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pensive
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
(Edited)

Or Phoebe's soft small hand suddenly on her knee, at a moment when Caroline was pensive or distracted, absorbed by the world and its concerns.
p. 162.9

pensive = appearing deep in thought
Phoebe, at thirteen, was short for her age, chubby, still impulsive and impassioned, slow to learn but moving from joy to pensiveness to sadness and back to joy with an astonishing speed.
p. 221.8 *

pensiveness = deep thought
Rosemary nodded, pensive.
p. 313.1

pensive = appearing deep in thought
Then she grew pensive.
p. 327.4
"I almost missed the train," he said, pensive.
p. 330.2
She had her hand tucked around his elbow and was leaning down to speak to him, and he was nodding, pensive, frowning, looking across the gardens, beyond the gates, at whatever she wanted him to note.
p. 332.3

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