All 22 Uses of "muse" in "Naked in Death"

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Nice life if you can get it, she mused,
Chpt 5 *

mused = thought
Neat as a virgin, Eve mused, and cold as a whore.†
Chpt 1
Steel fired into flesh," she mused as she passed the bag back to Feeney.†
Chpt 1
The man understood security, she mused, was familiar enough with the building to know where and how to doctor the discs.†
Chpt 2
It wouldn't have been difficult, she mused, for Charles Monroe to slip out of his apartment, leaving his client sleeping, and slip into Sharon's.†
Chpt 2
Not the usual offer and acceptance of sympathy from strangers, Eve mused.†
Chpt 3
A tough shell, he mused, but he was certain there would be something soft and hot beneath.†
Chpt 3
Had to get himself someplace else," she mused.†
Chpt 6
"Doesn't happen much," Feeney mused.†
Chpt 6
No tacky Glida-Grills on this corner, she mused.†
Chpt 6
Something more here, he mused.†
Chpt 7
Olympus Resort, Eve mused, flipping through her mental files.†
Chpt 8
To punish, Eve mused.†
Chpt 9
No, she didn't flinch, he mused.†
Chpt 10
Obviously not, he mused.†
Chpt 11
Pretty woman, she mused.†
Chpt 13
Maybe he was protecting his family, she mused.†
Chpt 15
Too bad she wasn't looking for two men, Eve mused.†
Chpt 15
That was the question, Eve mused.†
Chpt 15
"That's a hefty AmEx bill," she mused.†
Chpt 16
Tidy as they came, she mused.†
Chpt 16
He was more himself once we were away," Rockman mused.†
Chpt 19

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(1) (muse as in: her musings)
reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud
(2) (muse as in: She was his muse)
the source of an artist's inspiration - especially a person or mythological goddess

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.
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
More rarely, muse is used as a synonym for "poet". In Shakespeare's time, muse could be used in the sense of being astonished or puzzled by something strange or unexpected.