All 5 Uses of
ponder
in
Hard Times
- 'Whether,' said Gradgrind, pondering with his hands in his pockets, and his cavernous eyes on the fire, 'whether any instructor or servant can have suggested anything?†
Chpt 1.4 *
- A rather stooping man, with a knitted brow, a pondering expression of face, and a hard-looking head sufficiently capacious, on which his iron-grey hair lay long and thin, Old Stephen might have passed for a particularly intelligent man in his condition.†
Chpt 1.10
- In another moment, he stood as he had stood all the time — his usual stoop upon him; his pondering face addressed to Mr. Bounderby, with a curious expression on it, half shrewd, half perplexed, as if his mind were set upon unravelling something very difficult; his hat held tight in his left hand, which rested on his hip; his right arm, with a rugged propriety and force of action, very earnestly emphasizing what he said: not least so when it always paused, a little bent, but not…†
Chpt 1.11
- 'My dear, I have remained all night at my table, pondering again and again on what has so painfully passed between us.†
Chpt 3.1
- And he sat for a little while pondering.†
Chpt 3.3
Definition:
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(ponder) to think deeply or carefully about something