All 7 Uses of
pensive
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- He remained motionless and pensive, his eyes fixed on the gloomy aperture that was open at his feet.†
Chpt 23-24
- There was a brief silence; the abbe rose and paced up and down pensively, and then resumed his seat.†
Chpt 27-28 *
- Franz remained a moment silent and pensive, hardly knowing what to think of the half-kindness, half-cruelty, with which his host related the brief narrative.†
Chpt 31-32
- The young girl was very pensive, but seeing Luigi so cheerful, she on her part assumed a smiling air, which was natural to her when she was not excited or in a passion.†
Chpt 33-34
- He then began pacing the room with a pensive and gloomy air, glancing from time to time at the jeweller, who stood reeking with the steam from his wet clothes, and merely changing his place on the warm hearth, to enable the whole of his garments to be dried.†
Chpt 45-46
- The count had felt the influence of this happiness from the moment he entered the house, and he remained silent and pensive, forgetting that he was expected to renew the conversation, which had ceased after the first salutations had been exchanged.†
Chpt 49-50
- When he had ended the perusal, he folded the letter and resumed his pensive attitude.†
Chpt 105-106
Definition:
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(pensive) appearing deep in thought -- typically looking sad or serious