All 10 Uses

ponder
in
The Good Earth
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Sometimes, working over the clods in the fields, he would fall to pondering about her.†
Chpt 2 *

pondering = thinking deeply or carefully about
He pondered for a while and suddenly a thought came to him and he smote the side of his head with his palm.†
Chpt 5

pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
But Wang Lung thought of his land and pondered this way and that, with the sickened heart of deferred hope, how he could get back to it.†
Chpt 14
But Wang Lung was fearful of the picture and pondered as to why a foreigner had given it to him, whether or not some brother of this foreigner's had not been so treated and the other brethren seeking revenge.†
Chpt 14
As for the other jewels, he pondered this way and that, and at last he decided he would go to the great house and see if there were more land to buy.†
Chpt 16
Wang Lung pondered over this reply.†
Chpt 16
Wang Lung was surprised, after he had pondered a while, for he saw truth in what she said.†
Chpt 22
But Wang Lung had not pondered the matter sufficiently and it was not to be decided so quickly as this and he called out, "No, and I have decided nothing.†
Chpt 23
He picked up his pipe from the ground slowly and pondered about his third son.†
Chpt 30
And Wang Lung pondered and he looked at this son of his and he saw the suffering young face, and he thought to himself, "Now I have given this son everything, even his life.†
Chpt 32

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