All 7 Uses

contemplate
in
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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...If love does a secret thing always, it is to reach backward, to a time that could not be knownfor it makes a history of the sorrow and the dream it has contemplated in some instant of recognition.†
Story 2.18
She stamped her foot, nothing happened, then she approached softly, and down on hands and knees contemplated him.†
Story 3.28
They looked at Easter's mouth and at the eyes where they were contemplating without sense the back side of the light.†
Story 3.29
Nevertheless a face from nowhere floated straight into that helpless irony and contemplated the world of his inward gaze, a dark full-face, obscure and obedient-looking as a newsprint face, looking outward from its cap of dark hair and a dark background-all shadow and softness, like a blurred spot on Jones Street.†
Story 3.31
She saw Mr. Nesbitt's fat, hurt back as he wandered as if lost and stood a long time contemplating and cheering up Nina Carmichael.†
Story 3.32
For a space Mama opened her eyes and contemplated her screaming daughter as she would the sunset behind her.†
Story 4.39 *
And it lifted the soul-for a thing like crossing the ocean could depress it-to sit in the sun and contemplate among companions the weakness and the mystery of the flesh.†
Story 4.39

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