What is "meditatively"

Usage examples of "meditatively".

There, too, were a number of the lords, each with a band of brilliantly attired attendants, and prominent among them was Nasta, stroking his black beard meditatively and looking unusually pleasant.

Jack Markland studied his brother meditatively, still sitting in the ragged grass, leaning back on his big flat palms.

Ferdinand on the head and walked slowly out of the room and down the hall to his study, where he slumped into the shabby morris chair by the window and meditatively twisted the burnsides into pencil-points.

Milligan stood before the door of her select dressmaking parlours, meditatively picking her teeth with a needle.

Rabbits twitched moist, velvet noses and laid their ears along their backs but did not run away when they saw the barefoot children go by and Emile pointed out to Madeline how a wise toad, squatting meditatively among the kingcups, must have a jewel in his head because bright beams darted out through his eyes, as though a cold fire burned inside his head.

For the meditatively untrained mind, however, due to its extreme brevity, no single moment of awareness has the capacity of ascertaining anything.

There were red brick stacks and tall silver ones, stacks in regimental rows or all alone puffing meditatively away, a forest of smokestacks that dimmed the sunlight and then, all of a sudden, blocked it out completely.

Scratching his head meditatively, he said: “An' all because av me wantin' to enjoy the blessin's an' advantages av civilization agin afther three long months in that danged gradin' camp, as is the right av ivery healthy man wid his pay in his pocket.

He took a belaying pin from the rail, and walked up slowly to the seated pilot, weighing the instrument meditatively in his hand.

Sitting at the back of a widened section of the cave was a single ancient Morish, even older than the one they'd talked to at the booth, meditatively plucking the stretched wires of some kind of musical instrument.

John Southerland said meditatively, as soon as the door had closed behind one of them.

Smugglers and romantic young men, meditatively dripping tin foil as they flew through the Russian night, made Russian radar useless.

While the bread is toasting and the water for his tea is heating, he pours milk around but not on two Weetabix biscuits in a dish and sits at the kitchen table to eat meditatively while looking at the back garden.

From the embankment of the long-abandoned ErieLackawanna-Pennsylvania Railroad, - Chris sat silently watching the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, preparing to take off, and sucked meditatively upon the red and white clover around him.

He had a habit of meditatively stroking his scar when troubled, as another man might finger a strand of worry beads.