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 Brown, Charles Brockden
From weary eyes Pass the pale phantoms of our earth and skies; The gray head droops; the museful lips are closed On life's vain questionings and more vain replies!
From The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 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)
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
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
