museful

Example Sentences

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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 Brown, Charles Brockden

The museful, meditative spirit passes from one object of its wonder to another, and finds, at every pause it makes, that science is as strenuous in forbidding as in satisfying enquiry.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 by Various

She was sitting in her own apartment in a museful posture.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

There would not soon be found, I ween, One foot of ground among those bands For museful thought, So many shriekers of the keen Would cry aloud and clap their hands, All woe distraught!

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

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