All 6 Uses of
ponder
in
Great Expectations
- He turned it about in his mouth much longer than usual, pondering over it a good deal, and after all gulped it down like a pill.†
Chpt 2 *
- Under the weight of my wicked secret, I pondered whether the Church would be powerful enough to shield me from the vengeance of the terrible young man, if I divulged to that establishment.†
Chpt 4
- So, leaving word with the shopman on what day I was wanted at Miss Havisham's again, I set off on the four-mile walk to our forge; pondering, as I went along, on all I had seen, and deeply revolving that I was a common laboring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night, and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way.†
Chpt 8
- After I had pondered a little over this encouraging sentiment, I asked Mr. Jaggers if I could send for a coach?†
Chpt 20
- Herbert, who had been looking at the fire and pondering, here said that something had come into his thoughts arising out of Wemmick's suggestion, which it might be worth while to pursue.†
Chpt 46
- I sometimes derived an impression, from his manner or from a whispered word or two which escaped him, that he pondered over the question whether he might have been a better man under better circumstances.†
Chpt 56
Definition:
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(ponder) to think deeply or carefully about something