meditation,

Mathematum pulchritudo (saith [3327] Plutarch) ut his indignum sit divitiarum phaleras istas et bullas, et puellaria spectacula comparari; such is the excellency of these studies, that all those ornaments and childish bubbles of wealth, are not worthy to be compared to them: credi mihi ([3328] saith one) extingui dulce erit Mathematicarum artium studio, I could even live and die with such meditation,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Now in wintry delights, and long fireside meditation,

The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum

The next evening, as I sat with folded hands in meditation,

Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

Though God Himself is the chief object and study of their meditation,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

I – we – that is, he resumed after a moment of amused meditation,

Just Patty 1911

Gallery of Dublin the portrait of a man with brooding eyes, and scrawled on the canvas is the subject of his bitter meditation,

The Coming of Cuculain Standish O'Grady 1887

-- How, we ask in return, do you know that the mind is purified by works, and that, in the mind so purified of a person withdrawn from all other objects by hearing, reflection and meditation,

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

So, observing the indignation of the prince, he said after some meditation,

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

Mrs. Arlington saw leaning upon the curb, in a posture of meditation,

A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett William Henry Venable 1878

"I tell you what," broke in Mr Cripps, in the midst of this meditation,

The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story Talbot Baines Reed 1872