Meditated
[medɪ,teɪtid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Meditate
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Examples
- Ursula meditated for a moment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- So Birkin meditated whilst he was ill. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He rode through the town, visiting the wounded, and giving such orders as were necessary for the siege he meditated. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy's meditated elopement. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- They are here, said Celia, with whom this explanation had been long meditated and prearranged. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Now, I wonder,' he meditated as he went along, nursing his stick, 'whether it can be, that Venus is setting himself to get the better of Wegg? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He was nerving himself to this rigor as he rode from Brassing, and meditated on the representations he must make to Rosamond. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Pruffle meditated. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- With proper civilities the ladies then withdrew; all of them equally surprised that he meditated a quick return. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- I congratulate you, Mrs Wilfer,' said Mr George Sampson, who had meditated this neat address while coming along, 'on the day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Mr. Rochester meditated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- And Mrs. Sparsit got behind her eyebrows and meditated in the gloom of that retreat, all the evening. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- He meditated on what was best to be done. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- She meditated a moment. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There was much here that was suggestive to the kindred spirit of Plato, who had doubtless meditated deeply on the 'way of life of Pythagoras' (Rep. Plato. The Republic.
- I knew there was such a hollow, hidden partly by ivy and creepers growing thick round; and there I meditated hiding my treasure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The man shuddered as he meditated upon the awful gravity, the fearful helplessness, of their situation. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- You owe me everything, I owe you nothing, save the contempt that an ungrateful hound like you deserves for such treachery as you meditated. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He meditated at first, on the probable consequences of his own advice, and the likelihood of his father's adopting it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Knowing this, the idea pressed upon me that it was in some sort my duty to speak the name he meditated. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She had meditated and taken comfort. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I shall get by very well, I meditated. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Mr. Pickwick had meditated himself into a doze, when he was roused by the chimes of the neighbouring church ringing out the hour--half-past eleven. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As this consideration forced itself upon him, he slackened his pace a little, and meditated upon his means of getting there. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
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