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Example sentences for "ruminated"

Lexicographically close words:
rumblings; rumen; ruminant; ruminants; ruminate; ruminating; rumination; ruminations; ruminative; rummage
  1. Only house to let in the Square," ruminated Brown, as he stood reading the bill for perhaps the hundredth time.

  2. He sat down and ruminated a long time over the strange history which had been unfolded to him.

  3. It most generally is thirsty weather for Bill," he ruminated alone as the men crowded within.

  4. Women's queer cattle, though," he ruminated slowly, moving his head up and down.

  5. Yet, ruminated the young artist as he neared the Ryder residence, the American people had but themselves to blame for their present thralldom.

  6. John Ryder pondered long and deeply and the more he ruminated the stronger the conviction grew upon him that the girl was right and he was wrong.

  7. This feeling did I experience in all its fulness as I ruminated upon my bettered fortunes, and felt within myself that secret instinct that tells of happiness to come.

  8. I was alive to all the horrors of detection, and ruminated without ceasing, on the behaviour which it would be proper, in case of detection, to adopt.

  9. As I sat alone, I ruminated on these incidents.

  10. When I ruminated upon these events, my soul was suspended in wonder and awe.

  11. Evidently the woman was diverting your attention while the man entered Northrop's room by the window," ruminated Craig, as we stood for a moment in the outside doorway.

  12. I will have to have some excuse," ruminated Kennedy.

  13. The point is, then," ruminated Kennedy, "what happened in the interval between the ringing of the alarm and the arrival of the special officers?

  14. Wouldn't be s'prised if that Heath chap came from New York," ruminated Eleazer.

  15. The more I ruminated upon my prospects, the less I liked them.

  16. I reckon I overplayed it," he ruminated aloud, while he waited for Mike Moran to give him another of the same.

  17. We got to adopt ourselves to new ways, old Sure-Shot," he ruminated aloud.

  18. Now I can understand why Orpheus was torn to pieces," ruminated Straws, mournfully surveying the offending pipe.

  19. He certainly called him that," ruminated the visitor.

  20. I believe the secret of Diana is to switch her thoughts off herself on to other people," ruminated Mrs. Fleming.

  21. A queer go, this sudden intimacy, ruminated the young man.

  22. In our chilly aesthetic air, ruminated Alfred, where utility leads beauty by the nose, the spectacle of an architect giving reign to his fancy and conceiving such an exotic pile as the hyphenated-hotel is a refreshing one.

  23. She bid me burn the paper, and ruminated upon who could be employed to represent to the editor that he must answer at his peril any further such treasonable paragraphs.

  24. I ruminated all the rest of the way upon my dear father's recent charge and permission.

  25. I suppose this is growing up," ruminated Avelyn, as she crossed the yard and went into the orchard.

  26. They'll come in sections," ruminated Andy.

  27. It's an awful fix to be in," ruminated Andy with a sigh of real distress.

  28. Bob said nothing more, but next day he ruminated long in the snow-still forest at Eight, trying to apportion in his own mind the twelve days' work.

  29. Orde ruminated over this for some time, sipping slowly between puffs at his cigar.

  30. It was an opinion which he himself had held and ruminated upon.

  31. Ruminated on the dangers of my explanation right and left, and it made me unusually nervous.

  32. For a couple of minutes nothing was said, and the melancholy lover, with his chin resting on his chest, ruminated over his unhappy affair.

  33. Experiments in ghosts," ruminated David, who believed Leighton capable of anything.

  34. I don't know as I could get along without Sister," ruminated Mother Atterson, shaking her head.

  35. And so, that much is accomplished," ruminated Hiram, as he drove home.

  36. Thus illogically ruminated the West Pointer; not seeing that the good is not bad merely because it may be abused; not seeing that Centralism is sure to be more corrupt than Federalism.

  37. Accordingly the Doctor turned his back on the Lieutenant and ruminated mineralogy.

  38. The Chief ruminated over these remarks a few seconds before he spoke again.

  39. He ruminated ruefully over his discomfiture at the hands of the sharp-tongued Mrs Hargrave.


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