museful

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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

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

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 Read, Opie Percival

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

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