Both Uses of
ruminate
in
Bleak House
- "A family home," he ruminates as he marches along, "however small it is, makes a man like me look lonely.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- 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.†
Chpt 40-42
Definition:
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(ruminate) to think about something -- especially in a sustained manner; or to think again and again about something in an unhelpful manner