All 7 Uses of
ponder
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Reflect, ponder, excogitate, reply.†
Chpt 7 *
- Here he ponders things that were not: what Caesar would have lived to do had he believed the soothsayer: what might have been: possibilities of the possible as possible: things not known: what name Achilles bore when he lived among women.†
Chpt 9
- There master Courtenay, sitting in his own chamber, gave his rede and master Justice Andrews, sitting without a jury in the probate court, weighed well and pondered the claim of the first chargeant upon the property in the matter of the will propounded and final testamentary disposition in re the real and personal estate of the late lamented Jacob Halliday, vintner, deceased, versus Livingstone, an infant, of unsound mind, and another.†
Chpt 12
- Woman's woe with wonder pondering.†
Chpt 14
- For the nonce he was rather nonplussed but inasmuch as the duty plainly devolved upon him to take some measures on the subject he pondered suitable ways and means during which Stephen repeatedly yawned.†
Chpt 16
- Mr Bloom, so far as he was personally concerned, was just pondering in pensive mood.†
Chpt 16
- What selfevident enigma pondered with desultory constancy during 30 years did Bloom now, having effected natural obscurity by the extinction of artificial light, silently suddenly comprehend?†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(ponder) to think deeply or carefully about something