The brief thought came that this should be an alarming and disturbing experience.

Then that brief thought gave way to another one.

Killed by my own shirt, was his brief thought, then the cloth flapped away again.

The inspector supplied it; after brief thought, Leon wrote some more names at the bottom.

A brief thought of Kai swam through his head, but he could not even hold on to that.

It was only a brief thought though, that one.

The horror of that brief thought made his stomach churn.

She spared a brief thought for the pilots who were doing that right now.

It was only a brief thought, the very briefest of temptations.

I am naturally going express a few brief thoughts on these.