All 12 Uses of
muse
in
Jane Eyre
- Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots: I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.†
Chpt 1
- "I should indeed like to go to school," was the audible conclusion of my musings.†
Chpt 3 *
- I hardly know whether I had slept or not after this musing; at any rate, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious, which sounded, I thought, just above me.†
Chpt 15
- I was pondering these things, when an incident, and a somewhat unexpected one, broke the thread of my musings.†
Chpt 18
- "Well," said he, "what are you musing about?†
Chpt 19
- I mused on the funeral day, the coffin, the hearse, the black train of tenants and servants — few was the number of relatives — the gaping vault, the silent church, the solemn service.†
Chpt 22
- "She is far better as she is," concluded Adele, after musing some time: "besides, she would get tired of living with only you in the moon.†
Chpt 24
- He mused — for ten minutes he held counsel with himself: he formed his resolve, and announced it — "Enough! all shall bolt out at once, like the bullet from the barrel.†
Chpt 26
- I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven.†
Chpt 27
- But when St. John had mused a few moments he recommenced as imperturbably and with as much acumen as ever.†
Chpt 29
- Having brought my eventide musings to this point, I rose, went to my door, and looked at the sunset of the harvest-day, and at the quiet fields before my cottage, which, with the school, was distant half a mile from the village.†
Chpt 31
- "Ere many days," I said, as I terminated my musings, "I will know something of him whose voice seemed last night to summon me.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(muse as in: her musings) reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud