museful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- musefully adverb
Etymology
Origin of museful
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
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
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