Wondering

Examples

• I quickened my pace, and, passing among them, wondering at their looks, went hurriedly in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I don't understand what you mean, said I, wondering. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I'm too young, faltered Meg, wondering why she was so fluttered, yet rather enjoying it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Yet you told him to go, Mother, and didn't cry when he went, and never complain now, or seem as if you needed any help, said Jo, wondering. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He has been wondering that he has not seen you for a whole week. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• My head ached with wondering how it happened, if men were neither fools nor rascals; and my heart ached to think they could possibly be either. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She was wondering whether an explanation of any kind would be consistent with her loyalty to Frederick. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• They sat wondering, in silence; or, if they exchanged a few words, spoke in whispers, as if they were afraid to hear the sound of their own voices. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I beg your pardon, Mr Headstone, but I couldn't help wondering what in the world brought HIM here! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Harriet blushed and smiled, and said something about wondering that people should like her so much. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She was almost ready now to think Celia wiser than herself, and was really wondering with some fear what her wrong notion was. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I was wondering whether Rinaldi had the syphilis. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• So we all did: Traddles evidently lost in wondering at what distant time Mr. Micawber and I could have been comrades in the battle of the world. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Glancing at it, he fell to wondering how it would serve as a filament for his light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Not as well as you, dear, he rejoined, wondering what had suddenly developed in her Janey's morbid interest in clothes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

Typed by Camilla