All 21 Uses of
muse
in
Glory in Death
- Space was no problem within the units, Eve mused.†
Chpt 1mused = thought -- possibly aloud
- Her killer had moved fast, Eve mused.†
Chpt 1
- No, Eve was thinking, he mused.†
Chpt 2
- Even in sleep, he mused, she hesitated before turning to him.†
Chpt 2
- That ought to stick in your greedy craw, C. J., she mused.†
Chpt 3
- More likely an arm breaker, she mused, sizing it up as she sidled up to the bar.†
Chpt 3
- Just, she mused, within the limits of the law.†
Chpt 4
- He should have looked out of place in her kitchen, she mused, in his expensive, meticulously tailored linen shirt and with the luxurious mane of hair swept back from that remarkable face.†
Chpt 5
- A kind of honor guard, Eve mused, for a lawyer who cops had respected.†
Chpt 6
- It was bad enough as it was, Eve mused.†
Chpt 7
- Upper middle class all the way, she mused as she made her way around to the back of a sleek steel building with its pleasant view of the park.†
Chpt 7
- Fancy lunches, Eve mused.†
Chpt 8
- Eve mused.†
Chpt 8
- The little room, Nadine mused, was full of crowds.†
Chpt 10
- Then again, she mused, there were probably dozens of rooms she'd yet to tour in the labyrinth of the building.†
Chpt 10
- I can get the name of the spine twisters," she mused, thinking of Roarke.†
Chpt 10
- All of it, she mused, quick, fast, and in a hurry.†
Chpt 13
- Or luckier yet, she mused, and find some rambling confessional diary that described the murders.†
Chpt 14
- "He's better than I'd thought," Roarke mused.
Chpt 17 *mused = thought
- "She could be in there brooding," Eve mused, rocking on her heels as she considered.†
Chpt 18mused = thought -- possibly aloud
- Not that he couldn't handle her, Morse mused.†
Chpt 20
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) 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.