| 单词 | pensiveness |
| 例句 | On tracks like “I Neva Seen” and “Enterprise,” it’s clear the body is in motion, but there’s an overlay of deep soothing and pensiveness, an almost new age energy. Boxing Up the Past: The Year in 16 Pop, Rap, Soul and Jazz Sets 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z When the movement became an active dialogue between soloist and ensemble, Mr. Lisiecki’s playing mixed youthful impetuousness with mature pensiveness. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Spacek’s characteristic pensiveness is also on display in the new film. The miracle of Sissy Spacek – why it's time to rediscover her genius 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z Her pensiveness was ultimately balanced by the relaxed ebullience of a performer who has nothing left to prove. Music Review: Jane Monheit at Birdland 2013-05-24T20:16:15Z That may well have affected these artists, who bring a combination of sublimity and pensiveness, wildness and spontaneity, to scores that span two decades of Beethoven’s career. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z And in Lulu’s moments of pensiveness and quiet fear, Ms. Petersen sings with a tender vulnerability that catches you off guard. Review: A Masterful ‘Lulu’ at the Met 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Re; Chris Hemsworth--"he does have.. a natural pensiveness bordering on melancholy that creates a nice frisson with his bulging muscles and heartthrob looks." ‘Blackhat,’ a Cyberthriller Starring Chris Hemsworth 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z There is a guilelessness to Dunst, a sort of offbeat pensiveness that makes her an interesting presence, both on screen and off. Kirsten Dunst: ‘The movie industry is in a weird place – creatives blossom on TV’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z It may be pensiveness or it may be dread or sadness from some emotional loss that can’t be helped. I’m a lonely country girl 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z Ms. Lamsma, who first worked with her countryman Mr. van Zweden in 2007, played splendidly, with crisp clarity and brightly radiant sound, conveying both the rhapsodic fervor and intriguing pensiveness of the music. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Screaming Reflection on War 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Their understated chemistry — his pensiveness and her spunk — lends emotional shadings to a drama that's otherwise unambiguous to a fault, complete with narration that sums up the obvious. 'Fort McCoy' a heartfelt WWII memory piece 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z In any given conversation, her saucer eyes suggest a dozen different moods – pensiveness, outrage, hilarity. Samantha Morton: ‘Maybe I was the first person to publicly answer Weinstein’ 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The big screen at Stadium Australia cut to Kerr barely a minute into the match, and went back to her several times during the game as she looked at various stages of pensiveness. 'Goosebumps' - New Zealand and Australia's night of emotion 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z It’s a moment of isolation and pensiveness that is very grounded in being a true leader.” Billie Eilish, Barack Obama and Brad Pitt portraits to be auctioned for COVID relief 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z Hutchison’s adoption of the name is an avowal of his timidity, and an affirmation that insecurity and pensiveness don’t need to be character flaws. Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison: a songwriter who found humanity in our flaws 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z “Only Vienna produced that peculiar style of behaviour,” Mann wrote, “French suavity with a touch of German pensiveness and a faint tinge of Oriental eccentricity.” The Real-Life Muse Behind Wes Anderson's 'Grand Budapest Hotel' 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z While he sat thus, came a formal tap at the door, and his son entered, looking sublimely good and respectable, pensive with a pensiveness on which one grows comfortably fat. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The habitual expression of her face was a sweet pensiveness; but sometimes she was irritable and a little petulant. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z I have a feeling as if the Crusaders and the Elizabethan lady and gentleman on the monuments would miss us when we go away,' said Peggy, relapsing into pensiveness once more. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z There was a pensiveness in her manner, which rendered her figure more interesting and touching than usual. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z But with all his grandeur of looks—I cannot call it anything else—there is an air of pensiveness and melancholy about him that is never absent. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z At the end of the story, Lydia's eyes fell slowly, and the interest that had enlivened her face relaxed into pensiveness. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Violet raced about the house and the garden, teasing Dando to distraction—all her pensiveness dispelled, murmuring “Florence” at every turn. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z The lieutenant was completely sunk in thought and longing, when suddenly he was roused from his pensiveness by the words of the song,-- "I grieve, I grieve, my heart is sore." With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Valentine's deportment was characterized by habitual pensiveness and reserve, occasionally broken by sudden unaccountable fits of excitement, strange flights of fancy, and startling, frightful paroxysms of passion, having many of the features of incipient insanity. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Selim shivered all at once and woke up from his pensiveness. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z Roy found her very charming under the light veil of pensiveness this secret solicitude cast over her. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z At the present time, however, pensiveness prevailed, and increased the contrast which Helen's beauty always presented to the attractions of her cousins. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z Vigneau took it again, and looked into it for a moment with maudlin pensiveness, as though he could scarcely realise that it was really the bottom he gazed at. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z It gave her an air of pensiveness, of submission, the more striking in a person of so much character. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z She confided to me a secret which no doubt accounts for her rather noticeable pensiveness. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z I hear," and after a moment of pensiveness: "Oh, celestial miracle for which, with my forehead in the dust, I rendered thanks to the mother of our Savior. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z 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. Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-17T02:00:19.780Z Some hazy fairy swam above him in the heavenly ether, and showered down upon him the sweetest pearls of pensiveness. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z She was from that time delivered from the violence of tempestuous sorrow, and sunk into silent pensiveness and gloomy tranquillity. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z The expression was at once amiable and intellectual—mellowed or blended, however, with a pensiveness which is usually, but most erroneously, called melancholy. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 And the neophyte seemed, while he murmured over the burthen, as if about to imitate the pensiveness of De Morla. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico There was a sort of gentle, resigned peace in her attitude, with much pensiveness and sadness. Small Souls I have known some fiery broils of glorious frenzy; I have oft tasted of revery; whence comes pensiveness; whence comes sadness; whence all delicious poetic presentiments;—but thou, Grief! art still a ghost-story to me. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z "Because you are a fool," observed Mizzi with a gentle pensiveness. The Gay Adventure A Romance She perceived a strange pensiveness drawing over his face like a shadow. Majesty A Novel It is rhetoric in the leader of extempore prayer; studied inflexions in the conductor of liturgical service; animal excitement, or sentimental pensiveness, or assent which is merely vocal, among the worshippers. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus She shows no pensiveness of countenance, nor in her apparel nor behaviour. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History But now she found that this unforeseen visit of Lucy had completely routed all business capacity in her mercurial son; fairly capsizing him again into, there was no telling what sea of pleasant pensiveness. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z He was feeling that touch of pensiveness which comes with a sense of vanishing pleasures. The "Genius" His mother sighed in amiable pensiveness, saying, "This is a mystery to me, my son." John March, Southerner To those who mistake occasional pensiveness for melancholy, it might seem strange to say that my Aunt Mary was always happy. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings That this tendency to pensiveness left its trace on his features may be seen in most of his portraits, among others in that by Isaac Oliver, of which we give a reproduction. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare His eyes were dark hazel, as clear, brilliant, and tender as a girl’s, and brimming full of a pensiveness which seemed both loving and melancholy. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 If ever in autumn a pensiveness falls upon us, as the leaves drift by in their fading, may we not wisely look up in hope to their mighty monuments? Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' Then a pensiveness succeeded, and resolve became fixed. Coquette In this her prime of existence and bloom of beauty they but subdued vivacity to pensiveness. Shirley I was aroused from my pensiveness, and recalled to the remembrance of my whereabouts, by the noise of a torrent, and I gratefully admired nature in her gigantic productions. Adventures in the Philippine Islands Though the mother-in-law’s presence was less oppressive than formerly, there was now a pensiveness, an air of departed glory about it, that was not cheerful. That Mother-in-Law of Mine My uncle, with all his temperamental pensiveness, was my aunt's stay and cheer in the fits of depression which she paid with for her usual gaiety. The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse Her whole attitude was one of deep pensiveness. The Law-Breakers Attracted to me by my uniform, he soon learned my business, and, after a few moments of pensiveness, to my surprise, he told me to inscribe his name among my recruits. Three Years in the Federal Cavalry The gayety with which his pensiveness is occasionally broken, seems more than any thing else in his works to have cost some effort. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 There, you see her pensiveness has found a voice. Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 She was not quite so youthful looking as she had been before her recent trouble, but the thinner cheeks and the slightly deeper eyes added to the pensiveness and delicacy of her countenance. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel There is in it the chastened pensiveness of one to whom all things now ‘do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o’er man’s mortality.’ Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 And a little pensiveness mingled for a few days with her enjoyment of Appledore. Nobody The pensiveness that had rested on her face, when he had looked across the car at her, had deepened almost into sadness. A Christmas Accident and Other Stories His involuntary look of amazement changed the pensiveness of her delicate face to animation, and she returned his smile. A Man of Two Countries He had grown accustomed to these moments of pensiveness on his mother's part. The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story "But when I was to marry Jack you did not seem to mind," said Georgina, looking at me with that new pensiveness she had learned of late. Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Shall we find in their artwork any of that pensiveness and yearning for the dead, which fills the chants of their tragedy? The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing Usually suffused with a gentle pensiveness not unbecoming, the ardour of his welcome had given him on this occasion the martial bearing of a heroic young Achilles. A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 Among the antique statues of which the Louvre is full, there is one of Polyhymnia, which is celebrated above the rest for an expression of melancholy pensiveness not usually found among the ancients. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century The solemn stillness, the almost noiseless motion of the boat, the livid shades surrounding the place, all contributed to the mood of pensiveness and meditation which was rapidly stealing upon them. The Loyalist A Story of the American Revolution The sensibility and even pensiveness of her demeanor in the first instance, render her archness and gayety afterwards, more graceful and more fascinating. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical But it is a pensiveness of pure, quiet joy, of those who have come near to Nature and enjoyed the peace of her holy places. Peeps At Many Lands: Australia "It's a fine, unspoiled part of the world," remarked the lawyer with unusual pensiveness, setting his hat farther back from his forehead and looking into space. The Opened Shutters In the Manuscript it reads: Immers’d in pleasing pensiveness I rode Down vistas dim, and glades of forest green, Where doves and nightingales had their abode. A Bibliography of the writings in Prose and Verse of George Henry Borrow Shall we find in their art-work any of that pensiveness and yearning for the dead which fills the chants of their tragedy? Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 "Pardon my abstraction," he said, a shade of pensiveness still lingering in his voice. The Diamond Coterie But there was also a pensiveness, a dreamy quietude in his dark eyes that revealed the greater sweep of his thoughts. The Snowshoe Trail She looked up at Richard with a delightful effect of pensiveness from beneath the sweeping brim of her cavalier hat.—"I can well believe Aunt Katherine would be attracted by her," she continued. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He had, in fact, opened his mouth to utter a scriptural quotation, but, checked on the verge of it, dropped back into pensiveness. Shining Ferry In my mind's eye, Horatio, surrounded by their little ones—noble youths and graceful maidens, in whom the impetuosity of the fiery Romeo is tempered by the pensiveness of the fair Ophelia. A Midnight Fantasy Mathilde settled back on the divan and stared with mocking pensiveness at her shoes. Erik Dorn The girl's face wears an expression of sad yet almost hopeful pensiveness. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Her gloom, her abstraction, departed, leaving only a pretty pensiveness. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance In this only was resemblance, unless in a certain pensiveness of expression and pose of attitude. Hubert's Wife A Story for You "What," cried the Queen, surprised out of the pensiveness of her matronly gravity, "surely you do not mean to say that the girl would refuse a prince—a reigning prince?" Patsy "I am thirty-nine or forty, I forget which," said Anne, as she drew her fingers through the long locks, gazing down on them with some pensiveness. Agatha's Husband A Novel Upon Oswald's spirits has settled deep pensiveness, so solemn as to check all buoyant exuberance, for the time restraining joyous tremor at thought of those waiting Northfield greetings. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Probably," he mused, with that idle pensiveness which is the lazy man's apology to himself for not thinking, "the thing which would surprise them most would be to see how much they held in common. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes "I suppose I should thank you," she continued in the same pensiveness of manner. The Tyranny of Weakness Often have I reflected on it; sometimes with pensiveness, with sadness never. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection The pensiveness did not prevent Milton from hitting Bert a tremendous slap with a boot-leg, saying, "Hello! that mosquito pretty near had you that time." Short Stories of Various Types Songs that were so gay an hour ago took on a certain pensiveness, akin to the purple and dun stealing over the river. A Little Girl in Old Detroit The only drawback to my happiness was the pensiveness that hung like a soft cloud over the spirits of Edith. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author 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. Simon Dale But Salvator was capable of pensiveness, of faith, and of fear.' Art in England Notes and Studies There is always a shade of melancholy, a tinge of pensiveness, a touch of pathos, in all profound rest. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 “Holloa, Momus!” exclaimed Reginald, “what's the row? as Salisbury would say; only, more properly we might ask, in your case, what do the tranquillity and genteel pensiveness of your demeanor denote?” Louis' School Days A Story for Boys Since her brother's marriage, she had felt a vacuum in her heart, which often involved her in a soft cloud of pensiveness. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author Still," said the Vicar, falling into a sudden pensiveness as I rose to take my leave, "there are things above fortune's favour, or a King's, or a great lady's. Simon Dale All herbs of the Borage order are indifferently "of force and virtue to drive away sorrow and pensiveness of the mind: also to comfort and strengthen the heart." Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure So Leslie sat there, pausing in her sewing, and gazing idly at the sky, with a girl's quick pensiveness and thick-coming fancies, as she mused. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes But while she talked to Mr. Floyd I observed a change in her: her eyes had lost their pensiveness and calm, and fell before his shyly: the flushes came and went on her cheeks. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. We not only realize the scene, but we also feel in its description the same mood of subtle pensiveness, with its flavour of melancholy, in which the writer saw and felt it. Platform Monologues The eyes of the little inventor softened and into them crept a glint of pensiveness. Flood Tide A curious pensiveness passed from one to the other and possessed them both. A Chance Acquaintance The figure of Joachim is singularly beautiful in its pensiveness and slow motion; and the ignobleness of the herdsmen's figures is curiously marked in opposition to the dignity of their master. Giotto and his works in Padua An Explanatory Notice of the Series of Woodcuts Executed for the Arundel Society After the Frescoes in the Arena Chapel Katie's air of pensiveness as she took her seat seemed to her aunt suitable and very becoming. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2 The 308utmost pensiveness which can ordinarily be given to a landscape depends on adjuncts of ruin; but no ruin was ever so affecting as this gliding of the vessel to her grave. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers The song of the wind among the pines, that mountain wind which never ceases to blow, had a sort of sighing pensiveness in its falling cadences. The Black Pearl And Mr. Fogo resumed his work, and thought no more about it; but Caleb alternated between moods of pensiveness and fussy energy for some days after. The Astonishing History of Troy Town Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner sat in silent pensiveness, according to their wont, contemplating the boats on the water. The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax The men sat still, gazing into their pannikins, and big bearded diggers had a chastened pensiveness that might have been comic had there been any there to laugh at them. In the Roaring Fifties "Pensive playfulness" is Newman's phrase for Basil, but there was a speed about his retorts which did not always savour of pensiveness. Americans and Others The colour died out of her face again and she nodded once or twice, and a great pensiveness came down on her. Come Rack! Come Rope! Instead of the thoughtless levity of childhood, he possessed the pensiveness, gravity, and melancholy of maturer life. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions "I knew the late Lord Blanchemain—I knew him fairly well," she mentioned, always with a certain pensiveness. My Friend Prospero That sweet pensiveness, which thrills so affectingly through their music and poetry, is to them a species of luxury. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations "Adieu to my companion of many lonely hours!" he said with a half whimsical pensiveness. Flames This characteristic pensiveness in them being so notorious, I wonder none of those writers, who have expressly treated of melancholy, should have mentioned it. The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 This deep pensiveness is revealed in his physiognomy. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Here the genius of the parting day, and all that it means to the imagination, its quiet movement and its music, its pensiveness and its regrets, have been given a form more lasting than bronze. The Art of Letters The pensiveness which 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. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations It was whispered among friends that day by day Elinor's face was assuming a deeper shade of pensiveness which threatened soon to render her too true a counterpart of her melancholy picture. Twice Told Tales The firelight played on her mop of brown hair, bringing out its golden shades, and on the charming pensiveness of her face. Lady Connie His dark-blue eyes, which were deeply set, had an expression of resignation, and an earnestness that was almost pensiveness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 A sweet and healthy tone of mind breathes through them, and the pensiveness that characterises many of them, marks a reflecting spirit imbued with tenderness. The Idler in France Indeed, it is to their love songs, principally, that the general remark on the pensiveness of Russian songs and airs is applicable. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations A pensiveness, and next a gentle sorrow, had successively dwelt upon her countenance, deepening with the lapse of time into a quiet anguish. Twice Told Tales Now Roderic, to whom the presence of this sweet and beautiful lady was a new experience, observed her pensiveness and wondered thereat. The Thirsty Sword His face was pale, and wore a thoughtful expression, his features, when in repose, wearing an appearance of pensiveness approaching to melancholy. The Dock and the Scaffold The utmost pensiveness which can ordinarily be given to a landscape depends on adjuncts of ruin, but no ruin was ever so affecting as the gliding of this ship to her grave. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great Even the more frivolous and equivocal songs have a tincture of this pensiveness. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations The white-throat's distant descant with slow stress Note after note upon the noonday falls, Filling the leisured air at intervals With his own mood of piercing pensiveness. Lyrics of Earth These Henrietta did not neglect, though touching them with a disarming pensiveness of demeanour. Deadham Hard 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 Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton The pensiveness of his mood gradually gave place to more cheerful thoughts. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 07, May, 1858 Together with the cheerful sweetness of her disposition, there was an unusual pensiveness, a tender care for others, which was most endearing, and often touching to witness. A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Remains, of Eliza Southall, Late of Birmingham, England The pretty little widow received Gilbert very graciously; but there was a slight shade of melancholy in her manner, a pensiveness which softened and refined her, Gilbert thought. Fenton's Quest By luncheon time, however, Henrietta was altogether herself, save for a pretty pensiveness, and emerged with all her accustomed amiability from this temporary eclipse. Deadham Hard The men shave their heads, but wear long beards, and are extremely proud of their mustaches, which are usually turned downwards, and which give the other features of the face a cast of peculiar pensiveness. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827 There is an air of calmness and pensiveness about them, which surprises and interests particularly a native of the south. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827 If my countenance expressed what I aimed at, it was composed and dignified; and yet, with a degree of pensiveness which might convince him that I was not quite happy. Lady Susan A gentle pensiveness her life benumbs— And mine, alone, the blame! The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan Then a certain pensiveness fell over her beauty which dimmed yet intensified it; sharp angles, glittering points, melted away into curves and enticing gleams. Anne's House of Dreams He viewed it for a while, and not without pensiveness. The Certain Hour "No," rejoined Winterbourne, with something of that pensiveness to which his aunt had alluded. Daisy Miller An ominous mournfulness, far sadder than the pensiveness of twilight, drew over the sky. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 His cheerfulness is without levity, and his pensiveness without asperity. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 The expression of pensiveness deepened, increased by a sudden, disturbing thought. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California I burn and yet I freeze, I flame and cool as fast, In hope to win and for to lese, my pensiveness doth last; Why should my dull spirit appal my courage so? A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 This was that source of disquiet, which has constantly given me an air of pensiveness and melancholy. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian It's true, I can't restore the old face; but the old outlook on life, the old habits, the old pensiveness, will bring back the old expression. The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day I did not then know that the pensiveness of reverse is the best phase for some minds; nor did I reflect that some herbs, "though scentless when entire, yield fragrance when they're bruised." Villette With the hour of departure a drop came in their high spirits, a prevailing pensiveness in the face of farewells. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California There is no undue element of pensiveness in Longfellow's strains. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Her face grew serious in its beauty, her step was slower, her conversation less gay, and the distraction of visiting a sick-room, caused no happy re-action to her pensiveness. Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense The vision of the rugged pensiveness of the old philosophers is as beautiful and as shallow as a page of De Quincey. Modern Painting Lady Bassett let her cry, thinking it would relieve her, and then spoke to her again with the languid pensiveness of a woman who has also her trouble. A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day I little thought myself to be the cause of their pensiveness, and I should have expected it to be quite otherwise when I found them talking to you. Psyche The conceit came to me of a copious grove of singing birds, and in their midst a simple harmonic duo, two human souls, steadily asserting their own pensiveness, joyousness. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy "Yes," he said, with an affected pensiveness, "so very much depends upon the person in such a case." Indian Summer What an air of resignation, of pensiveness, this picture exhales! Modern Painting Or else they clomb, delighted, up that hill, Upon whose top the Castle's ruins still Invite the mind, in pensiveness, to know The end of all things in this world below. The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects She washed her face And felt still sad, but with her pensiveness A certain joy was mingled, for her pain Was passed. Malayan Literature It was more sallow than usual; its upper lip was drawn away from the teeth and deeply wrinkled; the eyes, half-closed, were very soft; they looked as though there was a veil across their pensiveness. Hidden Creek But the sad incident tempered his mind with a sort of pensiveness that lasted throughout the morning, and quite till lunch. Indian Summer To say that our hero was handsome, would be saying but little, for one often meets with such; but with the almost feminine pensiveness which characterized his manly features, we meet seldom. Natalie A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds She was, from that time, delivered from the violence of tempestuous sorrow, and sunk into silent pensiveness and gloomy tranquillity. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes Whether that quick transition from pensiveness to a dancing gaiety was the cause, or whether it only helped her beauty, this is certain. The Broken Road She was serious, almost sad, and she viewed the English hills with a pensiveness which became her better than mirth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 As for him that rives blocks or carries packs, there is no great expense of parts, no anxiety of mind, no great intellectual pensiveness. An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments His countenance had an April pensiveness about it; you would never have guessed that he could write of owls so jocosely. Memories of Hawthorne A bitter pang struck him—that pensiveness was for Mahommed—yet he answered: "I was nearest him until he took up his father's sword." The Prince of India — Volume 02 But an air of pensiveness, almost of dejection, broken by sharp outbursts of indignation marked the social converse. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812 Some slight pretence of that kind served to throw a shade of pensiveness over his convivial revels, and thus to rescue them from the taint of plebeian grossness. Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 The pain and suffering which attended the latter part of her life never found its way into her work save through increased sweetness and pensiveness. The Moccasin Maker He always emphasizes and expands passages which speak either of the responsibilities of rulers or of the nothingness of earthly power; and the reflections are pervaded by a pensiveness which reminds us of Marcus Aurelius. Lectures and Essays She leant back in her deep chair with a pensiveness, a faint suggestion of weariness bespeaking the end of a convalescence, which was perhaps climatic. The Grey Lady Far different was the dreamy pensiveness with which Mr. and Mrs. Clifford looked back upon their vanished youth and maturity. Nature's Serial Story There was, however, a delicious pensiveness hanging over them now, like those delicate veils that enhance beauty and conceal nothing. What Can She Do? 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. At Last There was a pensiveness mixed with the satisfaction in his mother's eyes as she looked at him, for it was the first break into the home. Magnum Bonum Why, I'd like to get where I could stretch an' holler without disturbin' the pensiveness of some dude in a dress suit. The Spoilers The days passed like bright smiles, in which, however, lurked the pensiveness of autumn. Nature's Serial Story He skipped the evening meal at Mrs. Arty's, dining with literary pensiveness at the Armenian, for he had subtle problems to meditate. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man During the day Monty devoted himself to his guests, and at the first sign of pensiveness he was ready with a jest or a story. Brewster's Millions There is a gentleness in her impulses—a pensiveness in her smile—a softness in her emotions—a grace in her movements—an ardent soul in her love! Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter The look of a chief is dignified and grave even to pensiveness; the “respectable man’s” is self-sufficient and fierce; the lower orders look ferocious, stupid, and inquisitive. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 It irritated him; he would have preferred her to speak with more of the old pensiveness. Born in Exile He was filled, too, with that peculiar pensiveness which troubles complex people when they have done a kindly act. South Wind The waves of music from the great; sounding organ awe their souls and fill them with a pensiveness which they mistake for repentance. The Heart-Cry of Jesus In the moments when Dyce Lashmar was neither aware of being observed nor consciously occupied with the pressing problems of his own existence, his face expressed a natural amiability, inclining to pensiveness. Our Friend the Charlatan The autumn air, the sun-stained mist, the silent sea, would naturally incline to pensiveness one who knew that mood. Thyrza The black dress, the touch of pensiveness was in keeping with the shadow of tragedy. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life I ought to tell you," said Mac, after two minutes of pensiveness, "that my cousin Cliff can beat me dancing. Rolling Stones On the outside was a very suitable pensiveness, and affection for all that she was leaving. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations Startled out of her happy pensiveness by that smooth and now unutterably sinister voice, she turned to face its owner. Love-at-Arms An air of pensiveness added interest to his handsome face and courtly figure, and methought that Genevi�ve must be hard to please if she fell not a victim to his wooing. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes He had apparently not observed that the girl had a pensive temperament in spite of the effect of worldly splendour which her mother contrived for her, and that this pensiveness occasionally deepened to gloom. April Hopes The travellers remained, for some time, in a state of tranquil pensiveness, which is not unpleasing. The Mysteries of Udolpho Yet to those who had eyes to understand as well as to see, the chastened pensiveness of her once handsome features revealed more promising material beneath than ever her youth had done. Two on a Tower He was dressed somewhat differently now, but the face was quite that of his late guest in its tragical pensiveness, as was also the tallness of his figure. A Changed Man; and other tales His voice was low and clear, and of a somewhat melancholy cadence, going well with the pensiveness of fine, deeply fringed eyes. To Have and to Hold The eager glance of the keen black eye, which in the Chieftain seemed impatient even of the material obstacles it encountered, had, in his sister, acquired a gentle pensiveness. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since In the Assembly they called themselves Moderates, and opposed every energetic measure with philanthropic pensiveness. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard He had a thin, pale, rather pleasing hatchet-face, framed in the curls of a golden periwig, a sensitive mouth and pale blue eyes that lent his countenance a dreamy expression, a rather melancholy pensiveness. Captain Blood The solitude of the place, the tranquillity of the hour, the majesty of the scene, impressed on my mind a religious pensiveness. The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature My own quite unconscious act of rising from the grave and standing before him on the path to listen brought back to us our harmonious pensiveness. Lady Baltimore The habitual expression of her face was a sweet pensiveness, but sometimes she was irritable and a little petulant. The Cloister and the Hearth And upon another occasion, after a cry of enthusiasm at the view from the top of Mount Anthony, "It's lovely, lovely, lovely," she said, with diminishing cadence, ending in pensiveness once more. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains Gladness And sadness And pensiveness blending Yearning And burning In torment ne'er ending; Sad unto death, Proudly soaring above; Happy alone Is the soul that doth love! The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres It is difficult to say how long Mr. Hoopdriver's pensiveness lasted. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll For a kiss or two, confess, What doth cause this pensiveness, Thou most lovely neat-herdess? A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick Over all the legal neighbourhood there hangs, like some great veil of rust or gigantic cobweb, the idleness and pensiveness of the long vacation. Bleak House |
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