All 4 Uses
contemplate
in
A Thousand Acres
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- We looked at each other, both contemplating the absurdity of this question in the circumstances, and smiled.†
p. 165.3 *
- When I contemplate this memory, I feel on the verge of remembering what childhood felt like, that its hallmark was the immediacy of one's every physical sensation, and also the familiar strangeness of one's parts—feet and hands, especially, but also chest, knees, stomach.†
p. 277.6
- No "I," like Daddy, that inflated with each declaration, but a diminishing point, losing himself more and more bitterly in contemplating the target.†
p. 306.9
- It was easier, from these artifacts, to imagine Rose by herself, in this room, contemplating her past, planning her future, reckoning up what it was possible to recover.†
p. 363.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(contemplate) consider or ponder
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)