All 5 Uses of
pensive
in
Jane Eyre
- Not a tear rose to Burns' eye; and, while I paused from my sewing, because my fingers quivered at this spectacle with a sentiment of unavailing and impotent anger, not a feature of her pensive face altered its ordinary expression.†
p. 65.2pensive = appearing deep in thought
- She was pensive a few minutes, then rousing herself, she said cheerfully "But you two are my visitors to-night; I must treat you as such."†
p. 85.5 *
- All three looked at each other, and all three smiled —a dreary, pensive smile enough.†
p. 411.1
- And then she would pout like a disappointed child; a pensive cloud would soften her radiant vivacity; she would withdraw her hand hastily from his, and turn in transient petulance from his aspect, at once so heroic and so martyr-like.†
p. 424.6
- One morning at breakfast, Diana, after looking a little pensive for some minutes, asked him, "If his plans were yet unchanged."†
p. 456.1
Definition:
appearing deep in thought -- typically looking sad or serious