museful

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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

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

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

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

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