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pensive
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synonyms: cogitative ???
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Definition:reflecting, deeply in thought
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The Countess Lidia Ivanovna was a tall, stout woman, with an unhealthily sallow face and splendid, pensive black eyes.
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I was very pensive upon the subject of my present condition, when reason, as it were, expostulated with me the other way, thus: “Well, you are in a desolate condition, it is true; but, pray remember, where are the rest of you? Did not you come, eleven of you in the boat? Where are the ten? Why were they not saved, and you lost?
Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe
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my mother is too sensible to sing dirges, but she would get pensive, she would remove herself, and I would have none of it, needful thing that I was.
Gillian Flynn. Gone Girl, p.221 (2012)
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A young woman, whose pensive face and fashionable veils did not suggest a local origin,
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1] Swann’s Way
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“And do you remember,” Natasha asked with a pensive smile, “how once, long, long ago, when we were quite little,
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 07 (Book Seven) . Simon & Schuster
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I discerned a soft-featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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while I paused from my sewing, because my fingers quivered at this spectacle with a sentiment of unavailing and impotent anger, not a feature of her pensive face altered its ordinary expression.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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The thought startled me out of my pensive immobility.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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"Try and keep calm, Paris, you'll tough this one out, too, one way or another." She stood there, phone in hand, pensive.
Melania G. Mazzucco. Limbo (Virginia Jewiss translation), p.252 (2014)
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