Stronger than all, there was the regard for a friend's moral improvement, sometimes called her soul, which was likely to be benefited by remarks tending to gloom, uttered with the accompaniment of pensive staring at the furniture and a manner implying that the speaker would not tell what was on her mind, from regard to the feelings of her hearer.
It represented a very lovely woman, with a mild and pensive countenance, justifying, so far, the expectations of its new observer; but they were not in every respect answered, for Catherine had depended upon meeting with features, hair, complexion, that should be the very counterpart, the very image, if not of Henry's, of Eleanor's—the only portraits of which she had been in the habit of thinking, bearing always an equal resemblance of mother and child.
Arbuthnot, who seemed pensive, "Don't you see that if somebody else does the ordering it frees us?
Lynde laughed comfortably over her mild joke, but Anne remained pensive.
And at the same time he was indulging in a pensive soliloquy.
" Valancy's elfin eyes lost their mocking glitter and became pensive and sorrowful.
After the almost two-year-old Bum was featured on the cat-lovers blog Love Meow, images of his pensive expression began flying around the Internet.
E gaze –and gazed –but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.
Then he raised his bow to quiet the crowd and said , not boastfully, but in a quiet, pensive, reverent tone, "You know, sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
Very little was said about the matter to Ib, and he did not refer to it; his mother, however, noticed that he had grown very silent and pensive.
The same evening, upon going to bed, the pastor noticed his wife sitting there quiet and pensive.
They approach the caravan; the young merchant sits pensive and motionless, thinking of his beautiful wife, dreaming, in the land of the blacks, of his white lily beyond the desert.
