Now Miss Jemima, as I have before observed, had a mild and pensive expression of countenance; and she would have been positively pretty had the mildness looked a little more alert, and the pensiveness somewhat less lackadaisical.
All around them was the soft still dusk, and a mysterious pensiveness in the night.
The pensiveness and inertia of the tropical afternoon had fallen like a sad mood over the exotic world.
With the hour of departure a drop came in their high spirits, a prevailing pensiveness in the face of farewells.
The expression of pensiveness deepened, increased by a sudden, disturbing thought.
She encountered a slight figure and a pale face, the habitual pensiveness of which was now deepened by anxiety, and which was shaded by locks wherein silver had as yet but little share.
At the present time, however, pensiveness prevailed, and increased the contrast which Helen's beauty always presented to the attractions of her cousins.
And while I feel the deepest pensiveness in beholding where you stand, with but a step between you and death, I cannot but emphatically congratulate you.
Nell was by me now, her hand rested lightly on my shoulder, and, looking up, I saw her eyes on my face in mingled pensiveness and challenge.
Far different was the dreamy pensiveness with which Mr. and Mrs. Clifford looked back upon their vanished youth and maturity.
The days passed like bright smiles, in which, however, lurked the pensiveness of autumn.
Now, Miss Jemima, as I have before observed, had a mild and pensive expression of countenance, and she would have been positively pretty had the mildness looked a little more alert, and the pensiveness somewhat less lackadaisical.
She took her place on the dais, and the expression of pensiveness which appears on the face of the portrait became intensified.
And the look of pensiveness on Her Grace's face--observe it, most faithful of limners.
The extreme pensiveness of her mind had hindered her from perceiving that any one was near; but the little covert under which she was placed being open on both sides, he had a full view of every thing she did.
How could I have judged of her beauty or pensiveness else?
They were all very polite and attentive to me, but none more so than Major Sanford and his lady, who jointly strove to dissipate the pensiveness of my mind, which I found it impossible to conceal.
Time, which effaces every occasional impression, I find gradually dispelling the pleasing pensiveness which the melancholy event, the subject of my last, had diffused over my mind.
The pensivenesswhich pervades the Russian songs has also been considered as a remnant of that gloom, necessarily impressed on the Russian character during two centuries of the most cruel oppression.
Indeed, it is to their love songs, principally, that the general remark on the pensiveness of Russian songs and airs is applicable.
She had done well for herself--she was thinking while he concluded as silently within himself that the slight pensiveness tempering the expressive face was its loveliest dress.
She looked up at Richard with a delightful effect of pensiveness from beneath the sweeping brim of her cavalier hat.
