Meditations

Examples

• Mr. Pickwick sat himself down in a chair before the fire, and fell into a train of rambling meditations. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The result of her meditations was the decision to join her aunt at Richfield. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• One must bring his meditations cut and dried, or else cut and dry them afterward. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I was standing close to him, looking at him; and still, with a heavy brow, he was lost in his meditations. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The meditations of the statesman were here interrupted by the voice of the Prince from an interior apartment, calling out, Noble Waldemar Fitzurse! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And in these meditations he fell asleep. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But in truth, neither the lonely meditations of the hermit, nor the tumultuous raptures of the reveller, are capable of satisfying man's heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But my mind could not go by it and leave it, as my body did; and it usually awakened a long train of meditations. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I have no meditations, suggested by this spot where the very first Merry Christmas! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• But, a light footstep roused him from his meditations, and it was Bella's. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• During his days in prison he busied himself in penning his philosophic, religious, and artistic meditations, as many other illustrious prisoners have done. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• My meditations were interrupted by Samuel. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Words derive from St. Augustine's _Meditations_. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In his closest meditations the life-long habit of Mr. Bulstrode's mind clad his most egoistic terrors in doctrinal references to superhuman ends. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• What are your meditations? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The return of Mr Casby with his daughter Flora, put an end to these meditations. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I might have been too reserved, and should have patronized her more (though I did not use that precise word in my meditations) with my confidence. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• How to seduce any individuals from such an alliance of fraud, was a frequent subject of Adrian's meditations and discourse. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Through all these meditations which every day of his life crowded about her, he thought of her otherwise in the old way. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• His meditations were put an end to by Crispin, who approached with Dick, on whose behalf he proffered a challenge to Mr Roylands. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

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