museful
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Her museful ardours were chilled by the looks of Ormond.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
How, to a museful spirit, the heart and soul of man is reflected in the shows of nature!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various
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 Alexander Pope
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 Gilbert White
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