museful
Example Sentences
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Not so the museful sage:—abroad he walks Contemplative, if haply he may find What cause controls the tempest's rage, or whence, Amidst the savage season, Winter smiles.
From The Natural History of Selborne by White, Gilbert
Her private talk, too, has its own brilliancy, spun, as it was here and there, out of a museful mind at the cooking of the dinner or of the family accounts.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, October 18, 1890 by Various
Then to the servile task the monarch turns His royal hands: each torch refulgent burns With added day: meanwhile in museful mood, Absorb'd in thought, on vengeance fix'd he stood.
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
She led him, in museful silence, At once through the open door, And his hope grew bright, like a fairy light, That flickered and danced before!
From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence
From the museful distance the giant removed his gaze and upon the boy at his side he bent a kindly look.
From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival
