What is "pensively"

Usage examples of "pensively".

The woman sat gazing pensively toward the shore, hands clasped in her lap.

Taking a long sip from his mug, he rolled it pensively between his palms.

The sky was bright but his mood was heavy, and as the ripples disappeared he watched them pensively, his mind a hundred miles from his halcyon surroundings.

When she did she found Cassandra staring pensively into the stained glass, out toward the muted city beyond.

Gilwyn listened to the banter, unable to eat, pensively feeding Teku bits of fruit.

Lionkeep, pensively sipping a glass of wine and surveying the feast laid out on the table.

The baron sipped pensively at his tea, then put down the cup and looked at the boy.

She leaned pensively on the little open casement, and in deep thought fixed her eyes on the heaven, whose blue unclouded concave was studded thick with stars, the worlds, perhaps, of spirits, unsphered of mortal mould.

Emily, overcome by these recollections, left the plane-tree, and, as she leaned pensively on the wall of the terrace, she observed a group of peasants dancing gaily on the banks of the Garonne, which spread in broad expanse below, and reflected the evening light.

As she wandered pensively on, she fancied the following address TO AUTUMN Sweet Autumn!

Yet Lord Golden paused a moment longer and gazed pensively at the spot where I had thought myself so well concealed.

I was walking pensively in my garden one summer day, it was told me that a woman desired to see me, so I bade them bring her.

The leaves of music still lay scattered upon the table, the lute lay neglected upon a corner of the sofa, and her imagination could have almost portrayed the form of Enrico sitting pensively in the place which he had so recently occupied.

Marchese continued to follow the terrifying phantom, who, without appearing to observe him, moved pensively along beneath the dim Gothic arch of the casement, in a kind of white robe or cassock, which descending beneath the feet, swept mournfully along the ground.

The child has fallen silent, leaning his elbow on his knees, and, his cheek resting on his hand, has raised his little head and pensively, as children sometimes become pensive, gazes intently at him.