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This might have endured until he returned to earth had not the airman stopped the engines so that they drifted ruminantly in space below the clouds.
From The Burning Spear by John Galsworthy
He had done that and was ruminantly filling his pipe when something drew his gaze to one of the side windows.
From The Lilac Girl by Ralph Henry Barbour
Ruth repeated the word, not in the effect of a query, but ruminantly.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
And all the day long, while they were absent, the cattle, too, made their pilgrimage, straggling in singly, in pairs, in bunches, in long files, leisurely, ruminantly, without haste.
From Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White
"You are an angel, Fred," she repeated, ruminantly.
From The Opinions of a Philosopher by Robert Grant
