"Contemplatively" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to get back to that other road, where the cottages are, first," Elsie said, contemplatively. "Would you like to ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... be able to treat Christopher that way, Patricia," he said contemplatively, "but it will be jolly for you to have a companion of your ...
— Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker • Marguerite Bryant
... contemplatively looking at the clouds of smoke he was puffing out, "yes, my dear boy, I expect the assassin to-night." A brief silence followed, which I took care not to interrupt, and then ...
— The Mystery of the Yellow Room • Gaston Leroux
... her dimpled hands off the edge of the table and crossed them on her lap instead; nodded contemplatively at the boiled chicken, and ...
— The Woman in White • Wilkie Collins
... engaged in unpacking, setting up and loading their weapons, chatting animatedly together meanwhile, and pausing from time to time to gaze contemplatively into the velvet darkness which represented the forest-clad nearer bank of the river before them, when suddenly Dick caught sight of what looked like two small greenish-yellow lamps close together that had suddenly revealed themselves in the blackness. They were quite motionless, and the lad ...
— In Search of El Dorado • Harry Collingwood |
