1 Fasting and reflection seemed to have brought him to a better spirit.
2 One might doubt in seasons of cold reflection; but not then, in the presence of her corpse.
3 Further reflection suggested this must be Hareton, my Hareton, not altered greatly since I left him, ten months since.
4 Well, I reflected, there was never a pleasanter, or more harmless sight; and it will be a burning shame to scold them.
5 You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
6 Whether she would have got over this fancy if left to herself, or persevered in nursing it perpetually, I cannot say: she had little time to reflect.
7 The moon shone bright; a sprinkling of snow covered the ground, and I reflected that she might, possibly, have taken it into her head to walk about the garden, for refreshment.
8 The period of reflection succeeding this silly action compelled me to admit the necessity of smothering my pride and choking my wrath, and bestirring myself to remove its effects.
9 I had brought some of my nicest books for him: he asked me to read a little of one, and I was about to comply, when Earnshaw burst the door open: having gathered venom with reflection.
10 One end, indeed, reflected splendidly both light and heat from ranks of immense pewter dishes, interspersed with silver jugs and tankards, towering row after row, on a vast oak dresser, to the very roof.
11 It gave Joseph satisfaction, apparently, to watch him go the worst lengths: he allowed that the lad was ruined: that his soul was abandoned to perdition; but then he reflected that Heathcliff must answer for it.
12 And then I set myself to reflect how I had tended him in infancy, and watched him grow to youth, and followed him almost through his whole course; and what absurd nonsense it was to yield to that sense of horror.