All 18 Uses of
ponder
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- No doubt he was always pondering in his mind how the family discord could be ended.†
Chpt 1 *
- To-morrow he will be sure to take it," said Alyosha, pacing up and down, pondering.†
Chpt 5
- "Yes, my brothers too," murmured Alyosha, pondering.†
Chpt 5
- Ivan frowned and pondered.†
Chpt 5
- He was suddenly silent and seemed to be pondering.†
Chpt 6
- Though the trinkets and letters made them ponder, they decided that even if they did turn out to be authentic, no charge could be based on those alone.†
Chpt 6
- I sat down and asked you to sit down, and for a whole minute I pondered.†
Chpt 6
- (i) Of Hell and Hell Fire, a Mystic Reflection Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?"†
Chpt 6
- "Dmitri Fyodorovitch," so he testified afterwards, "seemed unlike himself, too; not drunk, but, as it were, exalted, lost to everything, but at the same time, as it were, absorbed, as though pondering and searching for something and unable to come to a decision.†
Chpt 8
- Kostya stared at Nastya and listened, pondering profoundly.†
Chpt 10
- "But how can she ruin Mitya?" he asked, pondering on Ivan's words.†
Chpt 11
- You contradict yourself!" said Ivan, pondering.†
Chpt 11
- Ivan sank back on his chair, as though pondering something.†
Chpt 11
- "Stay," cried Ivan, pondering.†
Chpt 11
- Smerdyakov paused as though pondering.†
Chpt 11
- "What an ass!" cried Ivan, laughing nervously and still seeming to be pondering something intently.†
Chpt 11
- She was reckless now of all consequences to herself, though, no doubt, she had foreseen them even a month ago, for even then, perhaps, shaking with anger, she had pondered whether to show it at the trial or not.†
Chpt 12
- He had become terribly preoccupied since the trial; sometimes he would be silent for half an hour together, and seemed to be pondering something heavily and painfully, oblivious of everything about him.†
Chpt Epil.
Definition:
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(ponder) to think deeply or carefully about something