All 3 Uses
ponder
in
The Pit and the Pendulum
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- He who has never swooned, is not he who finds strange palaces and wildly familiar faces in coals that glow; is not he who beholds floating in mid-air the sad visions that the many may not view; is not he who ponders over the perfume of some novel flower—is not he whose brain grows bewildered with the meaning of some musical cadence which has never before arrested his attention.†
ponders = thinks deeply or carefully about
- I forced myself to ponder upon the sound of the crescent as it should pass across the garment...
*ponder = think deeply or carefully
- I pondered upon all this frivolity until my teeth were on edge.†
pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
Definitions:
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(1)
(ponder) to think deeply or carefully about something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)