His notion of the duty of a member of Parliament, sitting upon an election-committee, was very high; and when he was told of a gentleman upon one of those committees, who read the newspapers part of the time, and slept the rest, while the merits of a vote were examined by the counsel; and as an excuse, when challenged by the chairman for such behaviour, bluntly answered, 'I had made up my mind upon that case.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

"I am afraid that it is impossible," I answered, [Pg 297] for, as I have already said, I had long since made up my mind upon this subject.
— from The Kidnapped President by Guy Boothby

At least, I have made up my mind upon an essential point, my work.
— from The Blue Duchess by Paul Bourget

"I never did make up my mind until it was too late—that was the awful part!
— from Juggernaut by Alice Campbell

Darling Merry, I have quite made up my mind upon this point.
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Forty cents is an abundance; but I had made up my mind, under the circumstances, to make it fifty, and that is all I will give.
— from Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

I thought not—and most unwillingly made up my mind, unless a fair opportunity offered, to allow the twenty days to expire.
— from The War in Syria, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Napier

I have not made up my mind upon these subjects.
— from A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"It would make us much more uncomfortable to have Thérèse in one of her sulky moods, especially with strangers in the house.
— from Juggernaut by Alice Campbell