museful
Example Sentences
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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 was sitting in her own apartment in a museful posture.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
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 museful ardours were chilled by the looks of Ormond.
From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden
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
