" Reflectively chewing a clove, the Ritualistic organist reclines on the pauper grave of a former writer for the daily press, and cogitates upon his companion's leaning to Spiritualism; while the other produces matches and lights their lanterns.

"Pardon, mon Père; cet homme qui vient de Minóokfaudrait le coucher de suitemais où, mon Dieu, où?" While the Superior cogitated, "How-do, Brother Etienne?" said Nicholas, and they nodded.

Muckluck, cogitated the Boy, will believe more firmly than ever that, if a man doesn't beat a girl, he doesn't mean business.

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the hilarity of a wedding in his heart, he cogitated for some time in silence, when, having thought a preliminary question or two necessary, he broke it with saying "Everything, I suppose, master, is settled between the young people?" "Everything, I take it, Peter.

On pushing one pair aside, the other Sunday, we cogitated considerably as to what we should see inside.

she had cogitated, and the decision had been for postponement.

Here these old, unsceptred, discrowned, and sky-fallen potentates "cogitate in their watery ooze," and in "the shady sadness of vales,"sometimes visited by their successors for counsel or concealment, or for the purpose of establishing harmony amongst them.

" He cogitated.

So she cogitated and mused and philosophized in her small way, till she came to the conclusion that the pelican not only had the destiny of Mary in its hands, but was under an obligation to save her from that death which was so terrible to her.

While Miriam thus cogitated, Cicely Drane passed the open door of her room, and seeing the queer old-fashioned dress upon the bed, she stopped, and asked what it was.

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Yet no sense of fear that projected itself into her busy brain as she cogitated over the task before her held her back.

Telling our two supporters to hold themselves ready for an attack, Marble and I left them, to cogitate and commence the manner of proceeding.

Though some unhappy predecessor in the same cell had scribbled on the wall, "A prison is a cannie place, Though viewed with reprobation, Where cheats and thieves, and scants o' grace, Find time for cogitation," he did not find that he could properly cogitate or meditate, even if he had been, which he never was, a thinker.

I cogitated on him all day.

"If your third drink brings out the real man, I should recommend you to stick to two, Bonnett," said the young man, and went away to cogitate.

The banker believed him, and renewed part of the advance for a short period; but he began, to cogitate in this wise: 'Here is a farmer of long experience, born of a farming family, and a hardworking fellow, and, more than that, honest.

Indeed, the facility with which he declares matters to be incogitable, which these two and other philosophers not only cogitate but maintain as truth, is to us truly surprising.

Concerning this lady and her children the poor old mother-in-law continually cogitated, having a common little photographic likeness of her in which she tried to find the wifely love and contentment and all the other endearing qualities she had heard of.

" It was natural enough that he should cogitate over the best way of managing his first meeting with them; but he had not been an hour in his uncle's house before he found that Grand was shortly going to give a great dinner party for the bride mainly consisting of relatives and very old friends.

During dinner, though Valentine talked and laughed, he could not help stealing a minute now and then to gaze at the bride, till John, darting a sudden look at him, brought him to his senses; but he cogitated about her, though he did not repeat the offence.

An event of huge importance appeared to loom in the horizon of each: he cogitated over its probable conditions.

On that occasion, however, the fact was certainly present to his thought; "But," he cogitated, "we had no quarrels.

" He sat down to cogitate.