soliloquizing

Thus soliloquizing, he lighted a segar and went out into the grounds.

Might it not be that she was merely talking to herself,—soliloquizing?

He stopped soliloquizing and looked around him, thinking rapidly.

Then the poor old man began sobbing and soliloquizing; for it is a mistake to suppose that there is no soliloquy in nature.

"The old ship is still standing," he continued, soliloquizing again, as he walked toward the bluff.