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Meanings of pensive in английском

Deeply or seriously thoughtful;

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Showing pensive sadness.

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Usage of pensive in английском
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On the way home my father was pensive and didn't speak much.
Empty mile
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It is tender, pensive, personal; other psalms are that; but Psalm cxix.
The Altar Fire
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But the quip was lost on Nikki, who stayed her pensive course.
Driving Heat
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These thoughts kept him pensive and melancholy in the midst of pleasure.
The Adventures of Ulysses
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The verses added in the present edition are more pensive, even sombre.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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And at the same time he was indulging in a pensive soliloquy.
Sixes and Sevens
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Even this period of completion is marked by the general pensive beauty.
The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition / A Pictor...
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Of the pensive shepherd, twitching his mantle blue: you in an ulster.
The Longest Journey
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His little brother Etienne, the tiniest mite in the regiment, looks pensive.
Child Life in Town and Country / 1909
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The countess was sitting in a delicious attitude, pensive and rather melancholy.
Paz (La Fausse Maitresse)
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The vast immortal suns and the long-enduring pensive moons shall again shine.
Leaves of Grass
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Sidney was moody; Addie pensive, Esther full of stifled wrath and anxiety.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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Julia Matilda has been in a pensive mood ever since she returned.
An Outcast; Or, Virtue and Faith
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When the imprinter did come off, it revealed a very pensive expression.
The Naked God
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She is rather pensive-yetnot too pensive; just what is called interesting.
The Crayon Papers
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The detectives exchanged glances again, but their expressions were no longer pensive.
Roast mortem
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