Yeobright retired to the heap of recovered rope in a meditative mood.

One involuntarily rests on his oar, to humor his unusually meditative mood.

The explosion of a cracker startled Moppet from the meditative mood.

He proceeded on in a somewhat meditative mood, until he reached the cottage.

As he took a glass of wine, O'Byrne was in a meditative mood.

Squill, being in a meditative mood, had fallen behind his comrades.

Every one knows that Summer Days dispose one to a certain listlessly meditative mood.

The President was in a melancholy, meditative mood, and had been silent for some time.

The meditative mood still held her, and the present conversation offered much food for meditation.

Hal returned to her work in a meditative mood.

Both gentlemen appeared to be in a meditative mood.

He, too, seemed to be in a meditative mood.

All the afternoon Jesse had been in a meditative mood and now he began to talk.

Whenever this feeling claimed him, he ordered his mind to change gear and slip into a meditative mood.

On returning to the mansion he found Marston seated at the table in the drawing-room, in a meditative mood.

Toward morning the Governor again had recourse to the Elizabethan bards, then he lapsed suddenly into a meditative mood.