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Updated: May 27, 2025
It would have seemed ruminative, the stare, had his eyes been softer or had he blinked; as it was, his face was set and trance-like. "Have you been in the country long?" St. Vincent asked, endeavoring to make conversation. Borg turned his sullen-black eyes upon him, and seemed to look into him and through him and beyond him, and, still regarding him, to have forgotten all about him.
They went forward toward the common centre, with a slow ruminative movement, and the dust they raised went with them. Little by little they grew plainer to us, and the home ranch, hitherto merely a brown shimmer in the distance, began to take on definition as the group of buildings, windmills, and corrals we knew.
From certain good skins of the latter May-may-gwán was engaged in weaving a blanket, braiding the long strips after a fashion of her own. She smoked tanned buckskin, and with it repaired thoroughly both the men's garments and her own. These things were to be done, though leisurely, and with slow, ruminative pauses for the dreaming of forest dreams.
Jerkley announced his intention of returning home. There would at all events be one pair of eyes the less. He strolled with Mr. Jerkley on the terrace after breakfast with a deep air of cogitation, the better to avoid questions. Gibson Jerkley, however, was himself in a ruminative mood.
"What in the world !" she said at length and hated herself for the vulgar surprise in her tone. Zenie turned away from the inspection and, finding herself and appendage the centre of interest, bridled with a timid pleasure, and then poked a ruminative finger into the swaddle of shawl and comforter. "Yas'm," she began in explanation. "Done brung 'im to show t' Mis' Susie. Didn' know you wuz home."
The old horse cropped the young shoots with a contented, ruminative air, once in a while pausing to hang his head drowsily, and bask motionless in the warmth. Then the old man began to speak in a serious tone, quite different from his gentle laughter. "Young Everett, of all the people you have seen, is there one whom you would wish to have even a moment of the tortures of hell?"
Bob owned a boyish desire to follow the wake of the cyclone, but in the presence of this imperturbability, he repressed his inclination. "Some day the damn fool will bust his head open," said the liveryman, after a ruminative pause. "I shouldn't think you'd rent him a horse," said Bob. "He pays," yawned the other.
When the repast was finished, Kenelm seemed to forget the dangerous properties of the carnivorous animal; and stretching himself indolently out, appeared to be as innocently ruminative as the most domestic of animals graminivorous. Then said the boy, rather timidly, "May I ask you another favour?" "Is it to knock down another uncle, or to steal another gig and cob?"
Tom and Alfred had been chums now for close on two years, so Alfred knew enough to leave him entirely alone until he should recover. The primary cause of Tom's abstraction was an open-air preacher, and the secondary cause was, of course, a love affair. These two things did not connect themselves consciously in Tom's mind, but they blended subtly to produce a ruminative dissatisfaction.
Tredgold. Mr. Stobell, whose habit was taciturn and ruminative, fixed his dull brown eyes on the ground and thought it over. "I believe it's all my eye and Betty Martin," he said, at length, quoting a saying which had been used in his family as an expression of disbelief since the time of his great-grandmother. "He comes in to see me when I'm hard at work and drops hints," pursued his friend.
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