But there was scant time for the lad to philosophise.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Take Our Stand] Reference

As for me, I paint pictures, listen to music, read books, philosophise and pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

We all have at least one nugget in us and many of us can philosophise? for hours.    From Wordnik.com.  [[philosophy] sophistry and pseudo-intellectualism] Reference

And when children do philosophise, I believe it is usually to very much the same purpose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Virginibus Puerisque and other papers] Reference

One evening, as he sat outside and waited, he began to philosophise over his experiences.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Peace Prize 1984 - Presentation Speech] Reference

For close on half a century this man was allowed to philosophise unhindered on the streets of his hometown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Socrates ? a man for our times] Reference

By these means, they acquired a great renown; to philosophise was continually in their mouths and their writings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference

And on the subject of intelligent design, anyone is free to philosophise about how a designer would create life on earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACLU wins in Dover] Reference

To achieve this, he upholds freedom to philosophise, and sets out to reconcile, whenever possible, apparently contrasting views.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antonio Rosmini] Reference

We will speculate, agitate, cogitate, publicise, dream and philosophise over afternoon tea, on walks, talks and various outings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference

"There's little else to do in the Middle East in the thirteenth century, I assure you, except eat pomegranates and philosophise ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elric At The End of Time]

Then let him philosophise; let him paint his pictures, sing his songs, write his messages of hope or despair and throw them into the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacob's Ladder]

It isn't safe even to philosophise when they are around.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Art of Reading] Reference

Men begin now to feel that to philosophise is not to sneer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godolphin, Complete] Reference

But I say, old fellow, it won't do to stop and philosophise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ernest Bracebridge School Days] Reference

This is the way we philosophise 'when we come to particulars.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference

To cure his sadness he tried to philosophise, and reasoned thus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thais] Reference

Flossie had begun to philosophise, to annoy destiny with questions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Divine Fire] Reference

He is only in a quite secondary sense the animal who can philosophise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference

Metaphysics have no great interest for me, but I philosophise in a way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born in Exile] Reference

It is but right to add that he did not philosophise much on the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Buffalo Runners A Tale of the Red River Plains] Reference

It is a temptation which we must resist, to philosophise too much about war.    From Wordnik.com.  [Escape, and Other Essays] Reference

And remember, don't lose him or philosophise him out of existence on the way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance] Reference

Puritan bray, upon which one must philosophise asinically to unveil the charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

But when death comes into a household, we do not philosophise -- we only feel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Character] Reference

He was allowed but scant time to philosophise upon these ethnological phenomena.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Slaves] Reference

I have learnt to philosophise in my travels; and if I had not, complaint was useless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1] Reference

His next essay was to philosophise; but in this attempt too he was entirely at fault.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna St. Ives] Reference

To brood about danger, to apprehend or anticipate or philosophise may imperil 'nerve.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on religion at the front] Reference

If mosquitoes could reason and philosophise, the prospect of such a meal might remain as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where No Fear Was] Reference

But we, who, having no coherent philosophy, must not let ourselves philosophise, only see that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture and Anarchy] Reference

Most of them in the end sit down with our sixth Henry or second Richard and philosophise on shepherds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference

"The crown of life" -- philosophise as he might, that word had still its meaning, still its inspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crown of Life] Reference

He enjoyed managing people, and liked to philosophise about how to get the best out of different employees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest financial, market & economic news and analysis | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The only voice it has is the Puritan bray, upon which one must philosophise asinically to unveil the charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference