The next day, after breakfast, he said,— “I have made up my mind: I will have twenty-five thousand francs, or keep the matter before the courts till my dying day.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

"I made up my mind that the best thing to do was to complain to maman .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

No, I’ve made up my mind about it; if I’m Mabel, I’ll stay down here!
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

H2 anchor CHAPTER 12 I had for some time past, dwelt upon the prospect of our being reduced to this last horrible extremity, and had secretly made up my mind to suffer death in any shape or under any circumstances rather than resort to such a course.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

However, it was time to bring the matter to an end, and to make up my mind to endure the pain of parting.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“I must make up my mind to die,” said the poor Queen.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Mr. Bland to Mr. Povy’s, but he being at dinner and full of company we retreated and went into Fleet Street to a friend of his, and after a long stay, he telling me the long and most perplexed story of Coronell and Bushell’s business of sugars, wherein Parke and Green and Mr. Bland and 40 more have been so concerned about the King of Portugal’s duties, wherein every party has laboured to cheat another, a most pleasant and profitable story to hear, and in the close made me understand Mr. Maes’ business better than I did before.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"But when I made up my mind to her going to live in her own way I did make up my mind."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I was not at all sure of accepting him before, but now I have quite made up my mind that I won’t have him.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

púku mas u mínus more or less.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"I've made up my mind what to do; I've been thinking about it all night," said Jimmy presently.
— from Jimmy Quixote: A Novel by Tom Gallon

The result was that I made up my mind that the railroad company must protect itself .
— from My Life by Josiah Flynt

But I had made up my mind, and I sent her back to Jean Bonaffé."
— from French and Oriental Love in a Harem by Mario Uchard

So I went back to my circus, and made up my mind I'd come back here again to-day.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus by Laura Lee Hope

"I have made up my mind not to ignore the indignity to which Russia was subjected last year by Japan, but to inflict upon it such punishment as I find it in my power to compass.
— from Rezanov by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

So I made up my mind that over the wall Old Larry must go, with the result that I got over the wall all right but Old Larry didn’t.
— from The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon

I stood for a little while longer on the Place du Carrousel, trying to make up my mind whether to proceed to the Place de la Concorde or to the Place de l'Hôtel de Ville.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

When the news of Grant's glorious capture of Vicksburg, and Meade's splendid victory at Gettysburg, was received in Berlin, I made up my mind that the crisis had arrived.
— from A Boy Trooper with Sheridan by Stanton P. Allen

And Cousin Chilian, I had made up my mind truly, I thought, for I liked Mr. Saltonstall very much, and it seemed to me you wanted me to——" Her voice died away in pathos.
— from A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda M. Douglas

"But I had made up my mind not to move."
— from Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase