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dwells upon
verb as in linger over; be engrossed in
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If he pays her little attentions, she dwells upon them until she becomes eager for them.
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She pretends to laugh at one, whom sometimes her youthful romantic fancy dwells upon in a very different sense.
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I wonder that my mind dwells upon suicide more and more rarely, ever more cursorily.
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Then his mind, turning away from nature, dwells upon man, and the problem of human life.
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The injured self-feeling dwells upon the economic or political inequalities which flow from the dominance of the ruling crowd.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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