All 3 Uses of
ponder
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Every turn, look, word, and accent contained a mystery quite distinct from its obvious import, and not one had ever been pondered by him until now.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- Bathsheba, who had been standing motionless as a model all this latter time, flung her hands to her face, and wildly attempted to ponder on the exhibition which had just passed away.†
Chpt 31-33
- She looked back upon that past over a great gulf, as if she were now a dead person, having the faculty of meditation still left in her, by means of which, like the mouldering gentlefolk of the poet's story, she could sit and ponder what a gift life used to be.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(ponder) to think deeply or carefully about something