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  • Let me muse on it on a while and I'll get back to you.
    muse = reflect (think) deeply
  • This would not do, I mused, as the class proceeded with its sums.   (source)
    mused = thought
  • “Perhaps,” Mr. Crepsley mused, tugging at his chin and stroking his scar.   (source)
    mused = thought (reflected deeply on a subject)
  • Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.   (source)
    musings = thoughts
  • "Hmmm…" he mused.   (source)
    mused = thought deeply on a subject
  • I scribble Nathaniel's musings in my spiral notebook, trying to keep up with a running soliloquy that is somewhat reminiscent of Joseph Mitchell's Professor Sea Gull character.   (source)
    musings = thoughts
  • He was obviously morning irritable, and none of that, she mused, made him any less attractive.   (source)
    mused = thought (reflected)
  • Well, college is supposed to be broadening, he muses, and there's no doubt he'll get broadened this year with a roommate like Cedric.   (source)
    muses = thinks
  • Nice life if you can get it, she mused,   (source)
    mused = thought
  • Still Theresa mused all night, and the next day too.   (source)
    mused = thought (reflected deeply) on a subject
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  • He said musingly: "You see, I loved Leslie."   (source)
    musingly = while reflecting (thinking deeply or remembering)
  • Everyone has a secret life, she mused.   (source)
    mused = thought
  • ...from behind his slack-faced astonishment he muses as though from beyond time, upon the ultimate outrage.   (source)
    muses = thinks (reflects deeply)
  • We mused over the thought for a while and soon the quiet stretched into long minutes   (source)
    mused = reflected (thought) deeply on a subject
  • musing upon the king my brother's wreck   (source)
    musing = reflecting (thinking)
  • "If only there were just one," he mused.†   (source)
  • Or after dawn, for that matter, Officer Delinko mused.†   (source)
  • That's probably why after they flew somewhat away they returned for one more pass and on that one I gave no signal at all (in fact I may have even turned my back to the plane as it passed)," McCunn mused philosophically.†   (source)
  • "Nice structure," he mused.†   (source)
  • "I'm more worried about water getting into it," I mused.†   (source)
  • "I wonder if it will ever change," Friedrich mused, shifting closer to the older woman.†   (source)
  • "I wonder if we'll get to visit the White House while we're there," Amanda mused.†   (source)
  • I am witnessing the work of a master, mused Lieutenant Collet as he tweaked his audio gear and listened to Fache's voice coming through the headphones.†   (source)
  • I went through a range of ridiculous musings that yielded nothing from Charlie.†   (source)
  • Harry's musings were ended by Professor Dumbledore, who stood up at the staff table.†   (source)
  • "At least it doesn't say die," Kate mused.†   (source)
  • "I don't know how she knows," Mrs. Williams mused softly.†   (source)
  • "Who are you?" he mused.†   (source)
  • "I don't need to worry," the woman mused.†   (source)
  • Dr. Dolder mused.†   (source)
  • Maybe we're all that way, the boy mused.†   (source)
  • But he was able to say musingly, "To be or not to be."†   (source)
  • Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for coming out on this cold November night, this night that will live in history, this night that for the first time on any stage anywhere, you have listened to the smooth saxophonical musings of that prodigy of the reed, Mr. Sleepy LaBone!†   (source)
  • It doesn't make sense that this school thinks you need to be in special ed," his grandmother mused.†   (source)
  • Butter, he said, musing.†   (source)
  • Then Judith emerged from her own musings long enough to explain.†   (source)
  • "Lord Eddard had a brother named Brandon as well," Jaime mused.†   (source)
  • Shmuel mused out loud.†   (source)
  • He hummed quietly and mused to himself, lightly fingering his notebook of verses.†   (source)
  • 'One thing, Commander,' mused Foaly.†   (source)
  • She mused about the ideal wallpaper for the kitchen and the color of tile in the entryway, the fabric of the curtains in the living room, and how to decorate the mantel over the fireplace.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the governor had them there to keep peace, and they mixed up their orders," Grandma mused.†   (source)
  • I thought these remote places would be teeming with monsters, he mused.†   (source)
  • "Your father," she often mused, "he'd give anybody his last dime."†   (source)
  • I mused, "I guess we should have brought some bees over in our pockets too.†   (source)
  • "A long flight for a small vessel, Van Diemen's Land to the Hawaiis," Szpirglas mused.†   (source)
  • They didn't know how hard it was to be diplomatic, to excavate lively prose from incoherent musings.†   (source)
  • "Benares," mused Martin Silenus.†   (source)
  • Musing, lost in the scene, I did not notice that the dogs were slowing and had stopped until my stomach rammed into the handlebar of the sled.†   (source)
  • Later, these musings about fire would come to seem like prophecy.†   (source)
  • As I led Mr. Smit into the back hall, we heard him musing to himself, "I once knew a Smit on Koning Straat…."†   (source)
  • Dad, musing into his glass of corn bread and milk, said nothing.†   (source)
  • She did not notice; she had gone away again, her gaze dim and musing.†   (source)
  • It's true," Dad mused.†   (source)
  • "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me," Jace mused.†   (source)
  • "Why do they have to grow up?" he mused and kissed her on the forehead.†   (source)
  • Commentators mused on the likely implications of the tact that neither Megan's phone nor her hank cards had been used for more than a week.†   (source)
  • In the middle of my musing she turned to look in my direction and caught me staring at her.†   (source)
  • Of course, I didn't share any of these musings with Amy, so I'm sure I came off as the goldbricker I so often am.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps I should at that," the Baron mused.†   (source)
  • They were musings, idle thoughts, full sometimes of the old dreaminess, but not the kind of thing she cared to dwell on.†   (source)
  • …particular shawl worn on a particular occasion, and Nadia encountered each day objects that took her into Saeed's past, a book or a music collection or a sticker on the inside of a drawer, and evoked emotions from her own childhood, and jagged musings on the fate of her parents and her sister, and Saeed, for his part, was inhabiting a chamber that had been his only briefly, years ago, when relatives from afar or abroad used to come to visit, and being billeted here again conjured up…†   (source)
  • But as it happened, I had just been musing about how much my prospects seemed to have improved and how successfully Mameha and I had kept her plan from Hatsumomo—whatever her plan was.†   (source)
  • He strokes his short, brush mustache with his fingers, musing.†   (source)
  • Felix mused.†   (source)
  • "You started that letter on a hike in rural Haiti," I mused aloud, thinking now of those arid highlands, of medieval peasant huts, donkey ambulances.†   (source)
  • He hurried away, leaving Blomkvist to his solitary musings.†   (source)
  • Another method of escape, suicide, replaced them in his musings; and despite the jailer's precautions (no mirror, no belt or tie or shoelaces), he had devised a way to do it.†   (source)
  • No. Maybe I should go on TV,' Mr. McCabe mused.†   (source)
  • Musing upon this, I reached a better understanding of why so many Iranians are meek followers of authority.†   (source)
  • Such musings were meant only to lift their spirits and the women knew that their journey was not over, nor would their struggle for survival become easier.†   (source)
  • "I guess he came alone," Nardo said musingly.†   (source)
  • Cook's eyes are quiet, as if she's lost in an inner musing.†   (source)
  • She mused about this, thinking about something I knew we'd hear more about later.†   (source)
  • "We could sell it," he mused.†   (source)
  • I thought back to the interviewer, musing over how funny it was that I'd been taught plenty of disarming techniques for interviews or negotiations, but when it came to boys, I was left to figure it out alone.†   (source)
  • Caroline came down most weekends as well, Wally in tow, and puttered around the house examining her handiwork and musing about other changes she might make.†   (source)
  • He was recalled from his musings by Mandy's voice.†   (source)
  • He mused on the question.†   (source)
  • Matzoh was the only edible thing they gave us," she mused, rolling her cigarette thoughtfully between her fingers.†   (source)
  • In the control room Ramius mused.†   (source)
  • "Good times," Mark mused as he got more comfortable.†   (source)
  • "Must have been born on one," he mused.†   (source)
  • "It's just musing, that's all," I say, looking at my feet.†   (source)
  • "Vosch could have been lying, I guess," Ben mused.†   (source)
  • "I never believed those names," mused Joe Rodriguez, "until I went there in 1982 and saw that it was true.†   (source)
  • 'When did I first begin to guess?' he mused, searching back in memory.†   (source)
  • "Why he wishes to possess the Geographica, I cannot say," mused Samaranth, "but there are already too many plans afoot in the lands, and were it to fall into his hands, it would not bode well for the Archipelago."†   (source)
  • "Right up to the end?" he mused.†   (source)
  • After a long silent time during which Lestat paced and I sat there musing, plumbing my mind for what I might do or say to Babette or, deeper still, for the answer to a harder question-what did I feel for Babette?†   (source)
  • 'It's a funny thing about this valve,' Orr mused aloud.†   (source)
  • "Beyond disgraceful," I mused in a low tone, knowing that my calm echo would aggravate her even more.†   (source)
  • Vlad mused that he'd like Henry to give his eulogy.†   (source)
  • "Might be a hard case," Wesley mused.†   (source)
  • "Perhaps—" he mused for a long time.†   (source)
  • Sabina proceeded with her melancholy musings: What if she had a man who ordered her about?†   (source)
  • "Experimental psychology," my father mused.†   (source)
  • "My oh my," he mused.†   (source)
  • "After they stung you, they went after your relatives," Cesar mused.†   (source)
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  • She is my muse. She inspired all the songs on that album.
  • Instead of leaving me alone to "find my muse" (a real quote, I swear), he lands on the stool next to me and starts criticizing.   (source)
    muse = source of inspiration
  • Lewis Carroll's Muse Alice Liddell to marry Prince Leopold   (source)
  • I can name the nine Muses and the seven loves of Zeus.   (source)
    muses = mythological goddesses thought to inspire artists
  • My muse had fled.   (source)
    muse = source of inspiration
  • Maybe, Abdullah thought, Father had sold the Wahdatis his muse as well.   (source)
  • Each is as true today as it will always be, and for Nathaniel the music is both medicine and muse, no less an inspiration now than it was before his fall.   (source)
  • On the third floor I followed signs to collections, hoping that if I read several theater reviews in the local newspaper, it would spark my muse.   (source)
  • I guess you could say, I had a muse.   (source)
    muse = the source of an artist's inspiration -- especially a person
  • But on that fateful day, the thought of taking scalpel to Sister Mary Joseph Praise—his surgical assistant, his closest confidante, his typist, his muse, and the woman he realized he loved—terrified him.   (source)
    muse = source of inspiration
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  • One that has the human spirit as its subject and the future as its muse!†   (source)
  • "What's the matter with these white folks?" she'd muse after reading some craziness in the New York Daily News.†   (source)
  • She muse.†   (source)
  • I needed no muse for my inspiration.†   (source)
  • Sitting in these empty rooms, Y.T. would study the old furniture scrapes on the floors, the dents in the sheetrock, and muse over them like an archaeologist, wondering about the longdeparted families who had once lived here.†   (source)
  • My muse has spoken!†   (source)
  • You might take walks and muse.†   (source)
  • I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend… John Milton, Paradise Lost   .†   (source)
  • I heard her muse, presumably to Arwyl.†   (source)
  • As Eragon continued to muse upon the subject, another question occurred to him.†   (source)
  • Probing this idle refuse, shaking his head, he finally found a tattered matchbox, lit his pipe and began to muse, pacing the room.†   (source)
  • In the spring, as the azaleas were blooming, he began to muse more often on the nature of God.†   (source)
  • In the days to follow the hacendado would come up to the corral where they'd shaped the manada and he and John Grady would walk among the mares and John Grady would argue their points and the hacendado would muse and walk away a fixed distance and stand looking back and nod and muse again and walk off with his eyes to the ground to a fresh vantage point and then look up to see the mare anew, willing to see a new mare should one present itself.†   (source)
  • It is one thing to muse about experts' abusing their position and another to prove it.†   (source)
  • Whatever it is called—muse, insight, inspiration, "the dark finger that guides," "bright angel"—it exists and, in many forms, I have trusted it ever since.†   (source)
  • Every High Priestess has a poet who recites ancient verse to evoke the presence of the Muse as she enters into her rituals.†   (source)
  • "Obey the muse," Liz said.†   (source)
  • I muse, I mope, I ruminate," he wrote in the seclusion of his diary.†   (source)
  • Sucking on a piece of breakfast sausage caught in his back teeth, he began to muse.†   (source)
  • And will your muse keep you working all night?†   (source)
  • Once when the Muse was on her, she sat staring into space so long I got worried.†   (source)
  • We washed the dishes by candlelight, and though I wanted to muse about Angela's errand, to ask questions about the two of them and their trip to the movies, I felt somehow that it was best just to leave it alone.†   (source)
  • But I had a feeling that I was yet to make many more enemies as long as I was the Prince's muse.†   (source)
  • No, they were folksy, quick to muse, to drift off while talking about a certain flight, the weather a certain day when the shuttle shot through a hole in the clouds.†   (source)
  • Euterpe, Sophie had thought, music's sweet Muse, passing quickly on ….†   (source)
  • But even though the kids quit responding and reverted back to their classical pose of scholars erect in their desks and lusting for knowledge, Top Cat gyrated on, a grin like a jack-o'-lantern carved on his face and eyes raised in adoration of some muse deep within him.†   (source)
  • He seemed to muse on it.†   (source)
  • The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.   (source)
  • I always thought of you as someone who might muse on death.†   (source)
  • The muse had arrived, every bit as welcome as an unexpected check in the mail.†   (source)
  • It's my muse," I said, and turned, and went back to my room to write.†   (source)
  • I found no muse on Hyperion during those first years.†   (source)
  • I moved from room to room in King Billy's abandoned palace, working on my poem, waiting for my muse.†   (source)
  • SHIT, it printed out, WHAT DID i DO WITH MY MUSE?†   (source)
  • You can't c-c-c-compose this poetry unless your m-m-muse is shedding blood, can you?†   (source)
  • Nathaniel plays Bach and Beethoven as if he's a young student again, the music filled with a sense of urgency and possibility. Every few minutes he turns toward the dresser, checking in with his mother and his muse.†   (source)
  • For while in the classical tradition there was no Muse of architecture, I think we can agree that under the right circumstances, the appearance of a building can impress itself upon one's memory, affect one's sentiments, and even change one's life.†   (source)
  • This thing that is going to kill us tomorrow-my muse, our maker, our unmaker-it's traveled back through time.†   (source)
  • No. Has your m-m-muse returned?†   (source)
  • Then, on a cool morning with my sleeping room rocking slightly in the upper branches of my tree on the Templar world, I awoke to a gray sky and the realization that my muse had fled.†   (source)
  • I farcast and flew to my favorite places, watching the suns set on the windblown prairies of Grass and the night fogs obscure the ebony crags of Nevermore, but although I emptied my mind of tbe trash-prose of the endless Dying Earth, there came no whispers from my muse.†   (source)
  • Does the muse grant requests?†   (source)
  • Me with my muse.†   (source)
  • My muse had fled.†   (source)
  • My muse had fled.†   (source)
  • When you think about it, the cause-effect begins to resemble some mad logic-loop by the data artist Carolus or perhaps a print by Escher: the Shrike had come into existence because of the incantatory powers of my poem but the poem could not have existed without the threat/presence of the Shrike as muse.†   (source)
  • No muse appeared.†   (source)
  • The Shrike was my muse.†   (source)
  • Her last design was still up—the key to Annabeth's plan, inspired by the most unlikely muse ever: Frank Zhang.†   (source)
  • He seemed to muse over it.†   (source)
  • " It was a month or so after, when Misty and I had had plenty of time to muse over my situation, plenty of time to create numerous plots, all of them possible, that I took Misty's advice and told my mother that I needed my birth certificate for a report I was doing at school.†   (source)
  • I lifted myself up from the slab of stone that had served as my resting place, for how long, I could only muse.†   (source)
  • "Sam," the other guard said, "I don't think making friends with the prince's muse is good for your health."†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, now to help summon my own muse, I tried to read Marlowe, but for some reason that lilting music failed to stir me as it usually did.†   (source)
  • The next day Farrell, ever amiable and tolerant, would muse wryly on such offerings, chewing at his Yello-Bole, and after observing that "this isn't quite what I think we had in mind," would grin understandingly and ask me to please try again.†   (source)
  • His voice would falter and die away, and he would fall silent and muse.†   (source)
  • By the river the reed-pipes, the muse's temple, the sacred wood again.†   (source)
  • He seems to muse now upon a sort of timeless and beautiful infallibility in his unpredictable frustrations.†   (source)
  • She in turn seemed to muse now, quiet, scarcebreathing, yet still with nothing of selfpity or retrospect: "I had thought of that.†   (source)
  • He seems to muse upon one hand which lies upon his lap, the thumb and forefinger of which rub slowly together with a kneading motion while he appears to watch with musing absorption.†   (source)
  • So she seems to muse upon the mounting road while the slowspitting and squatting men watch her covertly, believing that she is thinking about the man and the approaching crisis, when in reality she is waging a mild battle with that providential caution of the old earth of and with and by which she lives.†   (source)
  • At first sight there seemed in these small documents to be absolutely nothing to muse over.†   (source)
  • I, even I, have won a great victory for the Comic Muse.†   (source)
  • And with this Alan fell into a muse, and for a long time sate very sad and silent.†   (source)
  • RAGUENEAU (before the fire): My muse, retire, lest thy bright eyes be reddened by the fagot's blaze!†   (source)
  • By and by he says: "But the histrionic muse is the darling."†   (source)
  • His soul had loved to muse in secret on this desire.†   (source)
  • In school I can look at her and muse over days departed.†   (source)
  • In the interests of the Comic Muse and of Truth, he would bring them to Windy Corner.†   (source)
  • In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.†   (source)
  • Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian: We are but mortals, and must sing of man.†   (source)
  • The scout hesitated, and appeared to muse.†   (source)
  • It was not for me to muse over bygones, but to act with a cheerful spirit and a grateful heart.†   (source)
  • My Muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth.†   (source)
  • But she would often clasp her hands behind her head and muse when she was supposed to be working hard.†   (source)
  • Her enthusiasm had become watery even before thirteen women resolutely removed their overshoes, sat down meatily, ate peppermints, dusted their fingers, folded their hands, composed their lower thoughts, and invited the naked muse of poetry to deliver her most improving message.†   (source)
  • 'Primus ego in patriam mecum…. deducam Musas'; 'for I shall be the first, if I live, to bring the Muse into my country.'†   (source)
  • But meanwhile she had the morning to herself, and could muse pleasantly on the disposal of its hours.†   (source)
  • Marija was one of those hungry souls who cling with desperation to the skirts of the retreating muse.†   (source)
  • Strangely enough, the decision of the question as to whether this were a ghost or Rogojin did not, for some reason or other, interest me nearly so much as it ought to have done;—I think I began to muse about something altogether different.†   (source)
  • All day long, during these walks, I had been able to muse upon the pleasure that there would be in the friendship of the Duchesse de Guermantes, in fishing for trout, in drifting by myself in a boat on the Vivonne; and, greedy for happiness, I asked nothing more from life, in such moments, than that it should consist always of a series of joyous afternoons.†   (source)
  • And after five days, in which he did not more than muse idly upon the matter, he decided to deny the motion.†   (source)
  • As we went, I kept looking across the water and sighing to myself; and though I took no heed of it, Alan had fallen into a muse.†   (source)
  • At times his mind seems far away, the Muse says naught—and then, presto! he speaks—bewitchingly! enchantingly!†   (source)
  • Miss Bart, on her way to the station, had leisure to muse over her friend's words, and their peculiar application to herself.†   (source)
  • This was not a boast, but a hope, at once bold and devoutly humble, that he might bring the Muse (but lately come to Italy from her cloudy Grecian mountains), not to the capital, the palatia Romana, but to his own little I country'; to his father's fields, 'sloping down to the river and to the old beech trees with broken tops.'†   (source)
  • "You'd better muse over your lessons and sums," said Marilla, concealing her delight at this development of the situation.†   (source)
  • After he had faced the bitter fact that he was to leave the 'Aeneid' unfinished, and had decreed that the great canvas, crowded with figures of gods and men, should be burned rather than survive him unperfected, then his mind must have gone back to the perfect utterance of the 'Georgics,' where the pen was fitted to the matter as the plough is to the furrow; and he must have said to himself, with the thankfulness of a good man, 'I was the first to bring the Muse into my country.'†   (source)
  • When I had answered all of them, seemingly to his contentment, he fell into a still deeper muse, even the claret being now forgotten.†   (source)
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