museful
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
