What is "trains of thought"

Usage examples of "trains of thought".

The cards had grown into interlocking circles like trains of thought, and Cloud spoke to George of events that would befall him.

Strange how the kinetics of it evoked trains of thought, flashes of memory: the look of Underbill as they were building the foursquare dome.

I was a Party worker for a year and a half, a housewife for two years, and then I was suddenly alone, with a baby, allotment checks, time to experiment, and eventually John Michel, and all the people and trains of thought he brought with him.

Had the other people in the hotel been other dreamers, glimpsed as they went about their own trains of thought?

My mind keeps wandering off into the most fantastic trains of thought, some of them pretty wild and morbid.

But however little the differences had been, they were enough to set each of them off on somewhat different trains of thought.

He had mounted various slogans around his laboratory to initiate trains of thought at unexpected times.

Even then, I can't communicate with people who take too long to respond as I just can't keep their trains of thought alive for those extended periods of time.

With nine different versions of this complicated story, one can go on for ever trying to follow up the possible trains of thought of William and Harold.

Even Bene Gesserit acolytes could follow several trains of thought simultaneously.

This curious and unexpected discovery, uncertain as were its indications of any identity of the person, or even of the age or sex of the person, by whom that delicate footprint was made, at once diverted his attention, from the particular care by which it had been engrossed, and started that other of the two trains of thought, which, for the last month, but especially since his singular awakening the past night, had constituted the chief burden of his mind,—.