All 4 Uses of
muse
in
As I Lay Dying
- Upon the impalpable plane of it their shadows form as upon a wall, as though like sound they had not gone very far away in falling but had merely congealed for a moment, immediate and musing.†
Chpt 17
- ...from behind his slack-faced astonishment he muses as though from beyond time, upon the ultimate outrage.
Chpt 17 *muses = thinks (reflects deeply)
- In the lantern light his face is calm, musing; slowly he strokes his hands on his rain-coated thighs in a gesture deliberate, final and composed.†
Chpt 17
- Through the undergrowth it goes with a plaintive sound, a musing sound; in it the unwinded cane and saplings lean as before a little gale, swaying without reflections as though suspended on invisible wires from the branches overhead.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(muse as in: her musings) reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud