pensively

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Pensively he added: "I may eat the entire 20 dozen myself, what with this and what with that."

From Time Magazine Archive

Pensively Sometimes have I remarked the slow decay, Feeling myself changed, too, and musing much, On many a sad vicissitude of life!

From The Dog's Book of Verse by Various

Pensively she read one of the Tauchnitz Library.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Pensively she gazed at her toes, upon which a shaft of the morning sunlight was striking.

From Burning Sands by Weigal, Arthur

Pensively, a minute, he appeared to figure the words, in their absurdity, on the lips of some young man not, like himself, tactful.

From The Awkward Age by James, Henry