All 10 Uses of
ponder
in
David Copperfield
- He seemed to find an immense fund of reflection in this circumstance, and sat pondering and inwardly whistling for some time.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Mr. Murdstone took no heed of me when I went into the parlour where he was, but sat by the fireside, weeping silently, and pondering in his elbow-chair.†
Chpt 7-9
- Doctor Strong regarded him with a puzzled and doubting look, which almost immediately subsided into a smile that gave me great encouragement; for it was full of amiability and sweetness, and there was a simplicity in it, and indeed in his whole manner, when the studious, pondering frost upon it was got through, very attractive and hopeful to a young scholar like me.†
Chpt 16-18
- …my possible wants during my month of trial; that Steerforth, to my great disappointment and hers too, did not make his appearance before she went away; that I saw her safely seated in the Dover coach, exulting in the coming discomfiture of the vagrant donkeys, with Janet at her side; and that when the coach was gone, I turned my face to the Adelphi, pondering on the old days when I used to roam about its subterranean arches, and on the happy changes which had brought me to the surface.†
Chpt 22-24
- Bless my heart alive!' said Mr. Omer, pondering, 'how she loves that child!'†
Chpt 28-30
- 'For the Church?' said I, still pondering, between whiles, on Uriah Heep.†
Chpt 34-36
- Whensoever, slowly pondering over my letter, I lifted up my eyes, and meeting the thoughtful face of Agnes, saw it clear, and beam encouragement upon me, with its own angelic expression, I was conscious presently of the evil eye passing me, and going on to her, and coming back to me again, and dropping furtively upon the knitting.†
Chpt 37-39
- As she stood in her garden, holding up her little lantern to light me back, I thought her observation of me had an anxious air again; but I was too much occupied in pondering on what she had said, and too much impressed — for the first time, in reality — by the conviction that Dora and I had indeed to work out our future for ourselves, and that no one could assist us, to take much notice of it.†
Chpt 43-45
- I pondered on those words, even while I was studiously attending to what followed, as if they had some particular interest, or some strange application that I could not divine.†
Chpt 43-45
- Some future traveller, visiting, from motives of curiosity, not unmingled, let us hope, with sympathy, the place of confinement allotted to debtors in this city, may, and I trust will, Ponder, as he traces on its wall, inscribed with a rusty nail, 'The obscure initials, 'W.†
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(ponder) to think deeply or carefully about something