ruminate
Definition: To meditate on; ponder
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The count of Monte-Cristo - By Alexandre Dumas
...True, " replied Danglars; " the French have the superiority over the Spaniards, that the Spaniards ruminate, whilst the French invent . " "...
The Return of the Native - By Thomas Hardy, John William Cunliffe
...But, being a mother, it was inevitable that she should soon cease to ruminate upon her own condition ....
Tarzan of the Apes - By A.C. McClurg & Company, Edgar Rice Burroughs
...Again he faced the notice and read it through, and doubtless would have turned off again to ruminate upon it had not the sailor grasped him roughly by the collar and howled into his ear . "...
Middlemarch - By George Eliot
...there, " said Mr Farebrother, who for some reason seemed more inclined to ruminate than to speak . "...
The Magnificent Ambersons - By Booth Tarkington, Arthur William Brown, Doubleday, Page & Company, Country Life Press
...`` Name, " the voice repeated, and seemed to ruminate ....
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - By Laurence Sterne, Charles Whibley, Tristram Shandy, George Saintsbury
...The world enjoys other pleafures, fays he, as they do that of fleep, without tafling or feeling it as it flips and pafies by--We fhould ftudy and ruminate upon it, in order to render proper thanks to him who grants it to us--- for this end I caufe myfelf to be difturbed in my fleep, that I may the better and more fenfibly relifh it--And yet I fee few, fays he again, who live with lefs fleep when need requires; my body is capable of a firm, but not of a violent and fud-den agitation--I evade of late all violent exercifes--I am never weary with walking--- but from my youth, I never liked to ride upon pavements ....
Tom Jones - By Henry Fielding
...Iu fact, when Partridge came to ruminate on the relation he had heard from Jones, he could not reconcile to himself that Mr. Allworthy should turn his son, -LRB- for so he most firmly believed him to be, -RRB- out of doors, for any reason which he had heard assigned ....
History of Prose Fiction - By John Colin Dunlop, Henry Wilson
...these were the acts and personages on which his boyish thoughts were at liberty to ruminate for ever . "...
Edgar Huntly, or Memoirs of a sleep-walker - By Charles Brockden Brown
...Harassed by fatigue and pain, I had yet power to ruminate on that series of unparalleled events that had lately happened ....
Sketches by Boz - By Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank, Frederick Barnard
...We were beginning to ruminate on the possible causes of such an uncommon appearance, when a general exclamation from all the boys in the crowd of `` Here 's the wan ! "...
Desperate Remedies - By Thomas Hardy
...-- Why, this is what he does next : ruminate on what he has heard of women 's romantic impulses, and how easily men torture them when they have given way to those feelings, and have resigned everything for their hero ....
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's - By Charles Asbury Stephens
...In consequence, probably, of eating so much indigestible bark, first one, then another, " lost her cud, " that is, was unable to raise her food for rumination at night; and as cattle must ruminate, we soon had several sick animals to care for ....
The Plays and Poems - By William Shakespeare
...And never suffers matter of the world Enter his thoughts,--save such as doth revolve And ruminate himself,--shall he be worshipp 'd Of that we hold an idol more than he ?...
The Ring and the Book - By Robert Browning
...235 I turned alike from the hill-side zig-zag thread Of way to the table-land a soldier takes, Alike from the low-lying pasture-place Where churchmen graze, recline and ruminate,--Ventured to mount no platform like my lords 240 Who judge the world, bear brain I dare not brag--But stationed me, might thus the expression serve, As who should fetch and carry, come and go, Meddle and make i ' the cause my lords love most--244 The public weal, which hangs to the law, which holds By the Church, which happens to be through God himself ....