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
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
Forever smiling thro' its season brief, The one in glory and the one in grief: Forever painting to our museful sight, How lowlihead and loveliness unite.
From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George
Thus museful rode the Tyrant, princely plumed, To his high seat upon the sacred rock: And Solon, blank beside his rule, resumed The meditation which that passing mock Had buffeted awhile to sallowness.
From Poems — Volume 2 by Meredith, George
Her museful ardours were chilled by the looks of Ormond.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
