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Meanings of pensive air in English
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Usage of pensive air in English
1
Now, as he was ascending the platform, he had a pensive air.
2
His long, aristocratic face wore a more melancholy, pensive air than usual.
3
He had not the pensive air of one who has seen better days.
4
She returned to Moon in the house on Waller Street with a pensive air.
5
Ivan shook his head with a pensive air, and left.
6
Raphael shook his head slowly, and with a pensive air.
7
Only Io was wide awake, and even her sweet face wore a pensive air.
8
Only the pensive air has lost its melancholy.
9
In her, a pensive air seemed to be some gleam of an earthly love, nobly extinguished.
10
At length they beheld their friend advancing slowly towards them, with a thoughtful and even pensive air.
11
Left alone, the cardinal said to himself, with a pensive air, I always come back to that.
12
Whatever it may be, there is here a moment of pause, a pensive air of the closing scene.
13
They both wore a pensive air.
14
The second, who holds the thread, has a pensive air, but is still, I think, pitiless at heart.
15
Miss Graham seated herself at the piano, and played a few bars with an absent and somewhat pensive air.
16
Sylvia's movements were always graceful, and she had now a subdued, pensive air that rendered her appearance slightly pathetic.
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