museful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- musefully adverb
Etymology
Origin of museful
Example Sentences
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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
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
Then to the servile task the monarch turns His royal hands: each torch refulgent burns With added day: meanwhile in museful mood, Absorb'd in thought, on vengeance fix'd he stood.
From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander
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
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
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