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  • noun Plural form of meditation.

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Examples

  • This tour-de-force was the catalyst for the maudlin meditations of Milly Theale, the American heiress heroine of Henry James's The Wings of the Dove.

    Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

  • N your book of lake meditations is keeping me company late at night. it has a warmth, beauty and wisdom that is downright soulful.

    July « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • N your book of lake meditations is keeping me company late at night. it has a warmth, beauty and wisdom that is downright soulful.

    norbert blei | a meditation on ‘getting it out there’ « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008

  • To see this red gown and these rich laces, to see this forehead pale and bent down in meditations, to see the solitude of this cabinet, the silence of the antechambers, the measured step of the guards upon the landing, one could well believe that the ghost of Cardinal Richelieu was still in his chamber.

    Twenty Years After 2003

  • To see this red gown and these rich laces, to see this forehead pale and bent down in meditations, to see the solitude of this cabinet, the silence of the antechambers, the measured step of the guards upon the landing, one could well believe that the ghost of Cardinal Richelieu was still in his chamber.

    Twenty Years After 2003

  • To see this red gown and these rich laces, to see this forehead pale and bent down in meditations, to see the solitude of this cabinet, the silence of the antechambers, the measured step of the guards upon the landing, one could well believe that the ghost of Cardinal Richelieu was still in his chamber.

    The Sudden Curve: 2003

  • Thus, in meditations more moral than amusing, Orlando passed two or three tedious hours, sheltered by pease halm and straw, which he gathered around him, and leaning against the boards of the barn, that he might not fail to hear when the ambassadress entered the outhouse adjoining to it.

    The Old Manor House 1793

  • Cultivating plants also inspires thoughts and meditations, which is what happened to me in the onion patch (see June 21 – “Meditation Over the Onions”).

    Archive 2010-08-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • Cultivating plants also inspires thoughts and meditations, which is what happened to me in the onion patch (see June 21 – “Meditation Over the Onions”).

    Farm Journal: A Developing Philosophy on Weeding Olga Bonfiglio 2010

  • Cultivating plants also inspires thoughts and meditations, which is what happened to me in the onion patch see June 21 – “Meditation Over the Onions”.

    Farm Journal: A Developing Philosophy on Weeding Olga Bonfiglio 2010

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