All 7 Uses of
muse
in
The Age of Innocence
- Newland Archer, as he mused on these things, had once more turned his eyes toward the Mingott box.†
Chpt 2 *
- "Never, if we won't let them, I suppose," he mused, and recalled his mad outburst to Mr. Sillerton Jackson: "Women ought to be as free as we are—"†
Chpt 10
- He slouched off across Broadway, and Archer stood looking after him and musing on his last words.†
Chpt 14
- Shouldn't I know if she came up behind me, I wonder?" he mused; and suddenly he said to himself: "If she doesn't turn before that sail crosses the Lime Rock light I'll go back."†
Chpt 21
- "I don't care which of their visions comes true," Archer mused, "as long as the tunnel isn't built yet."†
Chpt 29
- The vision had roused a host of other associations, and he sat looking with new eyes at the library which, for over thirty years, had been the scene of his solitary musings and of all the family confabulations.†
Chpt 34
- "That's it: they feel equal to things—they know their way about," he mused, thinking of his son as the spokesman of the new generation which had swept away all the old landmarks, and with them the sign-posts and the danger-signal.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(muse as in: her musings) reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud