Both Uses of
pensive
in
This Side of Paradise
- ** On Thursday, therefore, he walked pensively along the slippery, shovel-scraped sidewalks, and came in sight of Myra's house, on the half-hour after five, a lateness which he fancied his mother would have favored.†
Chpt 1.1 *pensively = with deep thought
- Tom was standing in the centre of the room, pensively relighting a cigar-stub.†
Chpt 1.3
Definition:
appearing deep in thought -- typically looking sad or serious