All 11 Uses of
muse
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Lingering and musing here, he heard the steps of a horse at the foot of the hill, and soon there appeared in view an auburn pony with a girl on its back, ascending by the path leading past the cattle-shed.†
Chpt 1-3 (definition 1)
- "She might," said Mrs. Hurst, musingly; "though she's only a visitor here.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- Gabriel remained musing and said nothing, for he was in doubt.†
Chpt 10-12 (definition 1)
- Oak took from his illimitable pockets a marking iron, dipped it into the pot, and imprinted on the buttocks of the infant sheep the initials of her he delighted to muse on—"B.†
Chpt 13-15 (definition 2) *
- CHAPTER XX PERPLEXITY—GRINDING THE SHEARS—A QUARREL "He is so disinterested and kind to offer me all that I can desire," Bathsheba mused.†
Chpt 19-21 (definition 1) *
- "Don't show it too much," said Coggan, musingly.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 1)
- He worked in a reverie now, musing upon her story, and upon the contradictoriness of that feminine heart which had caused her to speak more warmly to him to-night than she ever had done whilst unmarried and free to speak as warmly as she chose.†
Chpt 37-39 (definition 1)
- But Bathsheba, though she could feel, was not much given to futile dreaming, and her musings under this head were short and entirely confined to the times when Troy's neglect was more than ordinarily evident.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- "Perhaps not," she said, musingly.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- "Dear me—Casterbridge Union—and is Fanny come to this?" said Bathsheba, musing.†
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- The position of this having been marked, he hastened on to Casterbridge, only pausing and musing for a while at the hill whereon he had last seen Fanny alive.†
Chpt 43-45 (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.