She pored profoundly over this question, and was steeped in red ink and with the end of her pen bitten off and the floor white with torn-up plans before she had answered it.
Ingeborg had poredover it for days, making careful squares with a ruler and doing all the principal words in red ink, her hair touzled by the stresses of thinking out, and her cheeks flushed.
Be assured that both poets had pored night and day upon her--in all her aspects--and that she had revealed herself fully to both.
The people whined over the smut in wheat, and pored pale on the Monthly Agricultural Report.
During the past few days he had pored for hours at a time over the "Lives of the Saints," reading again and again their denunciations of women, hoping to strengthen his purpose to prove that the love of woman could be pure.
During these days she prayed much, and poredfor long hours at a time over her Bible.
The wealthy man who wished to build a residence pored over James Gibbs' A Book of Architecture, or Abraham Swan's The British Architect.
To aid him in designing the Capitol, he called in the ablest architect and builder in the colony, Henry Cary, and day after day the pair pored over the drawings.
He pored over it, studied it, loved it, never doubting that now he had the key to all the wonders and mysteries of Nature.
The wind was still high, and as Yan pored over the tracks he heard for the first time in broad daylight the appalling screech.
He walked on the sands, lonely and desolate; he paced about the great rooms of the stone house, oppressed and heavy-hearted; he shut himself up in his library and poredover books in vain.
And such a geographer as you might be, with your taste for travel and the Hakluyt Society's publications you have pored over for years!
Walker Farr sat in his narrow chamber and poredover interlined manuscripts.
Reader, have you everpored days and nights over the pages of Snorro?
After lunch the large-scale chart of the estuaries was brought down, and we pored over it together, mapping out work for the next few days.
A sort of buoyant fatalism possessed me as I finished my notes and poredover the stove.
And has not St. John himself produced evidence enough that those who pored over the Scriptures most could not identify Jesus as the Person in whom their prophecies were to meet?
We found how hard it was for the Pharisees to make out a conception of the Christ, though they pored continually over the Scriptures, and had a series of interpreters to assist in divining the sense of them.
Hawke, as he pored over the letter on his way to the Hotel Binda.
Lemuel's head whirled; the air seemed to darken around him, as he pored again upon the note, and turned it over and over.
Lemuel stretched the note between his hands, and pored so long upon it that the clerk began to tap impatiently with his finger-tips on the register.
Farther exploration might have broken the spell of mystery; so in silence they pored upon the gloom, until the rhythmic calm and contemplation were destroyed by a belated wagon passing over the bridge behind them.
She read the first page, her heart beating violently as she pored over the figures, her eyes dim and clouded with the trouble of her brain.
He was short and stout, with a pale complexion, and sunken faded eyes, as of a man who had spent the greater part of his life by candle light, and had pored much over ledgers and bank books, share lists and prospectuses.
I dare say you have carried your plans and sketches, and what not, down to Depford Beach, and pored over them until almost morning.
Half incredulous, half frightened, she pored over the engraving which reproduced so strangely the image she had seen in Maxwell Davison's mysterious ball.
She pored over it; then looked Ian in the eyes, her own eyes large with a bewilderment touched with fear.
With the old religious awe, she pored over her mother's poems in the scrap-book, and clasped her mother's red satin Spanish girdle about her in a farewell embrace.
She waited while he pored over road-maps of the state.
Again and again, as I have pored over the scenes of my memory, I have asked myself: What can life be about?
I pored over her spidery epistles till my head ached.
The mystic scrolls over which I had once pored with such intenseness, were now flung aside; what could they teach me?
Again I pored over the mystic scroll--again I called on the spirits with spell and with sign.
Adèle poredover the map and the Michelin Guide; Berry turned himself into a mechanical doll; and I maintained a steady issue of orders until my throat was sore.
Adèle and I pored over the print, while out of our bickering Berry plucked such instructions as his fancy suggested, and, alternately advancing and retiring, cruised to and fro about a gaunt church.
Thus he pored over the engineer's voluminous handy-book of nature; thus must, too, have pored my grandfather and uncles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pored" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
