1 Martha looked reflective again.
2 You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.
3 Hitherto he had found, in her presence and her talk, the aesthetic amusement which a reflective man is apt to seek in desultory intercourse with pretty women.
4 One could see that, as far as it had gone, her life was very complete on its reflective side.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 5 Porthos pretended that this occupation was proof of a reflective and contemplative organization, and he had brought him away without any other recommendation.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS 6 When I reflect, my dear cousin," said she, "on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.
7 This passion is detrimental to me, for you do not reflect that YOU are the cause of its excess.
8 I paused some time to reflect on all he had related and the various arguments which he had employed.
9 Its fair lakes reflect a blue and gentle sky, and when troubled by the winds, their tumult is but as the play of a lively infant when compared to the roarings of the giant ocean.
10 This idea plunged me into a reverie so despairing and frightful that even now, when the scene is on the point of closing before me forever, I shudder to reflect on it.
11 My rage is unspeakable when I reflect that the murderer, whom I have turned loose upon society, still exists.
12 Yet it is terrible to reflect that the lives of all these men are endangered through me.
13 I shall never reflect on my former acquaintance with your family in Devonshire without the most grateful pleasure, and flatter myself it will not be broken by any mistake or misapprehension of my actions.
14 In short, I do not mean to reflect upon the behaviour of any person whom you have a regard for, Mrs. Jennings.
15 And with this pleasing anticipation, she sat down to reconsider the past, recall the words and endeavour to comprehend all the feelings of Edward; and, of course, to reflect on her own with discontent.