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Ruminate   Listen
verb
Ruminate  v. t.  
1.
To chew over again.
2.
Fig.: To meditate or ponder over; to muse on. "Mad with desire, she ruminates her sin." "What I know Is ruminated, plotted, and set down."






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"Ruminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts The worst ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... mind! 'Tis impudence to think my soul will bear it! Let but to-morrow, but to-morrow, come, And try if all thy arts appease my wrong; Till when, be this detested place my bed; [lies down. Where I will ruminate on woman's ills, Laugh at myself, and curse th' inconstant ...
— The Orphan - or, The Unhappy Marriage • Thomas Otway

... with your equals, for you must see, if you have any gumption, that Watty Williams is above you. Aye, you may roar!—but if I sit here till Aurora appears in the east, you won't catch me winking. What a pity it is you cannot reflect as well as ruminate; you would spare yourself a great deal of trouble, and me a little fright ...
— The Sketches of Seymour (Illustrated), Complete • Robert Seymour

... pity." He appeared to ruminate for a second or two. "And I can't offer to take it out in orphans, neither. Very well, then, ...
— True Tilda • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... shades of ev'ning close, Beck'ning thee to long repose; As life itself becomes disease, Seek the chimney-nook of ease. There ruminate, with sober thought, On all thou'st seen, and heard, and wrought; And teach the sportive younkers round, Saws of experience, sage and sound. Say, man's true genuine estimate, The grand criterion of his fate, Is not—Art thou high or low? Did thy ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... Fire, swearing that since he was not to read them, the Man who writ them should never be so happy as to have me read them over again. It is insignificant to tell you my Tears and Reproaches made the boisterous Calf leave the Room ashamed and out of Countenance, when I had leisure to ruminate on this Accident with more than ordinary Sorrow: However, such was then my Confidence in my Husband, that I writ to him the Misfortune, and desired another Paper of the same kind. He deferred writing two or three Posts, and at last answered me in general, ...
— The Spectator, Volume 2. • Addison and Steele

... say? Oh, the Stanleighs ... yes, yes, of course." He slowly nodded his head and fell silent. "I was about to say ..." He broke off again and seemed to ruminate profoundly.... "Love-birds—" I caught the word feebly from his lips, spoken as if in a daze. The glass hung dripping ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 • Various

... the son, and the daughter to the father, and natural affection is increased by a twofold passion. Ah, wretched me! that it was not my chance to be born there, {and that} I am injured by my lot {being cast} in this place! {but} why do I ruminate on these things? Forbidden hopes, begone! He is deserving to be beloved, but as a father {only}. Were I not, therefore, the daughter of the great Cinyras, with Cinyras I might be united. Now, because he is so much mine, he is not mine, ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes - and Explanations • Publius Ovidius Naso

... get to stand so close by the Holy Altar, that I can hear what the Priest reads, especially the Epistle and the Gospel; from these I endeavour to pick something, which I fix in my Mind, and this I ruminate upon ...
— Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. • Erasmus

... probably the sentiment in the world that is in the act of supplying enjoyment in the largest, sweetest mouthfuls; and there is something unsurpassably marked in the way that on this irresistible shore it has seated itself to ruminate and digest. It keeps the record in its own loud accents; it breaks out in the folds of the hills and on the crests of the crags into every manner of symptom and warning. Huge advertisements and portents stare across the bay; the acclivities ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James

... gun down on the bridge, and he lit his pipe, and he sat down under an ould tree and began to ruminate ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 1 (of 2) • Charles Lever

... melancholy To gather on our faces like a rust, But glass our features with some change of folly, Taking life's fabled miseries on trust, But only sorrowing when sorrow must: We ruminate no sage's solemn cud, But own ourselves a pinch of lively dust To frisk upon a wind,—whereas the flood Of tears would turn ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood

... token of a spirit obscure indeed, but rich and effervescent, would open for them a future. One sign of dim inward struggle and pain, as if the spirit resented his imprisonment, would do the same. Both were wanting. They ruminate; life is the ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 • Various

... ventilators was fully open, and two people were talking within the room in even the ordinary tones of conversation—would it not be possible for an eavesdropper outside to hear a good deal, if not everything, of what was said? The idea was worth thinking over, anyway, and Triffitt retired indoors to ruminate over it and ...
— The Herapath Property • J. S. Fletcher

... time to ruminate on these things as I paced to and fro in the empty midnight streets of Brescia. Methought I could hear, in the silent night, the cry of the martyrs whose ashes sleep in the plains around, saying, "How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou ...
— Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber - Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge • James Aitken Wylie



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