Presently, "Isn't it frightfully strange," he mused aloud.

When I have mused awhile On all my luck, so vile, I almost wish they'd hit me with a club!

She sat with downcast eyes a moment, musing deeply.

" Mr. Clarkson, staring at the fire, mused darkly.

"It was about ninth down the list yesterday afternoon," he mused, softly.

"I might have said something," she mused, sadly.

VII Long after Miss Stapylton had left him, the colonel sat alone in his study, idle now, and musing vaguely.

For, a time, I mused, absently.

For some time he sat musing bitterly on his sad fate, while his dog came and laid his head sympathizingly on his arm.

" Gavin went off and Cartwright mused by the fire.

" "We-e-ll," mused young Sam, doubtfully, "you're a nigger.

" "That 's strange," mused Mr. Clayton, somewhat anxiously.

And some melancholy Bard Might, idly musing, thus discourse to it: "Daughter of Summer, who dost linger here.

She had recovered from the shock given by the sudden announcement of his origin, and was now musing intently, and with cooler discrimination, on the commencement of their acquaintance, its progress and all its little incidents, down to the two grave events which had so gradually and firmly cemented the sentiments of esteem and admiration in the stronger and indelible tie of affection.

She sat and mused very sweetly about all that had been told her, and wondered whether she too might go sometimes, and with a kiss and a whisper clear up something that was dark in the mind of some one who loved her.

He was absorbed in one of those dreamy reveries in which men saunter, speak, and muse unconsciously, when, in following the windings of a footpath which led through a thicket, he suddenly found himself in the presence of a young lady, who was walking slowly across the wood with a book in her hand.

he mused, corroboratively; and Jack realized that at the same time Mary had been making the same comparison.

"There isn't much exploring left to be done," Dally mused, looking intently at the small boy at the other end of the room.

And sheep for breezes seek the lofty land, A youth whom Æsop taught that every tree, Each bird and insect, spoke as well as he, Walk'd calmly musing in a shaded way, Where flowering hawthorn broke the sunny ray, And thus instructs his moral pen to draw A scene that obvious in the field he saw.

Shakspeare's own muse her Pericles first bore; The Prince of Tyre was elder than the Moor: 'Tis miracle to see a first good play; All hawthorns do not bloom on Christmas-day.

At length, worn out by long-continued watching and fasting, she went to the closet, provided herself with a cracker, and retired to bed to muse deliberately on the strange character of her aunt.

And she fell to musing discontentedly upon the vast advantage of frontier life over her own humdrum, modern existence.

"Well," she audibly mused, "he'll get a recall.

As he lolled back inertly upon the cushions he mused dreamily that he had done well.

He is musing earnestly; And the flutterings of the bird And its pleading, feeble chirp Fall upon his ear unheard.