Pensively she twirled the unaccustomed instrument in her jewelled fingers, fancying her smooth cheek clothed with a manly beard.
Wondering what could have caused such an unwonted state of things, she gazed pensively round the room, and suddenly remembered all about it!
Kenneth was standing in the bower at the foot of my garden, looking pensively on the distant landscape, which was bathed in the rich glow of the setting sun.
Archie went out into the street, and began to walk pensively down a now peaceful Ninth Avenue.
Archie took his tobacco and walked pensivelyback to the hotel.
She, wrapped up in a coarse peasant-cloak, pensively gazes into the cheerless smoke and holds her worn and muddy boots to the smouldering wood in the vain hope of warmth.
Having lent a dutiful arm up the stairs to his now beaming relative, Sir Adrian came down pensively and entered the library.
The emperor leaned pensively on his hand, seemingly oppressed with some superstitious melancholy forebodings.
Overcome with grief, she dropped her paddle, sat pensively down in her shallop, and left it to follow its course down the current.
Hinpoha spread it out on her knee and read: "I was sitting in the woods rather pensively the other day when I suddenly became aware of two merry eyes fixed on me from the ground beside me.
Seeing Sahwah sitting pensively on the dock one day she fastened a rope to the launch and bade her hang on to it and then drove the launch around in swift circles.
Agnes laid aside her work, and replied, folding her hands upon one another, and looking pensively at me out of those beautiful soft eyes of hers: "I believe he is going to enter into partnership with papa.
And, as he gazed, she leaned above them, shaming them with her loveliness and seeming to direct her eyes pensively toward his own window.
He was not nearly so impetuous and fiery and bigoted a youngster as then; he was more serene, more Apollonian, more pensively thoughtful.
A slim young girl leaned against the trunk of an algarroba, pensively brushing the calf of one nut-brown leg with the toes of the other.
He paused and looked pensively out on the uniformed groups of National Guard lounging and smoking in the white courtyard of Fontveille stone.
A young man was sitting on a fallen tree trunk, pensively smoking a cigarette, his hat pulled low on his brow, and his eyes on the road.
Awhile she gazed pensively up at the highest summits of the mountain, now crimson against a saffron sky, for at eventide Spain flaunts her national colours in the very heavens.
She glanced at him as he leaned pensively on the low wall, looking down into the lake, with the level rays of sunshine on his comely face and figure.
Amy was in an injured mood, and, shrouded in a great blue veil, pensivelyreclined in her corner as if indifferent to everything about her.
While she stood there Gabriella thought pensively of many things.
When she had finished her letter, she placed the check inside of it, and then sat for a minute pensively watching the girl in the green hat, whose face paled and reddened while she wrote to her lover.
She remembered regretfully that Archibald and Fanny would be away all summer; and then from thinking of her children, she passed by almost insensible degrees of despondency to meditating pensively about Arthur Peyton.
Elisaveta's blue eyes looked gently and pensively at the irritated Piotr and at his deliberately inimical adversary Stchemilov.
She became pensively sad, and asked: "What of the sleeper in the grave?
Madge's high spirits seemed suddenly to desert her, and she looked pensively across the glimmering water to the tall mansions of Hanover Terrace.
A girl was sitting on a bench near the shore, pensively watching the sun drooping over the misty ramparts of Kew Bridge; she held a closed book in one hand, and by her side lay a sketching-block and a box of colors.
Sometimes, as her lover sat holding her hand, she would look pensively in his face without saying a word, until his heart was overcome; and after these transient fits of intellectual exertion, she would sink again into lethargy.
As Antonio was duteously pacing by the side of his instructor, he would often catch a glimpse of the daughter, walkingpensively about the alleys in the soft twilight.
I was wandering pensively through the streets which no longer delighted my eyes, when chance led my stops into the magnificent church of the Annunciata.
As I was rambling pensively through a neighboring meadow, in which I had many a time gathered primroses, I met the very pedagogue who had been the tyrant and dread of my boyhood.
He returnedpensively home, full of magnificent ideas of buried riches.
Meanwhile Colonel Burr had returned to the lighted rooms, and it was not long before his quick eye espied Madame de Frontignac standing pensively in a window-recess, half hid by the curtain.
For a moment his head fell pensivelyforward upon his breast.
For all this, the young girl in question, as she sat with her head pensively inclined, seemed to give but little thought to those luxuriant tresses that, undulating over her white shoulders, lay in clusters upon the mat.
Her companion pensively contemplated an infinity of arid and hansom-less to-morrows.
I always liked the Viscount," said Mrs. Carew, pensively looking at the letter she held in her hand.
Mr. Morgan moved in his seat, stretching one arm out, while he pensively rubbed his clean-shaven chin and looked critically across the table.
She stood pensively in the hall for a moment or two after she had closed the door, and would have gone up to her own room had she not heard a step at the head of the stairs.
Pensively she looked across the distant fields, whence came the hum and whir of reaping.
The hacendero sighed, but made no further reply, and his head fell pensively on his chest.
Dona Anita fell pensively back on a species of clumsy sofa, accidentally left by the side of the table.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pensively" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
