All 10 Uses of
muse
in
Wuthering Heights
- I mused: I had a presentiment in the bottom of my heart that he had better have remained away.†
Chpt 10mused = thought -- possibly aloud
- I saw him smile to himself — grin rather — and lapse into ominous musing whenever Mrs. Linton had occasion to be absent from the apartment.†
Chpt 10 *musing = reflecting (thinking) -- perhaps aloud
- And,' added she musingly, 'the thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all.†
Chpt 15
- I mused to myself; and sore misgivings came over me that there was slight hope of that.†
Chpt 19mused = thought -- possibly aloud
- 'Black hair and eyes!' mused Linton.†
Chpt 20
- But I've been as happy musing by myself among those stones, under that old church: lying, through the long June evenings, on the green mound of her mother's grave, and wishing — yearning for the time when I might lie beneath it.†
Chpt 25musing = reflecting (thinking) -- perhaps aloud
- The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the library; now musing mournfully — one of us despairingly — on our loss, now venturing conjectures as to the gloomy future.†
Chpt 29
- Mr. Heathcliff looked at him a bit, and then silently resumed his breakfast and his interrupted musing.†
Chpt 33
- I mused.†
Chpt 34mused = thought -- possibly aloud
- 'No,' she repeated, and continued sauntering on, pausing at intervals to muse over a bit of moss, or a tuft of blanched grass, or a fungus spreading its bright orange among the heaps of brown foliage; and, ever and anon, her hand was lifted to her averted face.†
Chpt 22 *
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 goddessThe 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.
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, muse is used as a synonym for "poet".