What is "mulling"

Usage examples of "mulling".

Now, mulling over her sire's request that she consider the new Cavernus, she wondered how that could be connected with Baythan's boast that he would, at long last, accomplish his mysterious mission and restore his contractual honor with the High Lady Cinna.

And, though at first her response was reflexive while she was still mulling over his news, he had no trouble in getting her complete attention.

So there it was, presented calmly, a choice that he had been mulling over for a month.

Once she was alone, she began to pace, mulling possibilities over in her mind.

I've been mulling on it all these years now, and I think the reason is that they've got too many people crowding into too few streets, and if I ever go back I plan to tell the Emperor, or whoever's in charge these days, that it'd be a good idea to move some of ’em out to the suburbs.

Murphy walked with me to the edge of the mat, frowning and mulling things over.

He held his cup beneath the spout of the mulling stove and opened the cock.

He touched the faucet of the mulling stove, opening it just enough in curiosity to jet a thin line of Caecuban onto the brick paving.

He dreamed that he was at the restaurant again with Vonones and N'Sumu, but that he was trapped inside the thermospodium in which they were mulling Vonones' wine.

Meanwhile my friend Herbert lay on the couch, unemployed and divided against himself, mulling over his troubles.

Herbert lay for another week on his mulling couch, he was insufferable, available neither for an interrogation of his scars nor for a visit to promising shopwindows.