One had a tiny flame—a sly, meditative candle.
Willie was lolling in his father's chair, gloomy, meditative, apparently idle.
She had no talent for such work, which demands the vocal rather than the meditative temperament, and the apparent futility of her labours would have disgusted and disheartened her had she not been sustained and urged forward by the still active influence of Mynors and the teachers' meeting.
The sense of calm increased, and, steeped in this meditative calm, Anna from the open window gazed idly down the perspective of the road, which ended a mile away in the dim concave forms of ovens suffused in a pale mist.
" Some meditative minutes passed.
His natural attitude was not the meditative, nor his natural mood the sentimental; impressionable he was as dimpling water, but, almost as water, unimpressible: the breeze, the sun, moved him—metal could not grave, nor fire brand.
Under the porch, a girl of nine or ten sat knitting, and an old woman reclined on the housesteps, smoking a meditative pipe.
But it ceased there, and Mr Deane became unusually silent and meditative during his luncheon.
The successful Yellow candidate for the borough of Old Topping, perhaps, feels no pursuant meditative hatred toward the Blue editor who consoles his subscribers with vituperative rhetoric against Yellow men who sell their country, and are the demons of private life; but he might not be sorry, if law and opportunity favoured, to kick that Blue editor to a deeper shade of his favourite colour.
" "Uncle," said Tom, looking up suddenly from his meditative view of the tablecloth, "I don't think it would be right for my aunt Moss to pay the money if it would be against my father's will for her to pay it; would it?
That's wonderful, now," added Mr Tulliver, turning his head on one side, and giving his horse a meditative tickling on the flank.
This was his particular reason for remaining silent for a short space after his last draught, and rubbing his knees in a meditative manner.
" Dorothea smiled, and Celia looked rather meditative.
Limp, a meditative shoemaker, with weak eyes and a piping voice.
" Dorothea sat almost motionless in her meditative struggle, while the evening slowly deepened into night.
Rosamond became serious too, and slightly meditative; in fact, she was going through many intricacies of lace-edging and hosiery and petticoat-tucking, in order to give an answer that would at least be approximative.
" was one of his thoughts for three mornings in the meditative process of shaving, when he had begun to feel that he must really hold a court of conscience on this matter.
The banker's speech was fluent, but it was also copious, and he used up an appreciable amount of time in brief meditative pauses.
The second extant book of Zhao, Xian Fo tongyuan ("On the Common Origins of [the Teachings of] Transcendentals and Buddhas"), is devoted to the so-called "Inner Alchemy," an esoteric discipline focusing on the attainment of immortality via respiratory and meditative practices.
Recently, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said he never eats breakfast, only dinner - and that he skips all food altogether on Saturdays - as part of a routine that he claims is meditative.
