Both Uses of
muse
in
The Call of the Wild
- There was nothing for the dogs to do, save the hauling in of meat now and again that Thornton killed, and Buck spent long hours musing by the fire.†
Chpt 7 *
- Here a yellow stream flows from rotted moose-hide sacks and sinks into the ground, with long grasses growing through it and vegetable mould overrunning it and hiding its yellow from the sun; and here he muses for a time, howling once, long and mournfully, ere he departs.†
Chpt 7 *
Definitions:
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(muse as in: her musings) reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud
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(muse as in: She was his muse) the source of an artist's inspiration - especially a person or mythological goddesseditor's notes: The 9 muses were the daughters of the Greek gods Zeus & Mnemosyne. Each of the muses was thought to inspire and preside over one of the arts.