museful
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- musefully adverb
Etymology
Origin of museful
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
Her museful ardours were chilled by the looks of Ormond.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
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