1 At one's feet that which can be cultivated and plucked; over head that which one can study and meditate upon: some flowers on earth, and all the stars in the sky.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED 2 Then he took possession of himself: he set his elbows on the table, leaned his head on his hand, and began to meditate in the dark.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL 3 To meditate on the Shadow is a serious thing.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII—FAITH, LAW 4 What caused him to meditate deeply, and almost reflect, were two cheerful sounds.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS 5 The definitive, meditate upon that word.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE 6 But they had reached a moment when each man has not the time to meditate on his own death.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT 7 It was evening when I arrived, and I retired to a hiding-place among the fields that surround it to meditate in what manner I should apply to you.
8 I broke from the house angry and disturbed and retired to meditate on some other mode of action.
9 None but a fiend could meditate such a vengeance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 11 10 Mrs. Bird cast a glance at a camphor-bottle, which stood in the half-open closet, and appeared to meditate an approach to it, but her husband interposed.
11 He too gazed at the pale disc of the moon, now nearly veiled, and seemed to meditate.
12 At this spot I love to meditate, as I watch the sunset; it suits a recluse like me.
13 Especially when you are meditating devilment.
14 She was meditating upon walnut fudge, the plays of Brieux, the reasons why heels run over, and the fact that the chemistry instructor had stared at the new coiffure which concealed her ears.
15 As she marched up the street she was meditating that it didn't hardly seem like it was possible there could be so many folks all in one place at the same time.