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- And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives. [6]
- It is only when the second midnight comes that, with conscious, but pensive and far-off, eyes, he says to her: "Angelique, my wife. [11]
- Ramballe emptied his too, again pressed Pierre's hand, and leaned his elbows on the table in a pensive attitude. [2]
- At other times they drowse, or dreamily pore over exchanges, or droop limp and pensive over the chair-arms for an hour. [5]
- The half-breed was the only one entirely at his ease; he was languid and nonchalant; the long lashes of his half-shut eyelids gave his face a pensive look. [11]
- The clerk in the office, a mild, pensive, unassuming young man, was very polite in his manners, and did all he could to make us comfortable. [6]
- She was pensive, the next day, and subdued; but that was not matter for remark, for she did not differ from the mournful friends about her in that respect. [5]
- Big Ben boomed the hours, and from St. James's Palace came the stroke of the quarters, lighter, quicker, almost pensive in tone. [11]
- They cast their pensive canopies over the home-scene which Jean Jacques loved so well, before he was exhaled from its bosom. [11]
- Our cheerfulness ran over, and the mild, pensive clerk was so magnetized by it that he came and sat down with us. [6]
- These he laid on the table (for he knew the times), noting the while that the seaman watched him with a pensive, deprecating grin. [11]
- The readings went on the same as before, but I thought that Number Five was rather more silent and more pensive than she had been. [6]
- It is the moment's careless whim; a pensive pleasure, a dramatic tenderness. [11]
- One called to mind how he had seen her sitting on that very spot, and how her book had fallen on her lap, and she was gazing with a pensive face upon the sky. [12]
- A benignant sorrow made his voice in perfect temper with the pensive striving of this latest day of spring. [11]
- I remembered Stack Island; also Lake Providence, Louisiana--which is the first distinctly Southern-looking town you come to, downward-bound; lies level and low, shade-trees hung with venerable gray beards of Spanish moss; 'restful, pensive, Sunday aspect about the place,' comments Uncle Mumford, with feeling--also with truth. [5]
- And Evelyn, drinking in the beauty and the peace of it, no doubt, was more pensive than joyous. [4]
- He seated himself in his chair, and the pensive mood so characteristic (we are told) of statesmen came over him once more. [9]
- He found her in her usual place, with a look almost pensive on her face. [11]
- Oh yes," Fulkerson humorously dramatized a return to himself from a pensive absence. [8]
- Mrs. Farquhar watched her with a pensive interest awhile, went behind her chair, and, leaning over, kissed her forehead, and then with slow step and sad eyes passed out to the piazza, and stood with her face to the valley and the purple hills. [4]
- And now, somehow, he thought he caught in one of the letters a new ring, a pensive gravity, a deeper tension, which were like ciphers or signals to tell him of some change in her. [11]
- She might well have been the victim of hysterics, but she was only distrait, pensive and gently smiling, with the smile of a good heart. [11]
- As soon as Garon had said them, Medallion's lanky body followed his face, and in a moment he had the Avocat's hand in his, swallowing it, of purpose crushing it, so that Monsieur Garon waked up smartly and gave his visitor a pensive smile. [11]
- A pensive silence followed, which lasted some moments, then Wilson said: "There's one good thing, anyway. [5]
- I range the fields with pensive tread, And pace the hollow rooms, And feel (companion of the dead) I 'm living in the tombs. [7]
- There have always been ruins, no doubt; and there have always been pensive people to sigh over them, and asses to scratch upon them their names and the important date of their visit. [5]
- Whatever it may be, there is here a moment of pause, a pensive air of the closing scene. [4]
- When she rose and sat down, with folded hands and eyes downcast, there was something so pensive in her subdued mien that I could not take my eyes from her. [4]
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