All 3 Uses of
pensive
in
David Copperfield
- Agnes laid aside her work, and replied, folding her hands upon one another, and looking pensively at me out of those beautiful soft eyes of hers: 'I believe he is going to enter into partnership with papa.'†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Miss Mills was more than usually pensive when Dora, going to find her, brought her back; — I apprehend, because there was a tendency in what had passed to awaken the slumbering echoes in the caverns of Memory.†
Chpt 31-33
- 'I have still a presentiment,' said Mrs. Micawber, pensively shaking her head, 'that my family will appear on board, before we finally depart.'†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(pensive) appearing deep in thought -- typically looking sad or serious