museful
Example Sentences
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She was sitting in her own apartment in a museful posture.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
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 Opie Percival Read
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 W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
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
