Citations:muse

English citations of muse

1. (to ponder)
   • 1847 — Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XXII

     'No,' she repeated, and continued sauntering on, pausing at intervals to muse over a bit of moss, or a tuft of blanched grass, or a fungus spreading its bright orange among the heaps of brown foliage;

2. (To say (something) with due consideration or thought)
   • 1913 — Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, chapter III

     Mrs. Fairford smiled. "I've sometimes thought," she mused, "that Mr. Popple must be the only gentleman I know; at least he's the only man who has ever told me he was a gentleman--and Mr. Popple never fails to mention it."