Meanings of contemplating with in English

The girl stood beside him, contemplating with affectionate delight the success of her experiment.

Elena meanwhile was contemplating with increasing interest the singing gringo.

Nevertheless it was this prospect that he found himself contemplating with all the ardour of desire.

Alone in his room, he stood before a mirror, contemplating with a smile his own image.

But what he was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her soul.

Women are so vain! he added, contemplating with rapt attention the enamel-like polish on his finger-nails.

And yet God is conceived of as contemplating with equanimity the everlasting torment of His own children.

Just for a moment he sat there contemplating with pleased, tired eyes the wilderness of bloom before him.

Soon he was contemplating with a satisfied smile a green and enraged cat and a green and enraged hen.

The clattering tram is technologically primitive compared with the high-speed passenger rail venture Veolia is contemplating with partner Air France-KLM.

Here on board this veritable fireship I cannot help contemplating with a longing eye this vast ocean that surrounds us.

He was contemplating with a pair of black, expressionless eyes the shadows growing in the crevices of the far side of the gorge.

Then sitting down he remained as he was, contemplating with profound sadness the implacable scene, which was all he had to look upon.

He either loses the means in contemplating with unholy contemplation the end, like an idealist, or he loses the end in contemplating the means.

A few months later, Horace Rutherford stood in Greenwood Cemetery contemplating with curiosity and interest the inscription on a recently-erected monument of pure white marble.

They therefore counted the hours, which went too slowly for them, Barbicane and Nicholl obstinately plunged in calculations, contemplating with longing eye the impassible moon.