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  • I've heard this before, too, during one of Dad's endless ruminations about what the Others might look like.†   (source)
  • They're quiet for a bit, staring, ruminating, but then the oldest one starts up.†   (source)
  • On the eighteenth night of their journey, the wine was a rare sweet amber from the Summer Isles that he had brought all the way north from Casterly Rock, and the book a rumination on the history and properties of dragons.†   (source)
  • As I watched him walk up the steps to the landing, I saw him retrieve the joint-end from his jacket pocket and run it under his nose again, ruminatively.†   (source)
  • He reached for the water pitcher, ruminating about the elf and Shade.†   (source)
  • Subsequent to this epiphany, Stephen begins to ruminate on his namesake, the crafter of wings for escape from a different island, whom he comes to think of as "hawklike."†   (source)
  • It has , ' She ruminated, feeding him the soup automatically, wiping his mouth when he dribbled almost without looking, the way an experienced typist rarely looks at the keys; so he came to understand, effortlessly, that she had been a nurse.†   (source)
  • "Is it?" he said ruminatively.†   (source)
  • Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them.†   (source)
  • Writers (my kind of writers: aspiring novelists, ruminative thinkers, people whose brains don't work quick enough to blog or link or tweet, basically old, stubborn blowhards) were through.†   (source)
  • Instead, at least in the early months, I found myself darkly ruminating over our decision to move to a place where so few others apparently wanted to live.†   (source)
  • As always their demeanor was formally respectful; they took the law seriously and felt its majesty emanating toward them from the bench where Lew Fielding sat with his eyes half-shut, inscrutable and meditative, and from the way in which the jurors sat ruminating in rows on their elevated podium.†   (source)
  • Lord, she thought, there must be something in the water— Alexandra's voice cut through her ruminations: "Jean Louise, did you come down on the train Like That?"†   (source)
  • Mr. Hickock ruminated.†   (source)
  • I now had time to ruminate on my situation.†   (source)
  • The old man paused to ruminate on this feature of the case.†   (source)
  • "Where do you go when you go down south?" he asked Pea, who was still ruminating on the subject of his own birth.†   (source)
  • He pored over "Old Waldo" Emerson and ruminated on the philosopher's essay on "Compensation."†   (source)
  • In the fall of 2003, at the desk of his aviation company in Rawalpindi, as he tried to arrange a flight for Mortenson to Afghanistan, now that the CAI's work in Pakistan was on firm enough footing for him to leave, Bhangoo's boss, the bull-like Brigadier General Bashir Baz, ruminated on the importance of educating all of Pakistan's children, and the progress America was making in the war on terror.†   (source)
  • Looking down from the cockpit of the plane he had named after his mother, the pilot ruminated that the horrendous battle had been worth its costs: "The island, which had become Japan's prime defensive outpost, lay directly on the route our bombers flew on their mission from the Marianas to Tokyo.†   (source)
  • He spent the whole evening absorbed in thought, ruminating on the story of the fox and the hens, and perhaps that was the night the boy began to become a man.†   (source)
  • He rested a moment in critical rumination.†   (source)
  • As she did her rounds, her safety check of home sweet home, she ruminated about a new life, far away from Chapel Hill, far away from everything terrifying and bad that had happened here.†   (source)
  • I see her sitting on the stump petting Karenin's head and ruminating on mankind's debacles.†   (source)
  • I let him ruminate on that.†   (source)
  • Before leaving his headquarters to lead the march, Washington, in what seems to have been a state of perfect calm, wrote to Robert Morris, "I agree with you that it is vain to ruminate upon, or even reflect upon the authors of our present misfortunes.†   (source)
  • The doorbell interrupted his ruminations.†   (source)
  • When, weeks later, she remarked on this, Robert ruminated a moment, as she recalled him doing before declaiming details from the Dakar flight directory, and replied in perfect seriousness that he'd always believed sex, like the law, was best practiced with all due diligence.†   (source)
  • But he went on talking, in a low and ruminating voice: "It was much bigger than this.†   (source)
  • While they walked, Max ruminated on his father's words and the idea that Gravenmuir had become a part of daily life.†   (source)
  • That familiar exercise of hers, half rumination, half anxiety.†   (source)
  • I'll need to ruminate on it, understand— give it some good, hard thought—but we may need to choose a kind of backup place, just in case.†   (source)
  • Booth ruminates without remorse.†   (source)
  • Judge Green ruminated for a few minutes, then looked down at Baker.†   (source)
  • Hiss ruminated, scratching his rather peninsular jaw; Sophie waited.†   (source)
  • Mama Brown ended my ruminations over the last-name syndrome by trooping her first-through-fourth graders in for the first-day assembly.†   (source)
  • But a man is different from a cow: he ruminates by a different set of laws, and asks himself why.†   (source)
  • The little patch of hair under his lip-not silky, coarse, a pinkish white-shook in a ruminating way.†   (source)
  • (He pauses, and launches, very quietly, ruminatively, into his final stock-taking) I am the King's true subject, and pray for him and all the realm ….†   (source)
  • Stendabi ruminated. Night after night he...†   (source)
  • Seeder quietly ruminates about how, back in District 11, everyone assumes President Snow is all-powerful.   (source)
    ruminates = thinks
  • In the chapter titled "Higher Laws," in which Thoreau ruminates on the morality of eating, McCandless highlighted, "when I had caught and cleaned and cooked and eaten my fish, they seemed not to have fed me essentially."   (source)
    ruminates = thinks in a sustained manner
  • "Job ought to be easy enough," he ruminated.   (source)
    ruminated = thought
  • He covered mile after mile, grinding a rut into the earth under the weight of his ruminations.†   (source)
  • Lost in rumination, he continued down the hill.†   (source)
  • His lovemaking these days is ruminative, as if he is thinking of something else.†   (source)
  • He ruminated on avarice, poverty, fame, and honor.†   (source)
  • But she'll be in bed and asleep, I reckon, at this time of day," he ruminated.†   (source)
  • Johnson, a veteran at listening to ruminations of this sort, knew it was time to intervene.†   (source)
  • I muse, I mope, I ruminate," he wrote in the seclusion of his diary.†   (source)
  • Cur'us how things turns out in this world," the old man ruminated.†   (source)
  • As I fought to stay awake—blinking against the glare—I was ruminating in a dazed way over the expensivesmelling leather interior of the car and thinking of a story I'd often heard my mother tell: of how, when she and my dad were dating, he'd turned up in a Porsche he'd borrowed from a friend to impress her.†   (source)
  • Stepping outside, he pulled his vest tight around himself and paced away from the tavern, ruminating the whole way.†   (source)
  • It was raining in Pianosa too by the time they returned to the squadron, and they had the rest of that day to stare woodenly at the bomb line on the map under the awning of the intelligence tent and ruminate hypnotically on the fact that there was no escape.†   (source)
  • One morning at Aqueduct, while standing by the track to watch Granville complete his preparations for the Kentucky Derby, reporters were surprised to hear Sunny Jim ruminating not on his stable star but on the unknown Seabiscuit.†   (source)
  • I went from contemplating the natural beauty to ruminating on the fact that the railway line, being so close to the highway, offered a convenient place for sabotage.†   (source)
  • Then Saphira curled up on her side of the half circle and went to sleep, leaving Eragon to ruminate by the light of the dying campfire.†   (source)
  • It is not fit to wake the soul by tender strokes of art, or to ruminate upon happiness we might enjoy, lest absences become intolerable.†   (source)
  • Milo nodded with spurious vim to indicate he still understood and then sat silent, ruminating gravely with troubled misgiving.†   (source)
  • "An' I been out o' my head six months and better," the old man ruminated, staring down at the ground.†   (source)
  • His pleasure and distress were extreme, as he confided to his friend and rival Cranch: If I look upon a law book my eyes it is true are on the book, but imagination is at a tea table seeing that hair, those eyes, that shape, that familiar friendly look…… I go to bed and ruminate half the night, then fall asleep and dream the same enchanting scenes.†   (source)
  • You wouldn't believe it, Yossarian,' he ruminated, raising his voice deliberately to bait Doc Daneeka, 'but this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.†   (source)
  • Abigail left for New York to be with Nabby for the arrival of another baby, a second son, John Adams Smith, leaving Adams alone with his ruminations.†   (source)
  • "I'll bet if you'd put one of Miss Lyddy's dresses on her she'd look nobby," Mandy ruminated, addressing her looms.†   (source)
  • To John Quincy he kept up a steady flow of private ruminations, advice, and the suggestion that he take time for a tour of the English country gardens.†   (source)
  • But even if such narrowly focused animosity against an Oriental foe had not been real, most people could scarcely have known about the Nazi death camps, and this makes Steiner's ruminations all the more instructive.†   (source)
  • Every once in a while guilt would cause Joe to make an attempt to organize a softball game or a kickball game, but after his efforts had melted into mere remembrances of things past, he returned to his seesaw and ruminated upon the folly of the recreation program.†   (source)
  • To a cow ruminating in a field, the world was a vast green comfortable stasis, and then at evening, when choretime came, the world was a great swollenness.†   (source)
  • Yet even as the gentle brew took hold, softly marinating my senses, and I ruminated on Bilbo's fate, I was overtaken by another emotion; I suppose it might be called regret—faint regret perhaps, yet regret.†   (source)
  • …English drawing-rooms in the nineteenth century, had lisped so charmingly, had stormed so wildly, and all her wit and her bearing and her temper came from them, and not from the sluggish English, or the cold Scotch; but more profoundly, she ruminated the other problem, of rich and poor, and the things she saw with her own eyes, weekly, daily, here or in London, when she visited this widow, or that struggling wife in person with a bag on her arm, and a note-book and pencil with which…†   (source)
  • "Well, if I recollect right—" the Boss ruminatively turned the glass in his hands—"back in town, when we had our little talk, you sort of felt my boy Masters was all right."†   (source)
  • Utterson ruminated a while; he was surprised at his friend's selfishness, and yet relieved by it.†   (source)
  • But she deciding after due rumination that now was not the hour.†   (source)
  • Louetta raged, while the guests ruminated and peeped at her shoulders.†   (source)
  • He grew restless as he ruminated, and then decided that perhaps it was nothing.†   (source)
  • 'Well, he is just the size I want,' said Mr. Sikes, ruminating.†   (source)
  • Give me a Delaware, Judith, for one that reflects and ruminates on his idees!†   (source)
  • Again I sat ruminating what I should do.†   (source)
  • While he ruminated a footstep descended the stairs.†   (source)
  • Message from the country!' said Mr Kenwigs, ruminating; 'that's curious.†   (source)
  • Such ruminations naturally produced a streak of misanthropic bitterness.†   (source)
  • Lucy was silent for two or three minutes, looking away and ruminating.†   (source)
  • Adam sat ruminating a little while, and then said, "I wonder if Dinah 'ud ha' gone to see her.†   (source)
  • Who has let things come to such a pass?" he ruminated.†   (source)
  • Ruminating on this strange chance and strange glimpse, he turned into the court-yard.†   (source)
  • 'That's true!' observed the Jew, ruminating or pretending to ruminate.†   (source)
  • 'That's true!' observed the Jew, ruminating or pretending to ruminate.†   (source)
  • Why? they will ruminate.†   (source)
  • It startled him at first, but he could not help thinking of it, and in the constant rumination over it he found his only escape from the wretchedness of his present state.†   (source)
  • Ruminating on these things as he approached her door, he was once more conscious of the curious way in which she reversed his values, and of the need of thinking himself into conditions incredibly different from any that he knew if he were to be of use in her present difficulty.†   (source)
  • At the end of the week, when Gillingham had gone back to his school near Shaston, Phillotson, as was his custom, went to Alfredston market; ruminating again on Arabella's intelligence as he walked down the long hill which he had known before Jude knew it, though his history had not beaten so intensely upon its incline.†   (source)
  • Matthew ruminated.†   (source)
  • So he ruminated.†   (source)
  • With gray eyes impatient and distrustful essaying to fathom to the bottom Claggart's calm violet ones, Captain Vere again heard him out; then for the moment stood ruminating.†   (source)
  • Looking up, it appeared that each letter of their names stood for one of the hours; subconsciously one was grateful to Rigby and Lowndes for giving one time ratified by Greenwich; and this gratitude (so Hugh Whitbread ruminated, dallying there in front of the shop window), naturally took the form later of buying off Rigby and Lowndes socks or shoes.†   (source)
  • She was delicately molded in sentiment and answered with vague ruminations to certain wistful chords.†   (source)
  • "Needs pepping up; needs the touch that people like Mrs. Judique could give a place," he ruminated, as he rattled through the long, crude, airy streets.†   (source)
  • Well then, in his mysterious little difficulty, going in quest of the wrinkled one, Billy found him off duty in a dog-watch ruminating by himself, seated on a shot-box of the upper gun deck, now and then surveying with a somewhat cynical regard certain of the more swaggering promenaders there.†   (source)
  • And sat staring and ruminating.†   (source)
  • "Gone deaf in an hour?" said Mr. Cruncher, ruminating, with his mind much disturbed; "wot's come to her?"†   (source)
  • No little Gradgrind had ever associated a cow in a field with that famous cow with the crumpled horn who tossed the dog who worried the cat who killed the rat who ate the malt, or with that yet more famous cow who swallowed Tom Thumb: it had never heard of those celebrities, and had only been introduced to a cow as a graminivorous ruminating quadruped with several stomachs.†   (source)
  • The scout ruminated, like a man digesting his newly-acquired knowledge, and once more stole a glance at the horses.†   (source)
  • Having, then, thoroughly ruminated Quasimodo's affair, he threw back his head and half closed his eyes, for the sake of more majesty and impartiality, so that, at that moment, he was both deaf and blind.†   (source)
  • " 'tis time to change our natur's," he observed to the brother of his wife, who was rarely far from his elbow; "and to become ruminators, instead of people used to the fare of Christians and free men.†   (source)
  • "True," replied Danglars; "the French have the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate, while the French invent."†   (source)
  • These innumerable multitudes of ruminating beasts often form an insurmountable obstacle to the passage of the trains; thousands of them have been seen passing over the track for hours together, in compact ranks.†   (source)
  • So saying, he departed, and left the Disinherited Knight to his own perplexed ruminations; which, upon more accounts than it is now possible to communicate to the reader, were of a nature peculiarly agitating and painful.†   (source)
  • "There's one thing you may be sure of, Pip," said Joe, after some rumination, "namely, that lies is lies.†   (source)
  • This excessive rumination and self-questioning is perhaps a morbid habit inevitable to a mind of much moral sensibility when shut out from its due share of outward activity and of practical claims on its affections—inevitable to a noble-hearted, childless woman, when her lot is narrow.†   (source)
  • When we had done, he brought me a pudding, and having set it before me, seemed to ruminate, and to become absent in his mind for some moments.†   (source)
  • And for a little while she hoped he would not talk of it, and that a silent rumination might suffice to restore him to the relish of his own smooth gruel.†   (source)
  • Long before this time Henchard, weary of his ruminations on the bridge, had repaired towards the town.†   (source)
  • Over the dimly lighted strand there trod the huge mammals of the first ages of the world, the leptotherium (slender beast), found in the caverns of Brazil; the merycotherium (ruminating beast), found in the 'drift' of iceclad Siberia.†   (source)
  • Unconsciously clapping the vinegar-cruet to one side of her nose, she ruminated for an instant; then exclaimed—"No!†   (source)
  • "A family home," he ruminates as he marches along, "however small it is, makes a man like me look lonely.†   (source)
  • Having smoked his pipe out, and ruminated a little longer, he turned himself about, that he might appear, before the hour of closing, on his station at Tellson's.†   (source)
  • With that, Dunstan slammed the door behind him, and left Godfrey to that bitter rumination on his personal circumstances which was now unbroken from day to day save by the excitement of sporting, drinking, card-playing, or the rarer and less oblivious pleasure of seeing Miss Nancy Lammeter.†   (source)
  • The subtle element seized with avidity upon its new fuel, and in a moment forked flames were gliding among the grass, as the tongues of ruminating animals are seen rolling among their food, apparently in quest of its sweetest portions.†   (source)
  • "I am sure Mrs. Garth would agree with you there," said Mr. Farebrother, who for some reason seemed more inclined to ruminate than to speak.†   (source)
  • The chaplain walked away, but the elderly gentleman stood still, looking down on the pavement and stroking his chin with a ruminating air, when he was roused by a sweet clear woman's voice, saying, "Can I get into the prison, if you please?"†   (source)
  • At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with his jack-knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space between his legs.†   (source)
  • Of this chamber, Nicholas became the tenant; and having hired a few common articles of furniture from a neighbouring broker, and paid the first week's hire in advance, out of a small fund raised by the conversion of some spare clothes into ready money, he sat himself down to ruminate upon his prospects, which, like the prospect outside his window, were sufficiently confined and dingy.†   (source)
  • He felt this, and was silent again for a little while, ruminating much on the possible forms in which he might put a question.†   (source)
  • But, being a mother, it was inevitable that she should soon cease to ruminate upon her own condition.†   (source)
  • The child's black eyes, after slow, round, ruminating gazes at the candles when they were lighted, fell together; then they opened, then shut again, and she slept.†   (source)
  • So did these come and go, a Dedlock in possession might have ruminated passing along; so did they see this gallery hushed and quiet, as I see it now; so think, as I think, of the gap that they would make in this domain when they were gone; so find it, as I find it, difficult to believe that it could be without them; so pass from my world, as I pass from theirs, now closing the reverberating door; so leave no blank to miss them, and so die.†   (source)
  • Much might be ruminated here, concerning the essential dignity of this regal process, because in common life we esteem but meanly and contemptibly a fellow who anoints his hair, and palpably smells of that anointing.†   (source)
  • Fairly launched into the ceaseless glides and whirls which their new position as top couple opened up to them, Eustacia's pulses began to move too quickly for long rumination of any kind.†   (source)
  • …a pedestrian at Batherley, and to encounter the grinning queries of stablemen, stood unpleasantly in the way of his impatience to be back at Raveloe and carry out his felicitous plan; and a casual visitation of his waistcoat-pocket, as he was ruminating, awakened his memory to the fact that the two or three small coins his forefinger encountered there were of too pale a colour to cover that small debt, without payment of which the stable-keeper had declared he would never do any more…†   (source)
  • "Why, Lucy had got a collar on this blessed day," continued Mrs. Pullet, with her eyes fixed in a ruminating manner, "as I don't say I haven't got as good, but I must look out my best to match it."†   (source)
  • This eminent gentleman and Mr Merdle, seated diverse ways and with ruminating aspects on a yellow ottoman in the light of the fire, holding no verbal communication with each other, bore a strong general resemblance to the two cows in the Cuyp picture over against them.†   (source)
  • She did not answer at once, but after looking down ruminatingly she said, with some earnestness, "Mr.†   (source)
  • Instead of sleeping, the worthy naturalist sat ruminating over what he had both seen and heard that day, until the tossing and mutterings which proceeded from the cabin of Esther, who was his nearest neighbour, advertised him of the wakeful situation of its inmate.†   (source)
  • He had abundance of time to ruminate on this discovery, for Tim Linkinwater was absent during the greater part of an hour, during the whole of which time Nicholas thought of nothing but the young lady, and her exceeding beauty, and what could possibly have brought her there, and why they made such a mystery of it.†   (source)
  • Since then the troubles of her married life had deepened, and the absence of other relief encouraged her regretful rumination over that thin romance which she had once fed on.†   (source)
  • II The People at Blooms-End Make Ready All that afternoon the expected arrival of the subject of Eustacia's ruminations created a bustle of preparation at Blooms-End.†   (source)
  • When Maggie had left him, Dr. Kenn stood ruminating with his hands behind him, and his eyes fixed on the carpet, under a painful sense of doubt and difficulty.†   (source)
  • After ruminating for some minutes with his chin sunk on his breast, he raised his head and said, with a deep sigh, that if flash Toby Crackit reported aright, he feared the game was up.†   (source)
  • He knew the air, the stature, the dress, and the features, even to the colour of the eyes and of the hair, of every one of the Big-knives, whom he had thus strangely encountered, and deeply had he ruminated on the causes, which could have led a party, so singularly constituted, into the haunts of the rude inhabitants of his native wastes.†   (source)
  • 'That's odd enough!' said Nicholas, ruminating upon the strange manner in which the register-office seemed to start up and stare him in the face every now and then, and when he least expected it.†   (source)
  • Such was the result to which Miss La Creevy's ruminations and observations led her, when the cottage had been, as she emphatically said, 'thoroughly got to rights, from the chimney-pots to the street-door scraper,' and the busy little woman had at length a moment's time to think about its inmates.†   (source)
  • Do you imagine that her rapid forecast and rumination concerning house-furniture and society were ever discernible in her conversation, even with her mamma?†   (source)
  • Why that should have happened to her which had not happened to other women remained an insoluble question by which she expressed her perpetual ruminating comparison of the past with the present.†   (source)
  • While she was feigning to write it, and Nicholas was ruminating upon the extraordinary but by no means uncommon character thus presented to his observation, the invalid, who appeared at times to suffer great bodily pain, sank back in his chair and moaned out a feeble complaint that the girl had been gone an hour, and that everybody conspired to goad him.†   (source)
  • Here Mr. Featherstone pulled at both sides of his wig as if he wanted to deafen himself, and his sister went away ruminating on this oracular speech of his.†   (source)
  • The eyes in the parlor were not turned toward the bridge just then, and the group there was sitting in unexpectant silence,—Mr. Tulliver in his arm-chair, tired with a long ride, and ruminating with a worn look, fixed chiefly on Maggie, who was bending over her sewing while her mother was making the tea.†   (source)
  • Much of Fred's rumination might be summed up in the words, "It certainly would have been a fine thing for her to marry Farebrother—but if she loves me best and I am a good husband?"†   (source)
  • Was not Stephen Guest right in his decided opinion that this slim maiden of eighteen was quite the sort of wife a man would not be likely to repent of marrying,—a woman who was loving and thoughtful for other women, not giving them Judas-kisses with eyes askance on their welcome defects, but with real care and vision for their half-hidden pains and mortifications, with long ruminating enjoyment of little pleasures prepared for them?†   (source)
  • Therefore it was finally determined that matters should be so arranged, and Newman, after listening to many supplementary cautions and entreaties, took his leave of Miss La Creevy and trudged back to Golden Square; ruminating as he went upon a vast number of possibilities and impossibilities which crowded upon his brain, and arose out of the conversation that had just terminated.†   (source)
  • Much rumination had Mr. Tulliver on these puzzling subjects during his rides on the gray horse; much turning of the head from side to side, as the scales dipped alternately; but the probable result was still out of sight, only to be reached through much hot argument and iteration in domestic and social life.†   (source)
  • "You have come all the way from Paris to find me?" she said to him the next day, sitting before him with folded arms, and looking at him with eyes that seemed to wonder as an untamed ruminating animal wonders.†   (source)
  • The arrangements made by Mr. Casaubon on his marriage left strong measures open to him, but in ruminating on them his mind inevitably dwelt so much on the probabilities of his own life that the longing to get the nearest possible calculation had at last overcome his proud reticence, and had determined him to ask Lydgate's opinion as to the nature of his illness.†   (source)
  • At home, that same evening when he had been chatting with Mr. Farebrother, he had his long legs stretched on the sofa, his head thrown back, and his hands clasped behind it according to his favorite ruminating attitude, while Rosamond sat at the piano, and played one tune after another, of which her husband only knew (like the emotional elephant he was!†   (source)
  • It had not occurred to Lydgate that he had been a subject of eager meditation to Rosamond, who had neither any reason for throwing her marriage into distant perspective, nor any pathological studies to divert her mind from that ruminating habit, that inward repetition of looks, words, and phrases, which makes a large part in the lives of most girls.†   (source)
  • Old Featherstone had often reflected as he sat looking at the fire that Standish would be surprised some day: it is true that if he had done as he liked at the last, and burnt the will drawn up by another lawyer, he would not have secured that minor end; still he had had his pleasure in ruminating on it.†   (source)
  • He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning.   (source)
  • what I know Is ruminated, plotted, and set down   (source)
    ruminated = thought about
  • 'tis a studied, not a present thought, by duty ruminated.   (source)
    ruminated = thought about in a sustained manner
  • then she plots, then she ruminates, then she devises;   (source)
    ruminates = thinks
  • my often rumination   (source)
    rumination = thought
  • I pr'ythee, speak to me as to thy thinkings
    As thou dost ruminate; and give thy worst of thoughts
    The worst of words.   (source)
    ruminate = think (in a sustained manner)
  • I was disturbed in these interesting ruminations by a sudden knock on the door.†   (source)
  • Staggering Bob, a whitepolled calf, thrusts a ruminating head with humid nostrils through the foliage.†   (source)
  • No longer is Leopold, as he sits there, ruminating, chewing the cud of reminiscence, that staid agent of publicity and holder of a modest substance in the funds.†   (source)
  • Luxury Love of the same, acquired from Rumination, that is Imagination of Pleasure past, LUXURY.†   (source)
  • I told my lord the Duke, by the devil's illusions The monk might be deceiv'd; and that 'twas dangerous for him To ruminate on this so far, until It forg'd him some design; which, being believ'd, It was much like to do.†   (source)
  • That you may ruminate.†   (source)
  • I then gathered in the rope you were sending me, and making a coil or pile of it I seated myself upon it, ruminating and considering what I was to do to lower myself to the bottom, having no one to hold me up; and as I was thus deep in thought and perplexity, suddenly and without provocation a profound sleep fell upon me, and when I least expected it, I know not how, I awoke and found myself in the midst of the most beautiful, delightful meadow that nature could produce or the most…†   (source)
  • …his might, and wreathed His lithe proboscis; close the serpent sly, Insinuating, wove with Gordian twine His braided train, and of his fatal guile Gave proof unheeded; others on the grass Couched, and now filled with pasture gazing sat, Or bedward ruminating; for the sun, Declined, was hasting now with prone career To the ocean isles, and in the ascending scale Of Heaven the stars that usher evening rose: When Satan still in gaze, as first he stood, Scarce thus at length failed speech…†   (source)
  • He had not long ruminated on these matters, before it occurred to his memory that he had a brother who was under no such unhappy incapacity.†   (source)
  • And to be the author of this highest degree of misery to a human being, was a thought on which he could not bear to ruminate a single moment.†   (source)
  • Here she used to ruminate, with a mixture of pain and pleasure, on an incident which, however trifling in itself, had possibly sown the first seeds of that affection which was now arrived to such maturity in her heart.†   (source)
  • In fact, when Partridge came to ruminate on the relation he had heard from Jones, he could not reconcile to himself that Mr Allworthy should turn his son (for so he most firmly believed him to be) out of doors, for any reason which he had heard assigned.†   (source)
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