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

There would not soon be found, I ween, One foot of ground among those bands For museful thought, So many shriekers of the keen Would cry aloud and clap their hands, All woe distraught!

From A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

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

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

Her museful ardours were chilled by the looks of Ormond.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden