All 21 Uses of
muse
in
Immortal in Death
- Which would be, Eve mused, a bit like a general rescheduling battles.†
Chpt 1mused = thought -- possibly aloud
- A question for Dr. Mira, she mused, thinking of the police psychiatrist she often consulted.†
Chpt 1
- It looked so easy, Eve mused.†
Chpt 1
- A pipe or a bat maybe, she mused.†
Chpt 2
- Broken, she mused, and dislocated.†
Chpt 2
- Something new," Eve mused.†
Chpt 3
- "Chemical formula," Roarke mused.†
Chpt 3
- "How is that possible?" he mused.†
Chpt 3
- It wouldn't take a genius, she mused.†
Chpt 5
- She was built, all right, Eve mused.†
Chpt 6
- She had a style to her," Jerry mused.†
Chpt 6
- "We talked to two of the "They could have done it together," Eve mused.†
Chpt 6
- A rather lordly view, she mused, as if the watcher soared quietly over the heads of the celebrants.†
Chpt 6
- So he wasn't using," Eve mused.†
Chpt 8
- He was, Eve mused, undoubtedly as screen friendly as any of the actors he worked with.†
Chpt 8
- The way the mind of a cop worked was a marvel, he mused.
Chpt 10 *mused = thought
- No murder weapon on Boomer either, she mused.†
Chpt 11mused = thought -- possibly aloud
- Any of the above, Eve mused and rubbed her hands over her face.†
Chpt 11
- "No outside record," Eve mused.†
Chpt 13
- "So you get a few plants," Eve mused.†
Chpt 14
- The argument grew heated, dramatic, Eve mused, with lots of arm gestures, tossing heads.†
Chpt 17
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.