museful

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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

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

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 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

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)