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muse as in:  her musings

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  • Let me muse on it on a while and I'll get back to you.
    muse = reflect (think) deeply
  • As he mused about these things, he realized that he had to choose between thinking of himself as the poor victim of a thief and as an adventurer in quest of his treasure.   (source)
    mused = thought
  • This would not do, I mused, as the class proceeded with its sums.   (source)
  • “Perhaps,” Mr. Crepsley mused, tugging at his chin and stroking his scar.   (source)
    mused = thought (reflected deeply on a subject)
  • Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.   (source)
    musings = thoughts
  • "Hmmm…" he mused.   (source)
    mused = thought deeply on a subject
  • I scribble Nathaniel's musings in my spiral notebook, trying to keep up with a running soliloquy that is somewhat reminiscent of Joseph Mitchell's Professor Sea Gull character.   (source)
    musings = thoughts
  • Well, college is supposed to be broadening, he muses, and there's no doubt he'll get broadened this year with a roommate like Cedric.   (source)
    muses = thinks
  • He was obviously morning irritable, and none of that, she mused, made him any less attractive.   (source)
    mused = thought (reflected)
  • Nice life if you can get it, she mused,   (source)
    mused = thought
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  • Still Theresa mused all night, and the next day too.   (source)
    mused = thought (reflected deeply) on a subject
  • He said musingly: "You see, I loved Leslie."   (source)
    musingly = while reflecting (thinking deeply or remembering)
  • Everyone has a secret life, she mused.   (source)
    mused = thought
  • "You'd better muse over your lessons and sums," said Marilla, concealing her delight at this development of the situation.   (source)
    muse = reflect (think) deeply on a subject
  • 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.   (source)
    musing = thinking (reflecting deeply)
  • We mused over the thought for a while and soon the quiet stretched into long minutes   (source)
    mused = reflected (thought) deeply on a subject
  • musing upon the king my brother's wreck   (source)
    musing = reflecting (thinking)
  • "If only there were just one," he mused.†   (source)
  • That's probably why after they flew somewhat away they returned for one more pass and on that one I gave no signal at all (in fact I may have even turned my back to the plane as it passed)," McCunn mused philosophically.†   (source)
  • Or after dawn, for that matter, Officer Delinko mused.†   (source)
  • "Nice structure," he mused.†   (source)
  • "I remember buying this medical tubing and wondering what on Earth I'd ever use it for," mused Chuck, kneeling in the snow.†   (source)
  • "I wonder if it will ever change," Friedrich mused, shifting closer to the older woman.†   (source)
  • "Who are you?" he mused.†   (source)
  • I went through a range of ridiculous musings that yielded nothing from Charlie.†   (source)
  • I am witnessing the work of a master, mused Lieutenant Collet as he tweaked his audio gear and listened to Fache's voice coming through the headphones.†   (source)
  • "I wonder if we'll get to visit the White House while we're there," Amanda mused.†   (source)
  • Harry's musings were ended by Professor Dumbledore, who stood up at the staff table.†   (source)
  • "I might turn the house over to a charitable society," he mused, "to be used as a drug-rehabilitation center.†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming out on this cold November night, this night that will live in history, this night that for the first time on any stage anywhere, you have listened to the smooth saxophonical musings of that prodigy of the reed, Mr. Sleepy LaBone!†   (source)
  • No. Maybe I should go on TV,' Mr. McCabe mused.†   (source)
  • Dr. Dolder mused.†   (source)
  • "I don't need to worry," the woman mused.†   (source)
  • "Lord Eddard had a brother named Brandon as well," Jaime mused.†   (source)
  • "At least it doesn't say die," Kate mused.†   (source)
  • Butter, he said, musing.†   (source)
  • "A long flight for a small vessel, Van Diemen's Land to the Hawaiis," Szpirglas mused.†   (source)
  • But he was able to say musingly, "To be or not to be."†   (source)
  • It doesn't make sense that this school thinks you need to be in special ed," his grandmother mused.†   (source)
  • Then Judith emerged from her own musings long enough to explain.†   (source)
  • He hummed quietly and mused to himself, lightly fingering his notebook of verses.†   (source)
  • 'One thing, Commander,' mused Foaly.†   (source)
  • She mused about the ideal wallpaper for the kitchen and the color of tile in the entryway, the fabric of the curtains in the living room, and how to decorate the mantel over the fireplace.†   (source)
  • Shmuel mused out loud.†   (source)
  • It's true," Dad mused.†   (source)
  • Of course, I didn't share any of these musings with Amy, so I'm sure I came off as the goldbricker I so often am.†   (source)
  • I thought these remote places would be teeming with monsters, he mused.†   (source)
  • "Why do they have to grow up?" he mused and kissed her on the forehead.†   (source)
  • "Benares," mused Martin Silenus.†   (source)
  • In the middle of my musing she turned to look in my direction and caught me staring at her.†   (source)
  • But as it happened, I had just been musing about how much my prospects seemed to have improved and how successfully Mameha and I had kept her plan from Hatsumomo—whatever her plan was.†   (source)
  • He strokes his short, brush mustache with his fingers, musing.†   (source)
  • "Your father," she often mused, "he'd give anybody his last dime."†   (source)
  • "Exasperation," mused Mianaai.†   (source)
  • Later, these musings about fire would come to seem like prophecy.†   (source)
  • Musing, lost in the scene, I did not notice that the dogs were slowing and had stopped until my stomach rammed into the handlebar of the sled.†   (source)
  • As I led Mr. Smit into the back hall, we heard him musing to himself, "I once knew a Smit on Koning Straat...."†   (source)
  • I mused, "I guess we should have brought some bees over in our pockets too.†   (source)
  • out of the current others referred to as the present, a photograph or an earring or a particular shawl worn on a particular occasion, and Nadia encountered each day objects that took her into Saeed's past, a book or a music collection or a sticker on the inside of a drawer, and evoked emotions from her own childhood, and jagged musings on the fate of her parents and her sister, and Saeed, for his part, was inhabiting a chamber that had been his only briefly, years ago, when relatives from afar or abroad used to come to visit, and being billeted here again conjured up for him echoes of a better era, and so in these several ways these three people sharing this one apartmen†   (source)
  • Perhaps the governor had them there to keep peace, and they mixed up their orders," Grandma mused.†   (source)
  • After a long silent time during which Lestat paced and I sat there musing, plumbing my mind for what I might do or say to Babette or, deeper still, for the answer to a harder question-what did I feel for Babette?†   (source)
  • "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.†   (source)
  • Commentators mused on the likely implications of the tact that neither Megan's phone nor her hank cards had been used for more than a week.†   (source)
  • In the control room Ramius mused.†   (source)
  • She did not notice; she had gone away again, her gaze dim and musing.†   (source)
  • He hurried away, leaving Blomkvist to his solitary musings.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps—" he mused for a long time.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps I should at that," the Baron mused.†   (source)
  • "I guess he came alone," Nardo said musingly.†   (source)
  • They didn't know how hard it was to be diplomatic, to excavate lively prose from incoherent musings.†   (source)
  • I thought back to the interviewer, musing over how funny it was that I'd been taught plenty of disarming techniques for interviews or negotiations, but when it came to boys, I was left to figure it out alone.†   (source)
  • These weren't the musings of some random Brookline doctor—these had to be the ideas of its warden.†   (source)
  • Dad, musing into his glass of corn bread and milk, said nothing.†   (source)
  • "We could sell it," he mused.†   (source)
  • Such musings were meant only to lift their spirits and the women knew that their journey was not over, nor would their struggle for survival become easier.†   (source)
  • Another method of escape, suicide, replaced them in his musings; and despite the jailer's precautions (no mirror, no belt or tie or shoelaces), he had devised a way to do it.†   (source)
  • Caroline came down most weekends as well, Wally in tow, and puttered around the house examining her handiwork and musing about other changes she might make.†   (source)
  • He mused on the question.†   (source)
  • They were musings, idle thoughts, full sometimes of the old dreaminess, but not the kind of thing she cared to dwell on.†   (source)
  • He was recalled from his musings by Mandy's voice.†   (source)
  • "Vosch could have been lying, I guess," Ben mused.†   (source)
  • She mused about this, thinking about something I knew we'd hear more about later.†   (source)
  • "Good times," Mark mused as he got more comfortable.†   (source)
  • The country had no poets as yet, and Washington was not known to be inclined to poetry or poetic musings.†   (source)
  • Sabina proceeded with her melancholy musings: What if she had a man who ordered her about?†   (source)
  • The old king watched, remote from the queen, though she shared his bed, and he mused.†   (source)
  • "You started that letter on a hike in rural Haiti," I mused aloud, thinking now of those arid highlands, of medieval peasant huts, donkey ambulances.†   (source)
  • 'It's a funny thing about this valve,' Orr mused aloud.†   (source)
  • I was lost in thought about something, musing along, staring at the ground, for a whole block.†   (source)
  • "Mm," she mused.†   (source)
  • "We shall see," mused M. Renard, turning on his heel.†   (source)
  • Musing upon this, I reached a better understanding of why so many Iranians are meek followers of authority.†   (source)
  • "It's just musing, that's all," I say, looking at my feet.†   (source)
  • Matzoh was the only edible thing they gave us," she mused, rolling her cigarette thoughtfully between her fingers.†   (source)
  • "Right up to the end?" he mused.†   (source)
  • Ramona mused, knowing there was no answer.†   (source)
  • 'When did I first begin to guess?' he mused, searching back in memory.†   (source)
  • "Might be a hard case," Wesley mused.†   (source)
  • "Why he wishes to possess the Geographica, I cannot say," mused Samaranth, "but there are already too many plans afoot in the lands, and were it to fall into his hands, it would not bode well for the Archipelago."†   (source)
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muse as in:  She was his muse

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  • She is my muse. She inspired all the songs on that album.
  • Instead of leaving me alone to "find my muse" (a real quote, I swear), he lands on the stool next to me and starts criticizing.   (source)
    muse = source of inspiration
  • I can name the nine Muses and the seven loves of Zeus.   (source)
    muses = mythological goddesses thought to inspire artists
  • Lewis Carroll's Muse Alice Liddell to marry Prince Leopold   (source)
    muse = source of inspiration
  • It says something about the type of writing I had been doing that my muse could flee without my noticing.   (source)
  • Maybe, Abdullah thought, Father had sold the Wahdatis his muse as well.   (source)
  • Each is as true today as it will always be, and for Nathaniel the music is both medicine and muse, no less an inspiration now than it was before his fall.   (source)
  • I guess you could say, I had a muse.   (source)
    muse = the source of an artist's inspiration -- especially a person
  • On the third floor I followed signs to collections, hoping that if I read several theater reviews in the local newspaper, it would spark my muse.   (source)
    muse = source of inspiration
  • But on that fateful day, the thought of taking scalpel to Sister Mary Joseph Praise—his surgical assistant, his closest confidante, his typist, his muse, and the woman he realized he loved—terrified him.   (source)
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  • My muse had fled.   (source)
  • The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.   (source)
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  • He took a drag and watched the smoke spiral toward the ceiling where the Muses looked down from the clouds.†   (source)
  • The muses paused their concert.†   (source)
  • "Looks like insurance will cover about half the cost," she muses as she navigates the website.†   (source)
  • "I don't know, Mitch," Morrie muses, adjusting his glasses as he reads, "with work like this, we may have to get you back here for grad school."†   (source)
  • I swear, if I ever met my mom's muses, I'd give 'em such swift kicks in the toga they wouldn't know what hit them.†   (source)
  • Show him, Muses mine, that I may know him!†   (source)
  • I heard her muse, presumably to Arwyl.†   (source)
  • Minerva muses aloud.†   (source)
  • "Then maybe we should call the baby Verdi," Donald muses, just as the opera surges to its closing bars, and the tape ends with a click.†   (source)
  • "What's the matter with these white folks?" she'd muse after reading some craziness in the New York Daily News.†   (source)
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  • Nathaniel plays Bach and Beethoven as if he's a young student again, the music filled with a sense of urgency and possibility Every few minutes he turns toward the dresser, checking in with his mother and his muse.†   (source)
  • She muse.†   (source)
  • I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend...John Milton, Paradise Lost   .†   (source)
  • Sitting in these empty rooms, Y.T. would study the old furniture scrapes on the floors, the dents in the sheetrock, and muse over them like an archaeologist, wondering about the longdeparted families who had once lived here.†   (source)
  • The muse had arrived, every bit as welcome as an unexpected check in the mail.†   (source)
  • "I guess this way you don't have to worry about dealing with Signora Luciano as your mother-in-law," Harriet muses.†   (source)
  • "I wonder what kind of cereal I should get for Becca," Terry muses as they drape the Irish Wreath quilt on the girl's bed, across the hall from her grandparents' suite.†   (source)
  • "Obey the muse," Liz said.†   (source)
  • You might take walks and muse.†   (source)
  • Probing this idle refuse, shaking his head, he finally found a tattered matchbox, lit his pipe and began to muse, pacing the room.†   (source)
  • In the spring, as the azaleas were blooming, he began to muse more often on the nature of God.†   (source)
  • Every High Priestess has a poet who recites ancient verse to evoke the presence of the Muse as she enters into her rituals.†   (source)
  • Sucking on a piece of breakfast sausage caught in his back teeth, he began to muse.†   (source)
  • They both have jobs-a busy day ahead with people to see, just like a couple of young professionals, Cedric muses.†   (source)
  • In the days to follow the hacendado would come up to the corral where they'd shaped the manada and he and John Grady would walk among the mares and John Grady would argue their points and the hacendado would muse and walk away a fixed distance and stand looking back and nod and muse again and walk off with his eyes to the ground to a fresh vantage point and then look up to see the mare anew, willing to see a new mare should one present itself.†   (source)
  • As Eragon continued to muse upon the subject, another question occurred to him.†   (source)
  • "No?" he muses, sucking in a lungful.†   (source)
  • Should she ever come to Cambridge, he would be "happy to see a person so favored by the muses."†   (source)
  • It is one thing to muse about experts' abusing their position and another to prove it.†   (source)
  • Ann muses aloud.†   (source)
  • I thought of muses as inventions to protect one's insight, to avoid questions like "Where do your ideas come from?"†   (source)
  • "It's not enough time," he muses.†   (source)
  • And will your muse keep you working all night?†   (source)
  • Once when the Muse was on her, she sat staring into space so long I got worried.†   (source)
  • Still, Felicia muses, what would he be like in bed?†   (source)
  • If I hold my breath and squint, I can see where she gets that: all Muses are supposed to be female, and one of these is not.†   (source)
  • Too much rice wine," muses Ralph's mother.†   (source)
  • We washed the dishes by candlelight, and though I wanted to muse about Angela's errand, to ask questions about the two of them and their trip to the movies, I felt somehow that it was best just to leave it alone.†   (source)
  • Of course, too, I knew for certain when I was your age that I'd never be forced to teach, that if my Muses failed to provide for me, I'd go grind lenses somewhere, like Booker T. Washington.†   (source)
  • "Sam," the other guard said, "I don't think making friends with the prince's muse is good for your health."†   (source)
  • No, they were folksy, quick to muse, to drift off while talking about a certain flight, the weather a certain day when the shuttle shot through a hole in the clouds.†   (source)
  • He muses.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, now to help summon my own muse, I tried to read Marlowe, but for some reason that lilting music failed to stir me as it usually did.†   (source)
  • Heavy-minded, ponderously reasonable, he muses on the fitness of unreasonable things, and drops like old wood clothespins to a basket the pros and cons of giving a child a life devoid of vision.†   (source)
  • And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.†   (source)
  • The name referred to a dark, steel-gray house decorated with Caryatides and statues of the Muses holding cymbals, lyres, and masks.†   (source)
  • "It should be," muses my friend, "twice as tall as a boy.†   (source)
  • But even though the kids quit responding and reverted back to their classical pose of scholars erect in their desks and lusting for knowledge, Top Cat gyrated on, a grin like a jack-o'—lantern carved on his face and eyes raised in adoration of some muse deep within him.†   (source)
  • A couple of Muses sat on a bench strumming flaming lyres, but their hearts didn't seem to be in it.†   (source)
  • Sometimes I claimed that was because I couldn't decide between the Nine Muses.†   (source)
  • My mom likes to work when the muses move her.†   (source)
  • "And I guess this way he didn't have to worry about paying you any more pennies," Harriet muses.†   (source)
  • The Nine Muses were my constant companions, all of them beautiful in their own way.†   (source)
  • I busted out some footwork the Nine Muses and I had been working on just before the war with Gaea.†   (source)
  • "Might fetch a price somewhere," Miller muses.†   (source)
  • "I wonder where your mother stands on all this," Grandfather muses.†   (source)
  • "Hmm, besides that," he muses, his lips on my shoulder.†   (source)
  • With little effort, she could calculate it to the day, she muses.†   (source)
  • The second painting is called Three Muses.†   (source)
  • They'll probably fire the Nine Muses and hire you to oversee all the arts.†   (source)
  • "I suppose you could go west," he muses.†   (source)
  • Now why did they go and put these on you?" she muses, ripping open my Velcro wrist restraints.†   (source)
  • "I suppose this is why people have children, isn't it?" she muses.†   (source)
  • "Normally, I'd take an eye for such insolence," the Commandant muses.†   (source)
  • If only it were that simple, he muses, as Ms.†   (source)
  • That one with the Greek landscape—the Nine Muses would love that.†   (source)
  • The only shades, here, seem to be shades of white, Cedric muses, like it must be in heaven.†   (source)
  • Yes sir, he muses, feeling a weight lift.†   (source)
  • It's what has taken them this far, Barbara muses— through apprehension, doubt, even fear.†   (source)
  • God, he muses, they think about each other more when they're not talking than when they are.†   (source)
  • It's what Franklin does so well, Tom muses, as he listens to the polished student expound.†   (source)
  • It's not like Barbara made his bed back home, she muses, but it doesn't matter.†   (source)
  • Maybe someday, he muses, he'll have a son who will be like that.†   (source)
  • The Nine Muses cranked up the tunes, and I realized the music was whatever you wanted it to be: the gods could listen to classical and the younger demigods heard hip-hop or whatever, and it was all the same sound track.†   (source)
  • That reminded me of something the Muses once told me—how they could actually hear the ink drying on new pages of poetry.†   (source)
  • For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt.†   (source)
  • Hawkers in the market offered to sell me ambrosia-on-a-stick, and a new shield, and a genuine glitter-weave replica of the Golden Fleece, as seen on Hephaestus-TV The nine muses were tuning their instruments for a concert in the park while a small crowd gathered-satyrs and naiads and a bunch of good-looking teenagers who might've been minor gods and goddesses.†   (source)
  • I shivered and concentrated on happy thoughts: the Bahamas, the Nine Muses in perfect harmony, the many horrible punishments I would visit on Cade and Mikey when I became a god again.†   (source)
  • I promised myself that once I achieved immortality again, I would assemble the Nine Muses and together we would create an ode, a hymnal to the power of bacon, which would move the heavens to tears and cause rapture across the universe.†   (source)
  • Beautiful and well, Yolanda muses, that's what she had wanted with Clive, all things beautiful and well, instead of their obsessive, consuming passion that left her-each time Clive left her-exhausted and distraught.†   (source)
  • Foreword I have long despised artists' chatter about muses—"voices" that speak to them and enable a vision, the source of which they could not otherwise name.†   (source)
  • Felicity muses.†   (source)
  • Felicity muses.†   (source)
  • Ann muses.†   (source)
  • Felicity muses.†   (source)
  • "How?" he muses.†   (source)
  • Who's he to be writing this letter, he muses, a letter from prison to an Ivy League college; sure they don't get much jail mail in the Ivies.†   (source)
  • Classmates are smacking his back, punching his shoulder, finally accepting him, he muses, now that it's all over.†   (source)
  • But not so much anymore, Cedric muses, closing psychology for today and stretching some kinks out of his lower back.†   (source)
  • People do, all the time; he muses today, as he often does when he stands at this stop, about whether coming out here means he's going a little crazy.†   (source)
  • As the choir finishes up a haunting rendition of "I'm Gonna Make It," Long scans the transfixed crowd-close to five hundred today— and muses that he already has "made it."†   (source)
  • That broken statue is the same sort of cheap shot that is slung at Cedric each day, he muses, and here this guy has managed to get pretty far despite all the naysayers.†   (source)
  • One that has the human spirit as its subject and the future as its muse!†   (source)
  • You can't c-c-c-compose this poetry unless your m-m-muse is shedding blood, can you?†   (source)
  • I found no muse on Hyperion during those first years.†   (source)
  • I moved from room to room in King Billy's abandoned palace, working on my poem, waiting for my muse.†   (source)
  • It's my muse," I said, and turned, and went back to my room to write.†   (source)
  • SHIT, it printed out, WHAT DID i DO WITH MY MUSE?†   (source)
  • I muse, I mope, I ruminate," he wrote in the seclusion of his diary.†   (source)
  • I always thought of you as someone who might muse on death.†   (source)
  • But I had a feeling that I was yet to make many more enemies as long as I was the Prince's muse.†   (source)
  • Whatever it is called—muse, insight, inspiration, "the dark finger that guides,"†   (source)
  • He seemed to muse over it.†   (source)
  • My muse has spoken!†   (source)
  • It was a different thing altogether to see them at the onset of summer, having received an ovation, changed one's appearance, and escaped into the night.... For while in the classical tradition there was no Muse of architecture, I think we can agree that under the right circumstances, the appearance of a building can impress itself upon one's memory, affect one's sentiments, and even change one's life.†   (source)
  • I needed no muse for my inspiration.†   (source)
  • This thing that is going to kill us tomorrow-my muse, our maker, our unmaker-it's traveled back through time.†   (source)
  • No. Has your m-m-muse returned?†   (source)
  • Then, on a cool morning with my sleeping room rocking slightly in the upper branches of my tree on the Templar world, I awoke to a gray sky and the realization that my muse had fled.†   (source)
  • Does the muse grant requests?†   (source)
  • I farcast and flew to my favorite places, watching the suns set on the windblown prairies of Grass and the night fogs obscure the ebony crags of Nevermore, but although I emptied my mind of tbe trash-prose of the endless Dying Earth, there came no whispers from my muse.†   (source)
  • No muse appeared.†   (source)
  • When you think about it, the cause-effect begins to resemble some mad logic-loop by the data artist Carolus or perhaps a print by Escher: the Shrike had come into existence because of the incantatory powers of my poem but the poem could not have existed without the threat/presence of the Shrike as muse.†   (source)
  • The Shrike was my muse.†   (source)
  • My muse had fled.†   (source)
  • Me with my muse.†   (source)
  • My muse had fled.†   (source)
  • Her last design was still up—the key to Annabeth's plan, inspired by the most unlikely muse ever: Frank Zhang.†   (source)
  • It was a month or so after, when Misty and I had had plenty of time to muse over my situation, plenty of time to create numerous plots, all of them possible, that I took Misty's advice and told my mother that I needed my birth certificate for a report I was doing at school.†   (source)
  • I lifted myself up from the slab of stone that had served as my resting place, for how long, I could only muse.†   (source)
  • Euterpe, Sophie had thought, music's sweet Muse, passing quickly on ... Die Himmel erahlen die Ehre Gottes, and seiner Hande Werk zeigt an das Firmament!†   (source)
  • He seemed to muse on it.†   (source)
  • And all the Muses still were in their prime ....†   (source)
  • Minerva breathes, and Apollo guides me, and nine Muses point out to me the Bears.†   (source)
  • He sobers, muses.†   (source)
  • And Plutarch numbers the ecstasies of the orgiastic rites of Pan along with the ecstasy of Cybele, the Bacchic frenzy of Dionysos, the poetic frenzy inspired by the Muses, the warrior frenzy of the god Ares (= Mars), and, fiercest of all, the frenzy of love, as illustrations of that divine "enthusiasm" that overturns the reason and releases the forces of the destructive-creative dark.†   (source)
  • She muses.†   (source)
  • He muses.†   (source)
  • In this crisis, however, she is saved by Marija Berczynskas, whom the muses suddenly visit.†   (source)
  • "Is it," Mr. George still muses, "blank cartridge or ball?"†   (source)
  • In an engraver's shop on the boulevard there is an Italian print of one of the Muses.†   (source)
  • "Monsieur, you are the only representive of the muses here," said Gringoire.†   (source)
  • It was Dinah's mode of invoking the domestic Muses.†   (source)
  • Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame.†   (source)
  • We have listened too long to the courtly muses of Europe.†   (source)
  • The institution was a boarding school, a model farm, an academy of higher learning, and a temple for the muses—for there were constant theatrical and musical performances.†   (source)
  • He talked of Greenwich Village now instead of "noon-swirled moons," and met winter muses, unacademic, and cloistered by Forty-second Street and Broadway, instead of the Shelleyan dream-children with whom he had regaled their expectant appreciation.†   (source)
  • His fiddle is out of tune, and there is no rosin on his bow, but still he is an inspired man—the hands of the muses have been laid upon him.†   (source)
  • And every now and then he turns upon his companions, nodding, signaling, beckoning frantically—with every inch of him appealing, imploring, in behalf of the muses and their call.†   (source)
  • Marija has apparently concluded about two hours ago that if the altar in the corner, with the deity in soiled white, be not the true home of the muses, it is, at any rate, the nearest substitute on earth attainable.†   (source)
  • These are new poetry of the first Bard[282]—poetry without stop—hymn, ode and epic,[283] poetry still flowing, Apollo[284] and the Muses[285] chanting still.†   (source)
  • As for Favourite, O nymphs and muses!†   (source)
  • "Your Rambouillet is in full conclave," he said, looking round at all the party; "the graces and the muses."†   (source)
  • The mirrors, the pictures had great flamboyant frames; the ceiling was deeply vaulted and painted over with naked muses and cherubs.†   (source)
  • MUSAGETES
    Among this witches' revelry
    His way one gladly loses;
    And, truly, it would easier be
    Than to command the Muses.†   (source)
  • The Muses were uncomfortable goddesses, I think,—obliged always to carry rolls and musical instruments about with them.†   (source)
  • No. Melt all these down into one, with the three Graces, the nine Muses, and fourteen biscuit-bakers' daughters from Oxford Street, and make a woman half as lovely.†   (source)
  • SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE I FELL in with a humorist on my travels, who had in his chamber a cast of the Rondanini Medusa, and who assured me that the name which that fine work of art bore in the catalogues was a misnomer, as he was convinced that the sculptor who carved it intended it for Memory, the mother of the Muses.'†   (source)
  • One, when the play is out, goes home to cards;
    A wild night on a wench's breast another chooses:
    Why should you rack, poor, foolish bards,
    For ends like these, the gracious Muses?†   (source)
  • But besides those who make good in our imagination the place of muses and of Delphic Sibyls,[444] are there not women who fill our vase with wine and roses to the brim, so that the wine runs over and fills the house with perfume; who inspire us with courtesy; who unloose our tongues, and we speak; who anoint our eyes, and we see?†   (source)
  • Now tell me, Muses, dwellers on Olympos, how fire first fell on the Akhaian ships!†   (source)
  • He sought to speak not a personal language but the authoritative speech of the Muses.†   (source)
  • So did the flawless harp held by Apollo and heavenly songs in choiring antjphon that all the Muses sang.†   (source)
  • I copy'd and sent him a great part of it, which set in a strong light the folly of pursuing the Muses with any hope of advancement by them.†   (source)
  • Heaven-dwelling Muses of Olympos, .†   (source)
  • Pride had made him say he could outsing the very Muses, daughters of Zeus who bears the stormcloud for a shield.†   (source)
  • As daughters of Mnemosyne, "memory," the Muses personify oral tradition, and Greek song traditions about Troy constitute the third and most immediate context in which to locate The Iliad.†   (source)
  • Tell me now, Muses, dwelling on Olympos, as you are heavenly, and are everywhere, and everything is known to you—while we can only hear the tales and never know— who were the Danaan lords and officers?†   (source)
  • The rank and file I shall not name; I could not, if I were gifted with ten tongues and voices unfaltering, and a brazen heart within me, unless the Muses, daughters of Olympian Zeus beyond the stormcloud, could recall all those who sailed for the campaign at Troy.†   (source)
  • Homer's notional position as the first of epic poets owes much to the fact that Assurbanipal's library in Nineveh, where the so-called standard version of Gilgamesh we read today was edited, was destroyed at the end of the seventh century B.C. The poem thus began to retreat from sight until it was rediscovered, accidentally, in 1872.6 The mothers of Homer are, by contrast, quite easy to name: these are the Muses invoked by all Greek epic poets at the beginning of their songs.†   (source)
  • Next came the men of Pylos and Arene, that trim town, and Thryon where they ford Alpheios river, Aipy high and stony, Kyperisseeis, Amphigeneia, and Pteleos and Helos—Dorion, too, where once the Muses, meeting Thamyris, the Thracian, on his way from Oikhalia— from visiting Eurytos, the Oikhalian— ended his singing.†   (source)
  • Muses in your bright Olympian halls, tell me now what Akhaian most excelled in winning bloodstained spoils of war when the Earthshaker bent the battle line, Aias Telamonios cut down the Mysian leader, Hyrtios Gyrtiades; Antilokhos killed Mermeros and Phalkes; Meriones, Morys and Hippotion; Teukros, Prothoon and Periphetes.†   (source)
  • His voice would falter and die away, and he would fall silent and muse.†   (source)
  • By the river the reed-pipes, the muse's temple, the sacred wood again.†   (source)
  • He seems to muse now upon a sort of timeless and beautiful infallibility in his unpredictable frustrations.†   (source)
  • She in turn seemed to muse now, quiet, scarcebreathing, yet still with nothing of selfpity or retrospect: "I had thought of that.†   (source)
  • He seems to muse upon one hand which lies upon his lap, the thumb and forefinger of which rub slowly together with a kneading motion while he appears to watch with musing absorption.†   (source)
  • So she seems to muse upon the mounting road while the slowspitting and squatting men watch her covertly, believing that she is thinking about the man and the approaching crisis, when in reality she is waging a mild battle with that providential caution of the old earth of and with and by which she lives.†   (source)
  • RAGUENEAU (before the fire): My muse, retire, lest thy bright eyes be reddened by the fagot's blaze!†   (source)
  • His soul had loved to muse in secret on this desire.†   (source)
  • At first sight there seemed in these small documents to be absolutely nothing to muse over.†   (source)
  • By and by he says: "But the histrionic muse is the darling.†   (source)
  • And with this Alan fell into a muse, and for a long time sate very sad and silent.†   (source)
  • I, even I, have won a great victory for the Comic Muse.†   (source)
  • At times his mind seems far away, the Muse says naught—and then, presto!†   (source)
  • In the interests of the Comic Muse and of Truth, he would bring them to Windy Corner.†   (source)
  • Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian: We are but mortals, and must sing of man.†   (source)
  • My Muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth.†   (source)
  • The scout hesitated, and appeared to muse.†   (source)
  • It was not for me to muse over bygones, but to act with a cheerful spirit and a grateful heart.†   (source)
  • In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.†   (source)
  • Strangely enough, the decision of the question as to whether this were a ghost or Rogojin did not, for some reason or other, interest me nearly so much as it ought to have done;—I think I began to muse about something altogether different.†   (source)
  • 'Primus ego in patriam mecum...deducam Musas'; 'for I shall be the first, if I live, to bring the Muse into my country.'†   (source)
  • As we went, I kept looking across the water and sighing to myself; and though I took no heed of it, Alan had fallen into a muse.†   (source)
  • Indeed, so ample was the Muse's equipment that she permitted Mr. Harris, never a very robust criminal, to droop his head, to be forgotten, and to die.†   (source)
  • Her enthusiasm had become watery even before thirteen women resolutely removed their overshoes, sat down meatily, ate peppermints, dusted their fingers, folded their hands, composed their lower thoughts, and invited the naked muse of poetry to deliver her most improving message.†   (source)
  • But meanwhile she had the morning to herself, and could muse pleasantly on the disposal of its hours.†   (source)
  • And after five days, in which he did not more than muse idly upon the matter, he decided to deny the motion.†   (source)
  • Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse.†   (source)
  • All day long, during these walks, I had been able to muse upon the pleasure that there would be in the friendship of the Duchesse de Guermantes, in fishing for trout, in drifting by myself in a boat on the Vivonne; and, greedy for happiness, I asked nothing more from life, in such moments, than that it should consist always of a series of joyous afternoons.†   (source)
  • But she would often clasp her hands behind her head and muse when she was supposed to be working hard.†   (source)
  • Miss Bart, on her way to the station, had leisure to muse over her friend's words, and their peculiar application to herself.†   (source)
  • After he had faced the bitter fact that he was to leave the 'Aeneid' unfinished, and had decreed that the great canvas, crowded with figures of gods and men, should be burned rather than survive him unperfected, then his mind must have gone back to the perfect utterance of the 'Georgics,' where the pen was fitted to the matter as the plough is to the furrow; and he must have said to himself, with the thankfulness of a good man, 'I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.'†   (source)
  • When I had answered all of them, seemingly to his contentment, he fell into a still deeper muse, even the claret being now forgotten.†   (source)
  • CYRANO (very politely): If that Muse, Sir, who knows you not at all, Could claim acquaintance with you—oh, believe (Seeing how urn-like, fat, and slow you are) That she would make you taste her buskin's sole!†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • This was not a boast, but a hope, at once bold and devoutly humble, that he might bring the Muse (but lately come to Italy from her cloudy Grecian mountains), not to the capital, the palatia Romana, but to his own little I country'; to his father's fields, 'sloping down to the river and to the old beech trees with broken tops.'†   (source)
  • Thereupon he fell in a muse, looking in the embers of the fire; and presently, getting a piece of wood, he fashioned it in a cross, the four ends of which he blackened on the coals.†   (source)
  • Chapter XI: In Mrs. Vyse's Well-Appointed Flat The Comic Muse, though able to look after her own interests, did not disdain the assistance of Mr. Vyse.†   (source)
  • Never a word they spoke as they pulled ashore, being stunned with the horror of that screaming; but they had scarce set foot upon the beach when Hoseason woke up, as if out of a muse, and bade them lay hands upon Alan.†   (source)
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