All 15 Uses of
muse
in
The House of Mirth
- The terrace at Bellomont on a September afternoon was a spot propitious to sentimental musings, and as Miss Bart stood leaning against the balustrade above the sunken garden, at a little distance from the animated group about the tea-table, she might have been lost in the mazes of an inarticulate happiness.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- She was roused from her musings by the approach of her cousin Jack Stepney who, at Gwen Van Osburgh's side, was returning across the garden from the tennis court.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- Gryce and Miss Van Osburgh were, in short, made for each other by every law of moral and physical correspondence——"Yet they wouldn't look at each other," Lily mused, "they never do.†
Chpt 1.4 (definition 1)
- Perhaps it's not over with Bertha after all," Mrs. Trenor musingly concluded; and went away to arrange her dinner-cards accordingly.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)
- The sound of wheels roused her from these musings, and leaning behind her shutters she saw the omnibus take up its freight.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 1)
- But meanwhile she had the morning to herself, and could muse pleasantly on the disposal of its hours.†
Chpt 1.5 (definition 2) *
- Lily mused.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 1)
- The words roused Selden from the musing fit into which he had fallen.†
Chpt 1.6 (definition 1) *
- Miss Bart, on her way to the station, had leisure to muse over her friend's words, and their peculiar application to herself.†
Chpt 1.7 (definition 2)
- Lily, leaning back among her pillows, gazed musingly at his letter.†
Chpt 1.13 (definition 1)
- And so he had leisure to muse on all its exquisite details, as a hard worker, on a holiday morning, might lie still and watch the beam of light travel gradually across his room.†
Chpt 1.14 (definition 2)
- If I inherit, I shall have to be careful of my figure," she mused, while the lawyer droned on through a labyrinth of legacies.†
Chpt 2.4 (definition 1)
- Mrs. Fisher mused.†
Chpt 2.6 (definition 1)
- Left to herself, Gerty mused distressfully upon her friend's plight, and her own inability to relieve it.†
Chpt 2.8 (definition 1)
- That evening in her own room Miss Bart—who had fled early from the heavy fumes of the basement dinner-table—sat musing upon the impulse which had led her to unbosom herself to Rosedale.†
Chpt 2.10 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (muse as in: her musings) reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud
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(2) (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.