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  • After this, Alice was silent for a minute or two, pondering.   (source)
    pondering = reflecting deeply on a subject
  • For all of that day, Mother pondered it.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • They think we don't remember our pasts or ponder our futures.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • She gave me a serious look, as if imparting a meaningful life lesson I should ponder and absorb.†   (source)
  • He ponders this as he sits on the bus, trying to deny how mixed his feelings about it are.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Lily pondered that.†   (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)
  • Edgar pondered.†   (source)
  • Kitty ponders.†   (source)
  • As we stood pondering our predicament, an enthusiastic young girl came leaping out of her house and said something.†   (source)
  • A brief silence followed as everyone pondered this.†   (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)
  • Let us ponder this deeply.†   (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)
  • We sat there, just a few feet from each other, both silent, pondering an absence.†   (source)
  • I continued to play Galaga while pondering these questions.†   (source)
  • I chewed and pondered.†   (source)
  • She had been pondering the words all night and had not seen a code.†   (source)
  • She stood still, pondering, one foot on the board and one on the ground.†   (source)
  • …and now, sitting on the marble bottom of the bubble-filled bath, he heard a chorus of eerie voices singing to him from the open egg in his hands: "Come seek us where our voices sound, We cannot sing above the ground, And while you re searching, ponder this: Wove taken what you'll sorely miss, An hour long you'll have to look, And to recover what we took, But past an hour— the prospect's black, Too late, it's gone, it wont come back" Harry let himself float back upward and broke the…†   (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)
  • He pondered.†   (source)
  • Luke pondered that.†   (source)
  • As he pondered this, he heard footsteps in the hall, followed by a timid knock at the half-open door.†   (source)
  • "Now, let me see," Mrs Whatsit pondered.†   (source)
  • Agonizing second followed agonizing second as the officer seemed to ponder what to do with me.†   (source)
  • I pondered this.†   (source)
  • Everyone seemed to be in a different world or seemed to be pondering something.†   (source)
  • Owen pondered.†   (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)
  • "Mom won't be home till late," I pondered aloud.†   (source)
  • When at last Lola spoke her tone was reflective, as though she were pondering subtle currents of counter-arguments.†   (source)
  • "What must it be like?" he pondered.†   (source)
  • I closed my eyes and pondered my next move.†   (source)
  • I ponder this.†   (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)
  • But a step like this should not be taken without due pondering.†   (source)
  • Gogol slouches in his seat and ponders certain awkward truths.†   (source)
  • Ponder it, if you would, while you wait upon the queen.†   (source)
  • He spun away from her, scratching his hat, pondering.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He ponders this for a second, then shakes his head like I got the answer to his question wrong.†   (source)
  • Zethes pondered the problem.†   (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 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)
  • DELPHI/HERMIONE: Let's ponder it together.†   (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)
  • She stopped for a moment as if to ponder an idea.†   (source)
  • Mother pondered the idea in silence.†   (source)
  • After a cold dinner of bread and cheese, he wrapped himself in blankets and fell asleep, pondering what had occurred.†   (source)
  • He pondered it a minute before I brought him back to the subject at hand.†   (source)
  • I had spent more time than the average child pondering unfortunate accidents of birth.†   (source)
  • "What happened?" he asks in that voice I recognize, the voice he uses when pondering another move.†   (source)
  • I pondered, staring, trying to isolate the change.†   (source)
  • Like everything I seen, she seen, and she pondering it.†   (source)
  • Master Sergeant James W. Ponder was there, with Sergeants First Class Marcus Muralles of Shelbyville, Indiana, and Mike Russell of Stafford, Virginia.†   (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)
  • Let us stalk other landscapes as we ponder the wonders of the third month of the year, my boy.†   (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)
  • We found him behind his church, pondering his little stack of tin.†   (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)
  • He would spend years pondering this conundrum.†   (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)
  • I am pondering these things when the medic with the freckles and red hair who has been working on me answers my question.†   (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)
  • At this very moment, no doubt, she is pondering with regret decisions made in the far-off past that have now left her, deep in middle age, so alone and desolate.†   (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)
  • There was silence for a minute while Mack pondered what Jesus had said.†   (source)
  • Deoch spent several long moments pondering his answer, giving the question more serious consideration than I'd expected.†   (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)
  • I pondered it as I drove back and forth to work.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus pondered this for a while, then realized the enormity of the student's misconception of what accreditation was all about.†   (source)
  • While Art stood there, pondering this, Abel Martinson dragged the hatch cover from the hold and called for him to come over.†   (source)
  • They have no need to 'ponder,' like humans; they have no need to reason out conclusions.†   (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)
  • They've all been read, studied, pondered over.†   (source)
  • Dede ponders, rewinding back to the exact moment when she belted that ball.†   (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)
  • After some pondering, he also left out Henrik Vanger.†   (source)
  • But by that fall of 1776 I didn't have much time for pondering over Sam or Mr. Heron.†   (source)
  • Adela, flattered, began to ponder on the truth of the statement.†   (source)
  • I bit my lip, pondering my other options.†   (source)
  • With the check written but not yet signed, he swiveled back in his desk chair and seemed to ponder.†   (source)
  • I pondered my eyeglasses.†   (source)
  • Dad pondered a moment.†   (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)
  • I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head.†   (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)
  • And the more they pondered it, the more impossible it seemed.†   (source)
  • She pondered over formulas, a bottle warmer, over the rows of bottles with their selections of nipples, over bibs.†   (source)
  • Holly stopped and fell silent, as though pondering on what he remembered.†   (source)
  • After recording them in my journal I'd flip through these pages, reading them to myself, pondering each idea, and rejecting them.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Franklin pondered that for a moment.†   (source)
  • He had known several men who blew their heads off, and he had pondered it much.†   (source)
  • He ponders this before answering with a curt reply.†   (source)
  • He clicked off, pondered this, glanced down at the note, pondered that.†   (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)
  • Perhaps this was how much it would cost the Americans to buy this magnificent car, Zhang and I pondered.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER 2 THE WRONG SIDE OF THE RIVER Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity?†   (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)
  • "I've been pondering.†   (source)
  • I stop thinking about what he would say to me and start pondering what I would say to him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • And yet nothing turned me from our quest and nothing could. 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)
  • Dunbar pondered in silence for a few moments.†   (source)
  • Matasaip was silent, pondering the news.†   (source)
  • Yet I have spent every day of my life pondering them, since before you were born.†   (source)
  • "My name means sea," I pondered aloud.†   (source)
  • They had spent many days pondering whether or not she should accept the invitation to this cocktail party.†   (source)
  • As I ponder this issue, I feel quite deep and philosophical.†   (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)
  • While I pondered this revolting development, Nudge elbowed me in the ribs.†   (source)
  • That's what I want you to ponder, Lucien.†   (source)
  • THEY SAT on flat rocks early the next morning, pondering.†   (source)
  • The whole collection creates a context in which to ponder your own personal philosophy.†   (source)
  • She pondered that a moment.†   (source)
  • What was going on, I pondered.†   (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)
  • Increasingly worried over Fort Washington, the commander pondered whether to pull the troops out while there was yet time.†   (source)
  • She spent the next two minutes pondering over her options, then narrowed it down to French Riviera or Caribbean Cream.†   (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)
  • For a long moment, I pondered what next to say.†   (source)
  • They both pondered a moment.†   (source)
  • She ponders the transmigrations from the southern latitudes, the millions moving north.†   (source)
  • For a moment they were silent, pondering the imponderable.†   (source)
  • Not that she dissects and ponders the dusty mechanical bits of her miserable life's curse.†   (source)
  • Mattie pondered this as her hands plunged into the soapy dishwater, and she mechanically washed bowls and silverware.†   (source)
  • Uncle Axel pondered for a bit.†   (source)
  • Stopping abruptly, he scratched his chin, as though pondering a difficult question.†   (source)
  • Clary looked up from pondering the question of how a tuberose was different from a regular rose, to see Simon looking at her with puzzlement in his brown eyes.†   (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)
  • I'm pondering the perfect regularity of the rectangular boxes they're using to build the wall when I recognize them.†   (source)
  • But as the Court ponders this wretched irony and injustice, let it consider another question of equal if not greater injustice.†   (source)
  • No, it may be best to ponder these things in private.†   (source)
  • The attache pondered the question.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • General Lee quietly ponders Longstreet's information.†   (source)
  • But now he pondered the quality of his life.†   (source)
  • He pondered.†   (source)
  • Even my mother pondered this phenomenon, this perfectly clean creased shirt like the eye of a storm, still and untouched.†   (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)
  • I'd always pondered whether there was a way for our kind to survive without preying on humans.†   (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)
  • "This might come as a shock to you, Mr. Allon, but I've never pondered that question before."†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Now she pondered her image with seriousness.†   (source)
  • While he gave out the assignments, I pondered the distances these frustrated flower children had come.†   (source)
  • ROS and GUIL ponder.†   (source)
  • Black leaders pondered.†   (source)
  • He pondered.†   (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)
  • She drops it on her bed, and stands pondering.†   (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)
  • Blue Elk pondered, worrying something in his mind.†   (source)
  • Ponders.†   (source)
  • DRUMMOND Have you ever pondered just what would naturally happen to the earth if the sun stood still?†   (source)
  • I've still so recently recovered that I have much pondering to do.†   (source)
  • Herb pondered the logic of that for a moment, then let his rage dissolve into a grin.†   (source)
  • A man may spend many years pondering a sentence of the scholar you call Confucius.†   (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)
  • He pondered that one for a moment.†   (source)
  • I pondered awhile, searching my memory: then it came to me: the man who had called after Raja's death.†   (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)
  • I forced myself to ponder upon the sound of the crescent as it should pass across the garment...   (source)
    ponder = think deeply or carefully
  • She had pondered in her young mind what death entailed.†   (source)
  • Jimmy pondered this; then he asked if anyone else had caught the virus.†   (source)
  • I didn't ponder that very long, though, because then I noticed his body … or bodies.†   (source)
  • The symbols of death inspire Masons to ponder how better to lead their lives while on this earth.†   (source)
  • We twirled our noodles simultaneously as he seemed to ponder how best to respond.†   (source)
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