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Definition
to think again and again about something
- Why that should have happened to her which had not happened to other women remained an insoluble question by which she expressed her perpetual ruminating comparison of the past with the present.4.2 -- Book 4 Chapter 2 -- The Torn Nest Is Pierced by the Thorns (23% in)
- Much rumination had Mr. Tulliver on these puzzling subjects during his rides on the gray horse; much turning of the head from side to side, as the scales dipped alternately; but the probable result was still out of sight, only to be reached through much hot argument and iteration in domestic and social life.2.2 -- Book 2 Chapter 2 -- The Christmas Holidays (88% in)
- "Why, Lucy had got a collar on this blessed day," continued Mrs. Pullet, with her eyes fixed in a ruminating manner, "as I don't say I haven't got as good, but I must look out my best to match it."5.5 -- Book 5 Chapter 5 -- The Cloven Tree (14% in)
- The eyes in the parlor were not turned toward the bridge just then, and the group there was sitting in unexpectant silence,—Mr. Tulliver in his arm-chair, tired with a long ride, and ruminating with a worn look, fixed chiefly on Maggie, who was bending over her sewing while her mother was making the tea.5.6 -- Book 5 Chapter 6 -- The Hard-Won Triumph (11% in)
- Was not Stephen Guest right in his decided opinion that this slim maiden of eighteen was quite the sort of wife a man would not be likely to repent of marrying,—a woman who was loving and thoughtful for other women, not giving them Judas-kisses with eyes askance on their welcome defects, but with real care and vision for their half-hidden pains and mortifications, with long ruminating enjoyment of little pleasures prepared for them?6.1 -- Book 6 Chapter 1 -- A Duet in Paradise (94% in)
- Lucy was silent for two or three minutes, looking away and ruminating.6.9 -- Book 6 Chapter 9 -- Charity in Full-Dress (96% in)
- He felt this, and was silent again for a little while, ruminating much on the possible forms in which he might put a question.7.1 -- Book 7 Chapter 1 -- The Return to the Mill (88% in)
- When Maggie had left him, Dr. Kenn stood ruminating with his hands behind him, and his eyes fixed on the carpet, under a painful sense of doubt and difficulty.7.2 -- Book 7 Chapter 2 -- St. Ogg's Passes Judgment (86% in)
There are no more uses of "ruminate" in The Mill on the Floss.
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