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

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

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