Pensive

Examples

• She was sitting near the window, with her head reclined on her hand, and appeared more than usually pensive. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I say be happy, too,' assented the still pensive Mr Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The door closed, and the carriage rolled softly through the snow; and back returned the Countess, pensive and anxious. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• One morning at breakfast, Diana, after looking a little pensive for some minutes, asked him, If his plans were yet unchanged. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And her face, too, is visible--her countenance careless and pensive, and musing and mirthful, and mocking and tender. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Her mien was chastened and pensive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The old man had, in the mean time, been pensive; but, on the appearance of his companions, he assumed a more cheerful air, and they sat down to eat. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In time, I doubt not, I shall make her uniformly sedate and decorous, without being unaccountably pensive. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had observed that Miss Keeldar looked pensive and delicate. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• You look pensive, Lucy: is it on my account? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She sate by the window on the little settle, sadly gazing out upon the gathering shades of night, which harmonised well with her pensive thought. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• And all the while the pensive, tortured woman piled up her own defences of aesthetic knowledge, and culture, and world-visions, and disinterestedness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• When he was gone, Amy, who had been pensive all evening, said suddenly, as if busy over some new idea, Is Laurie an accomplished boy? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He felt as if suddenly shaken out of a pensive dream and found it impossible to go to sleep again. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I asked, for Holmes was turning the pipe about in his hand, and staring at it in his peculiar pensive way. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She was pensive a few minutes, then rousing herself, she said cheerfully-- But you two are my visitors to-night; I must treat you as such. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• But she certainly did grow a little pale and pensive that spring, lost much of her relish for society, and went out sketching alone a good deal. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He was a delicate, bilious-looking, interesting child of eleven years of age, with large, pensive black eyes, and thick black fringes to them. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Ned, getting sentimental, warbled a serenade with the pensive refrain. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• What her brown eye and clear forehead showed of her mind was in keeping with her dress and face--modest, gentle, and, though pensive, harmonious. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• All three looked at each other, and all three smiled--a dreary, pensive smile enough. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• He glanced from time to time at her sad and pensive face. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I had roused her from the pensive mood in which I had first found her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

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