All 13 Uses of
muse
in
Blood Brothers, by Nora Roberts
- He'd been her towheaded baby boy, she mused, but his hair was darkening, and she suspected it would be a light brown eventually.†
p. 7.7mused = thought -- possibly aloud
- Timeless, all-American, she mused, absently drafting an article on the experience.†
p. 63.4
- There was something about her, he mused, that would have been bright and eye-catching even in mud brown.†
p. 74.4
- Maybe a business trip, Quinn mused as she let herself into her room.†
p. 81.8
- "Seeing an awful lot of the fucker for February," Fox mused.†
p. 95.8
- Silly hat, he mused, that was unaccountably appealing on her.†
p. 109.1
- Like to get a taste of that top-heavy mouth again, he mused.†
p. 143.6
- Sometimes, Cal mused, all really was right with the world.†
p. 146.1
- Could be a New York thing, he mused.†
p. 190.1
- Both times, Cal mused, had been a kind of warning.†
p. 222.5
- Potentially," Quinn mused, "someone local could get cozy with one of those dark-eyed beauties or hunks, and nine months later, oops.†
p. 255.8
- He was obviously morning irritable, and none of that, she mused, made him any less attractive.
p. 268.9 *mused = thought (reflected)
- Clear heads, he mused.†
p. 288.1mused = thought -- possibly aloud
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".