All 10 Uses of
ponder
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- He laid his head down on his threadbare dirty pillow and pondered, pondered a long time.†
Chpt 1.3pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
- He laid his head down on his threadbare dirty pillow and pondered, pondered a long time.†
Chpt 1.3
- He pondered and rubbed his forehead, and, strange to say, after long musing, suddenly, as if it were spontaneously and by chance, a fantastic thought came into his head.†
Chpt 1.5
- "All right, I'll come," said Lizaveta, still pondering, and she began slowly moving away.†
Chpt 1.5 *pondering = thinking deeply or carefully about
- He felt all at once that it would be loathsome to pass that seat on which after the girl was gone, he had sat and pondered, and that it would be hateful, too, to meet that whiskered policeman to whom he had given the twenty copecks: "Damn him!"†
Chpt 2.2pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
- Raskolnikov pondered.†
Chpt 2.3
- "Perhaps I've been unfair to myself," he observed gloomily, pondering, "perhaps after all I am a man and not a louse and I've been in too great a hurry to condemn myself.†
Chpt 5.4pondering = thinking deeply or carefully about
- Raskolnikov took his cap and went out of the room, still pondering.†
Chpt 6.1
- He pondered a long while and at last smiled again, but his smile was sad and gentle.†
Chpt 6.2pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
- He pondered again and again, went over Porfiry's visit; no, he hadn't been, of course he hadn't.†
Chpt 6.3
Definition:
to think deeply or carefully about something