dwells upon

If he pays her little attentions, she dwells upon them until she becomes eager for them.

She pretends to laugh at one, whom sometimes her youthful romantic fancy dwells upon in a very different sense.

I wonder that my mind dwells upon suicide more and more rarely, ever more cursorily.

Then his mind, turning away from nature, dwells upon man, and the problem of human life.

The injured self-feeling dwells upon the economic or political inequalities which flow from the dominance of the ruling crowd.