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 the visitor reflected for a few minutes, and, suddenly raising his eye doubtfully, he said, "Why then, Mr Secretary, have you ever an old black coat that you could give me?"

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

Pensively she took the foot up from the console table, and then, coming to a resolution, she took the arm down from its hook on the wall.

From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

A lovely hand was laid on mine Pensively as to say: "Life is divine!"

From Ioläus The man that was a ghost by Mackereth, James Allan

Pensively the maiden gazed at the moon, and then she sighed involuntarily.

From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Madison, Lucy Foster