museful

Example Sentences

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Her museful ardours were chilled by the looks of Ormond.

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

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

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

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

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