Adjective : a pensive mood. ,a pensive adagio.    From Dictionary.com. 

The travellers remained, for some time, in a state of tranquil pensiveness, which is not unpleasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference

Back to the quiet, the inactivity, the pensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [bard Diary Entry] Reference

There's a pensiveness, an introspection, about Advent.    From Wordnik.com.  [trinityboy Diary Entry] Reference

An unexpected incident checks Esther's growing pensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

H. PRYM OUR pensiveness was still with us the next day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myth Conceptions]

Hamish thought he spied a pensiveness that softened the determined jaw.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul] Reference

The girl's face wears an expression of sad yet almost hopeful pensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference

It added a pensiveness to his manner that made him more than ever charming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference

The point-of-view character is quite flat beyond her contagious pensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [REVIEW: The Good New Stuff edited by Gardner Dozois] Reference

Holly smiled wanly and looked with pensiveness at the scar on his upper arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEASONS OF GOLD] Reference

He had grown accustomed to these moments of pensiveness on his mother's part.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference

Her heart wrenched in her breast as she saw the pensiveness in Matt's features.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart Of The Tiger]

But there was a trace of pensiveness; the vague hint of jealousy in the slow tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

"Pardon my abstraction," he said, a shade of pensiveness still lingering in his voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diamond Coterie] Reference

Dan turned around – and must have caught my pensiveness, as he asked, ‘You okay?’.    From Wordnik.com.  [State of the Union] Reference

Envy and anger shorten a man's days, and pensiveness will bring old age before the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference

An ominous mournfulness, far sadder than the pensiveness of twilight, drew over the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862] Reference

She must have attributed Sully's pensiveness and Elizabeth's red-rimmed eyes to the ordeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbidden Enchantment]

He needs to add more pensiveness to the image, though...and I'd suggest a more profile view.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy / Merry!] Reference

There was again a silence, which Margaret broke at last by saying, with gentle pensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

In this only was resemblance, unless in a certain pensiveness of expression and pose of attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference

Directing the model was a lot like directing an actor, trying to get the right feeling of pensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference

The spirited Romulan could not tolerate his friend's pensiveness and decided to do something about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [BLACK FIRE] Reference

As a rule this reply was received with a sort of meditative pensiveness, anything but flattering to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Raw Youth] Reference

And he thought, with some pensiveness, upon the sadness of that one fact, that she would never tell him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference

Fade to black as the instructor's jaw goes slack in an expression midway between terror and pensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Veteran] Reference

When some of their eyes widened, Sabine realized her pensiveness had made the cell appear to be choked with mist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiss of a Demon King] Reference

This looming empty nest evokes a number of conflicting emotions for me; regret, nostalgia, relief, and pensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-07-30] Reference

But an air of pensiveness, almost of dejection, broken by sharp outbursts of indignation marked the social converse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812] Reference

‘True, to the present time,’ Mr Boffin assented, with his former pensiveness, as he took his seat upon his settle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

There is an air of calmness and pensiveness about them, which surprises and interests particularly a native of the south.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 274, September 22, 1827] Reference

That is pensiveness, sedate chastened melancholy; but it is soothing, it speaks a philosophy, and a certain balancing of pleasures and pains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools] Reference

His eyes were dark hazel, as clear, brilliant, and tender as a girl's, and brimming full of a pensiveness which seemed both loving and melancholy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brigade Commander] Reference

"I think there's a great deal of pensiveness," Raney said.    From Wordnik.com.  [EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed] Reference

It irritated him; he would have preferred her to speak with more of the old pensiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference