusion discussed in these forums. From Wordnik.com. [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root] Reference
Sometimes even well-to-do young people half starve themselves because they get "notions" about food. From Wordnik.com. [Food Guide for War Service at Home Prepared under the direction of the United States Food Administration in co-operation with the United States Department of Agriculture and the Bureau of Education, with a preface by Herbert Hoover] Reference
Did JK argue in support of our 'notions' while the Chinese had to argue in support of their 'practices'?. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
"Well, we've got to realize that those kind of notions come -- come sort of natural to young folks Mary-'Gusta's age.". From Wordnik.com. [Mary-'Gusta] Reference
American "notions": English inventions and "notions," if they make their way to America at all, are not recognised as English. From Wordnik.com. [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference
The proprietress, charming and conversable lady, will sell you anything in the "notions" line, from a paper of pins to garter elastic. From Wordnik.com. [Pipefuls] Reference
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