1261 examples of pondering in sentences

He had a reflective look, as if pondering many things.

Now while Beltane stood yet pondering her words, came Roger to his side, to touch him humbly on the arm.

At length, after much pondering, he came to see that if, instead of the spool, he were to fix on the axis a small cogged wheelthat is, a wheel with teethand then make these cogs fit into the cogs of a much larger wheel, the small wheel, which would turn once with every turn of the water-wheel, must turn a great many times before it could turn the big wheel once.

While Timon was pondering what the end of these things should be, his mob encountered another cheering for Alcibiades, and playing pitch and toss with drachmas and didrachmas and tetradrachmas, yea, even with staters and darics.

Meanwhile Mr. Washington was pondering deeply upon George's peculiar behaviour towards him.

" The other man had listened intently, and when the story was finished he sat silent for a time, as if considering and pondering over what he had heard.

Père Jerome was walking to and fro, with his hands behind him, pondering these matters.

They are worth pondering.

" There are strange things and worth pondering in all these.

Captain Baumgarten, heavy with his repast, lay back in his chair looking up at them through the clouds of his tobacco smoke, and pondering over the strange chance which had sent him, a man from the Baltic coast, to eat his supper in the ancestral hall of these proud Norman chieftains.

" Sofia answered nothing to that, for a long time she said nothing, but sat pondering....

Who was to attend upon him, now that the caretaker was laid low? While Lord Hartfield lingered on the threshold of the door that led from the old house to the new, pondering this question, there came the sound of wheels on the carriage drive, and then a loud ring at the hall door.

" Grace looked up at him no more; but walked on in silence, pondering many things.

Pondering that question, Mr. Grimm's excellent teeth clicked sharply together and he rose.

Isak dumb once more, for a long space, busied with his own affairs, pondering, looking round for a place to put all his goods and implements; it was hard to find room for them all.

He is something given to superstition and a pondering upon things; even his rustic wariness is innocent in its way.

When she had ended he kept the same look during an interval of silent pondering.

The glad obedience I was wont to see Kindling in every eye, is smother'd now In discontent and gloom; each, pondering, weighs The changes which a future day may bring, And serves the childless king, because he must.

While she was peevishly expressing her mind on the subject, Mr. Gradgrind was gravely pondering upon the matter.

" The owner of the voice hung up the receiver with a snap, and left me pondering.

They had weighed its words in the balancethey had tested them as by fire; and, finally, after long pondering, they adopted the constitution.

"No cigarettes," said Mr. Russell, after pondering for a moment on this disappointment.

Then Mr. Tutt returned to his own library at the house on Twenty-third Street and paced up and down before the antiquated open grate, inhaling quantities of what Mr. Bonnie Doon irreverently called "hay smoke," and pondering deeply upon the evils that men do to one another, until the dawn peered through the windows and he bethought him of the all-night lunch stand round the corner on Tenth Avenue, and there sought refreshment.

She crept back noiselessly and lay pondering of many things.

I cannot kill him!" For a moment he remained there, pondering.

1261 examples of  pondering  in sentences