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  • His front hooves raised a few inches off the dirt, as if he'd pondered rearing but thought better of it, then he dropped his head and his paws stilled.†   (source)
  • Back at her place, she sat pondering on the brick 'n' boards, and came up with another idea.†   (source)
  • I often imagine him lying awake all that night, pondering what he could possibly offer.†   (source)
  • So I'm pondering the reason why he insists on taking care of Haymitch and all of a sudden I think, It's because he's being kind.†   (source)
  • "Teach him, if you can, the wonder of books ...But also give him quiet time to ponder the eternal mystery of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and the flowers on a green hillside," it says.†   (source)
  • It did bother me a bit, but I had pondered this quite a lot in the weeks before I asked Baba to go khastegari.†   (source)
  • They think we don't remember our pasts or ponder our futures.†   (source)
  • Now let's go back to Judy, who is standing by with a panel of renowned Halliday scholars—" I smiled and closed the vidfeed window, pondering the old man's advice.†   (source)
  • He ponders this as he sits on the bus, trying to deny how mixed his feelings about it are.†   (source)
  • She gave me a serious look, as if imparting a meaningful life lesson I should ponder and absorb.†   (source)
  • But as the months passed and I had the opportunity to ponder McCandless's death at greater length, the less plausible this consensus seemed.†   (source)
  • Louie pondered it for a long while, trying to come up with a reason why someone would need a screwdriver or pliers on a raft.†   (source)
  • Lily pondered that.†   (source)
  • June loved to tease August about the way she pondered things, how one minute she was talking to you and the next she had slipped into a private world where she turned her thoughts over and over, digesting stuff most people would choke on.†   (source)
  • Stacey pondered the suggestion for a long moment.†   (source)
  • Ponderous gatherings, at which weighty, substantial men met and pondered, because — everyone suspected it — there was heavy weather ahead.†   (source)
  • While Almondine pondered this, a sound reached her ears—a whispery rasp, barely audible, even to her.†   (source)
  • I'm pondering this when my eyes meet Genevieve's.†   (source)
  • As we stood pondering our predicament, an enthusiastic young girl came leaping out of her house and said something.†   (source)
  • As she pondered human nature, Ye was faced with an ultimate loss of purpose and sank into another spiritual crisis.†   (source)
  • And then he would lie back in the grass and gaze thoughtfully at the figure eights of the fireflies as if he too were pondering this essential enigma.†   (source)
  • Back in darkness, Lale ponders his fate.†   (source)
  • In fact, we were so afraid for her, we felt we had no time to stop and ponder the most appropriate response.†   (source)
  • We sat there, just a few feet from each other, both silent, pondering an absence.†   (source)
  • He pondered.†   (source)
  • I chewed and pondered.†   (source)
  • She had been pondering the words all night and had not seen a code.†   (source)
  • He could only sit and stare out the window into the rain and blackness, pondering words like Flare and sickness and experiment and Scorch and WICKED.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be pondering his answer.†   (source)
  • She stood still, pondering, one foot on the board and one on the ground.†   (source)
  • Luke pondered that.†   (source)
  • He moved a cardboard box filled with curled and damp parish papers and took out a carton of orange juice, an apple, a box of bread sticks, and a block of cheese, and he ate while pondering how and whether he would seek out Scarlett—he would Dreamwalk, perhaps, since that was how she had come to him ... He headed outside, was on his way to sit on the grey wooden bench, when he saw something and he hesitated.†   (source)
  • "What must it be like?" he pondered.†   (source)
  • While Art stood there, pondering this, Abel Martinson dragged the hatch cover from the hold and called for him to come over.†   (source)
  • "Now, let me see," Mrs Whatsit pondered.†   (source)
  • He ponders what he should do in a thoughtful way.†   (source)
  • The shepherds and kings were riveted to this demonstration of what Mary pondered in her heart; the cows did not move.†   (source)
  • He ponders this for a second, then shakes his head like I got the answer to his question wrong.†   (source)
  • We left the farmer to ponder his slain sheep and went back to town, plodding across wet hills in the slate-gray dusk.†   (source)
  • Ponder it, if you would, while you wait upon the queen.†   (source)
  • He pondered Mr. Ludsbury's exclusion from the plot of the fat old men as we watched his figure, reedy even in his winter wraps, move away from us.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes and pondered my next move.†   (source)
  • As he pondered this, he heard footsteps in the hall, followed by a timid knock at the half-open door.†   (source)
  • Zethes pondered the problem.†   (source)
  • When at last Lola spoke her tone was reflective, as though she were pondering subtle currents of counter-arguments.†   (source)
  • He would spend years pondering this conundrum.†   (source)
  • But a step like this should not be taken without due pondering.†   (source)
  • "Mom won't be home till late," I pondered aloud.†   (source)
  • He spun away from her, scratching his hat, pondering.†   (source)
  • He felt he ought to add something to that, but for the moment the guard seemed to have his mind occupied pondering that much.†   (source)
  • Like almost all men of learning, he spent a good deal of his time pondering the invisible world, especially since he had himself encountered a witch in his parish not long before.†   (source)
  • Agonizing second followed agonizing second as the officer seemed to ponder what to do with me.†   (source)
  • DELPHI/HERMIONE: Let's ponder it together.†   (source)
  • I remember pondering the phrase "new life" as if it actually might reveal some hint of where he'd gone; for after I'd badgered and clamored and pestered my mother for about a week, she'd finally consented to let me see the letter myself ("well, all right," she said resignedly, as she opened her desk drawer and fished it out, "I don't know what he expects me to tell you, you might as well hear it from him").†   (source)
  • In bed at night, as I ponder my many sins and exaggerated shortcomings, I get so confused by the sheer amount of things I have to consider that I either laugh or cry, depending on my mood.†   (source)
  • She stopped for a moment as if to ponder an idea.†   (source)
  • I am pondering these things when the medic with the freckles and red hair who has been working on me answers my question.†   (source)
  • "What happened?" he asks in that voice I recognize, the voice he uses when pondering another move.†   (source)
  • It couldn't last, of course, but like I say, just for those few months, we somehow managed to live in this cosy state of suspension in which we could ponder our lives without the usual boundaries.†   (source)
  • She wants the image of me and the wild running river, my hair ruffling in the breeze as I look out onto the horizon and ponder our life together.†   (source)
  • After a cold dinner of bread and cheese, he wrapped himself in blankets and fell asleep, pondering what had occurred.†   (source)
  • For several moments, the Baudelaires stood and pondered the mysterious way their lives were going, and they were thinking so hard about it that they jumped a little when somebody spoke.†   (source)
  • I did not hate the young man; I did not see him as the enemy; I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty.†   (source)
  • Let us stalk other landscapes as we ponder the wonders of the third month of the year, my boy.†   (source)
  • There was silence for a minute while Mack pondered what Jesus had said.†   (source)
  • Everyone seemed to be in a different world or seemed to be pondering something.†   (source)
  • Her past had been like her present—intolerable—and since she knew death was anything but forgetfulness, she used the little energy left her for pondering color.†   (source)
  • Deoch spent several long moments pondering his answer, giving the question more serious consideration than I'd expected.†   (source)
  • Dede ponders, rewinding back to the exact moment when she belted that ball.†   (source)
  • I pondered, staring, trying to isolate the change.†   (source)
  • Gogol slouches in his seat and ponders certain awkward truths.†   (source)
  • I wonder what happened to it.... He pondered it a minute before I brought him back to the subject at hand.†   (source)
  • That's why, as my teaching career progressed, I started to ponder this question: If I could help individual students, one on one, as they worked toward achieving their childhood dreams, was there was a way to do it on a larger scale?†   (source)
  • You see, being human takes in just about everything, since we want to know about space and time and this world and the next, questions I'm pretty sure none of my English setters have ever really pondered.†   (source)
  • Like everything I seen, she seen, and she pondering it.†   (source)
  • She pondered that a moment.†   (source)
  • Yet I have spent every day of my life pondering them, since before you were born.†   (source)
  • I had spent more time than the average child pondering unfortunate accidents of birth.†   (source)
  • She had pondered the question from a hundred different angles, had been pondering it in fact for the six months before the broken arm.†   (source)
  • DAWN WAS BREAKING in the city and still they had not been discovered and Saeed and Nadia sat in the kitchen and pondered what to do.†   (source)
  • I sat quietly and pondered the question as I glanced out the front window at the few soldiers standing at attention.†   (source)
  • They have no need to 'ponder,' like humans; they have no need to reason out conclusions.†   (source)
  • turn me, but over and over, committed as I was, I pondered the great risk of our questions, the risk of any question that is truthfully asked; for the answer must carry an incalculable price, a tragic danger.†   (source)
  • But by that fall of 1776 I didn't have much time for pondering over Sam or Mr. Heron.†   (source)
  • Franklin pondered that for a moment.†   (source)
  • Perhaps this was how much it would cost the Americans to buy this magnificent car, Zhang and I pondered.†   (source)
  • Master Sergeant James W. Ponder was there, with Sergeants First Class Marcus Muralles of Shelbyville, Indiana, and Mike Russell of Stafford, Virginia.†   (source)
  • I was still 8 years old when we moved to Boston, a sometimes serious-minded child who occasionally pondered all the changes that had come into my life.†   (source)
  • After some pondering, he also left out Henrik Vanger.†   (source)
  • "My name means sea," I pondered aloud.†   (source)
  • I bit my lip, pondering my other options.†   (source)
  • I ponder this.†   (source)
  • We found him behind his church, pondering his little stack of tin.†   (source)
  • She pondered over formulas, a bottle warmer, over the rows of bottles with their selections of nipples, over bibs.†   (source)
  • You are said to be dying and yet are separate from the dying, can ponder it at your leisure, literally see on the X-ray photograph or computer screen the horrible alien logic of it all.†   (source)
  • Dad pondered a moment.†   (source)
  • They both pondered a moment.†   (source)
  • Hank stopped there long enough for me to ponder what it meant, the threat now coming his way, then drove back down the hill.†   (source)
  • Then he went on to tell me that he had spent a year pondering the question "How does this happen to a man like Adam?"†   (source)
  • And the more they pondered it, the more impossible it seemed.†   (source)
  • As more years went by, Ghosh might have pondered the effect of the letter on Stone—perhaps it would in fact be a disservice to send it to him.†   (source)
  • As I ponder this issue, I feel quite deep and philosophical.†   (source)
  • Mattie pondered this as her hands plunged into the soapy dishwater, and she mechanically washed bowls and silverware.†   (source)
  • With the check written but not yet signed, he swiveled back in his desk chair and seemed to ponder.†   (source)
  • After recording them in my journal I'd flip through these pages, reading them to myself, pondering each idea, and rejecting them.†   (source)
  • Adela, flattered, began to ponder on the truth of the statement.†   (source)
  • I've been pondering.†   (source)
  • He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much.†   (source)
  • I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head.†   (source)
  • Increasingly worried over Fort Washington, the commander pondered whether to pull the troops out while there was yet time.†   (source)
  • They had spent many days pondering whether or not she should accept the invitation to this cocktail party.†   (source)
  • They would do well to read this book and ponder the fate of Dresden, where 135,000 people died as the result of an at attack with conventional weapons.†   (source)
  • Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life's curse.†   (source)
  • He must have been pondering what to do with me when he felt the damp on his trousers.†   (source)
  • Farmer had promised to find the drugs to treat Señora Brigida, and he'd pondered her case, looking down at Lima from the airplane.†   (source)
  • If you are the sort of person who likes guessing games, you may wish to spend the next few moments pondering which of the preceding explanations seem to have merit and which don't.†   (source)
  • Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments.†   (source)
  • They've all been read, studied, pondered over.†   (source)
  • Stopping abruptly, he scratched his chin, as though pondering a difficult question.†   (source)
  • I pondered my eyeglasses.†   (source)
  • He ponders this before answering with a curt reply.†   (source)
  • When Alfie wasn't around, I would sit on the floor of our apartment and ponder what I had done, astonished by how far afield I had wandered and how willing I had been to abandon myself on the journey.†   (source)
  • That's what I want you to ponder, Lucien.†   (source)
  • I'm pondering the perfect regularity of the rectangular boxes they're using to build the wall when I recognize them.†   (source)
  • From Frodo's mind the bright morning — treacherously bright, he thought — had not banished the fear of pursuit; and he pondered the words of Gildor.†   (source)
  • Holly stopped and fell silent, as though pondering on what he remembered.†   (source)
  • While I pondered this revolting development, Nudge elbowed me in the ribs.†   (source)
  • If you must ponder it, then do it alone at isolated periods with long intervals in between, so as not to drive yourself bats.†   (source)
  • Matasaip was silent, pondering the news.†   (source)
  • Our letters to one another read like journal entries, long, pondering pieces written to have company during the writing as much as to really share any information bulletins about ourselves.†   (source)
  • For a long moment, I pondered what next to say.†   (source)
  • She spent the next two minutes pondering over her options, then narrowed it down to French Riviera or Caribbean Cream.†   (source)
  • They would have a month to stare at the ocean and ponder their private thoughts before they arrived in San Diego on February 14, 1944.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 2 THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity?†   (source)
  • She circles Barrius as his skinny limbs begin to seize, pausing between each lash, no doubt pondering how she can make the next one more painful than the last.†   (source)
  • THEY SAT on flat rocks early the next morning, pondering.†   (source)
  • No, it may be best to ponder these things in private.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus pondered this for a while, then realized the enormity of the student's misconception of what accreditation was all about.†   (source)
  • What was going on, I pondered.†   (source)
  • But as the Court ponders this wretched irony and injustice, let it consider another question of equal if not greater injustice.†   (source)
  • He pondered it for a week, and returned with three objects: a swatch of black cloth, a watch, and a piece of granite.†   (source)
  • Colonel Jacobs pondered this and came up with a solution: I could wear long trousers and have my own food, if I agreed to be put in isolation.†   (source)
  • "It's times like this," added Conklin, planting his cane on the floor and rising, "when I seriously ponder man's inhumanity to man.†   (source)
  • Has the committee—or the Authority—pondered the fact that most—effectively all, I should say—considered the fact that inhabitants of Luna are physically unable to live on this planet?†   (source)
  • She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north.†   (source)
  • The attache pondered the question.†   (source)
  • As a child, I probably lost a solid year of sleep pondering that enormous mystery: Bone-still under the covers I lay awake picturing my future of eternal nothingness and wracked by the tragedy of no more Me.†   (source)
  • Uncle Axel pondered for a bit.†   (source)
  • But now he pondered the quality of his life.†   (source)
  • For a moment they were silent, pondering the imponderable.†   (source)
  • Jace pondered for a moment.†   (source)
  • I stop thinking about what he would say to me and start pondering what I would say to him.†   (source)
  • He clicked off, pondered this, glanced down at the note, pondered that.†   (source)
  • General Lee quietly ponders Longstreet's information.†   (source)
  • Now she pondered her image with seriousness.†   (source)
  • Even my mother pondered this phenomenon, this perfectly clean creased shirt like the eye of a storm, still and untouched.†   (source)
  • He pondered.†   (source)
  • When Kay and I began to ponder becoming less active in the Duck Commander business, we offered its management to Jase, who had been most deeply involved in the company.†   (source)
  • Tyler lay back down and, with more information, started to ponder on the central subject that had been occupying his mind ever since the end of' the aborted Maple Syrup War: How to get the Terran system up to Glatun standards in the shortest possible period.†   (source)
  • I'd always pondered whether there was a way for our kind to survive without preying on humans.†   (source)
  • I pondered awhile, searching my memory: then it came to me: the man who had called after Raja's death.†   (source)
  • This might come as a shock to you, Mr. Allon, but I've never pondered that question before.†   (source)
  • While he gave out the assignments, I pondered the distances these frustrated flower children had come.†   (source)
  • ROS and GUIL ponder.†   (source)
  • She pondered over the shocking contrast between the life of a field hand in Dorchester County, Maryland, and the life she had known and enjoyed in Philadelphia and in Cape May, New Jersey.†   (source)
  • He pondered that one for a moment.†   (source)
  • Ponders.†   (source)
  • Blue Elk pondered, worrying something in his mind.†   (source)
  • He pondered.†   (source)
  • For some days I pondered the problem, and then one morning, while I was preparing some lemmings and meadow mice as specimens, inspiration struck me.†   (source)
  • A man may spend many years pondering a sentence of the scholar you call Confucius.†   (source)
  • Black leaders pondered.†   (source)
  • Pray, do not ponder overlong.†   (source)
  • I lingered there for a long time, pondering the future, which now seemed as misty and as obscure as those smog-bound horizons that stretched beyond the meadows of New Jersey.†   (source)
  • The messages that were meant to "go with him"—and which did—the farewell from his mother on the day of her death; and the doctor's following words that thechild's own life would be short; the admonition from his Aunt Penina to bear his cross and murmur not—made a sum that he had been left to ponder over from the time he had learned to read.†   (source)
  • She drops it on her bed, and stands pondering.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND Have you ever pondered just what would naturally happen to the earth if the sun stood still?†   (source)
  • He pondered about this sensation, which filled him completely, as he was slowly walking along.†   (source)
  • "Lengths for dresses," she pondered, "but luggage is checked on the way, so this is dangerous unless they are tacked up to look like clothes.†   (source)
  • The second was Rollin's History, the same History which nine-year-old John Quincy Adams had pondered over many years before.†   (source)
  • "The Reservation, huh?" the sergeant pondered.†   (source)
  • The nature of our punishment, if it be discovered, is not for the human heart to ponder.   (source)
    ponder = reflect deeply on a subject
  • He would often borrow Thorin's map and gaze at it, pondering over the runes and the message of the moon-letters Elrond had read.   (source)
    pondering = thinking deeply or carefully
  • And already, so strong was the bewilderment of the treasure upon him, he was pondering whether by the help of Dain he might not recapture the Arkenstone and withhold the share of the reward.   (source)
    pondering = wondering or thinking
  • Thorin pondered these words.   (source)
    pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
  • I forced myself to ponder upon the sound of the crescent as it should pass across the garment...   (source)
    ponder = think deeply or carefully
  • Jake took a sip of cold coffee as both pondered the next question.†   (source)
    pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
  • She took a deep breath and pondered the question.†   (source)
  • He counted, pondered, worried, then said, "I guess I can do it.†   (source)
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