pondered

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Pondered since last summer, the drive had been actively planned for a fortnight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pondered not thus upon these worldly things, My Werner! when you deigned to choose for bride The foreign daughter of a wandering exile.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

Who would have thought it, when little Cristelle Pondered on what the preacher had told?

From Eric or, Under the Sea by Samuels, S. B. C. (Susan Blagge Caldwell)

Thus Ráma spoke: the bird of air Pondered his speech with anxious care, And wisely deemed it good to give One of his eyes that he might live.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

Pondered have I for years threescore and ten, But still am baffled by these mysteries.

From The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam by Khayyam, Omar