And then, with a great and well-disciplined effort, I pulled my thoughts together, and said to myself, "Enough of these musings of the peace-time soldier!"

Old Goll Sat musing on a grassy knoll, They deemed he shared their dread ...

On the way, two little accidents happened to him which colored his musings in a very different manner.

She more than ever pointed out his excellences to her sons, contrasting his sterling qualities with Harry's love of pleasure and George's listless musing over his books.

Horatio could not keep himself from falling into a deep musing at the recital of this adventure: he thought Patkul worthy of compassion, yet found reasons to justify the king's resentment; and as this officer had often disburthened himself to him with the greatest freedom, he had no reserve toward him, and this led them into a discourse on arbitrary power.

I could spend the evening of the year musing amid the Poke-stems.

we'll say, Lur'd to ethereal musings by thy thrall, Tho' dream in part, no dream art thou in all!

ORCHESTRA MUSINGS ON IRISH RAILWAY STATIONS.

We have spent much toil and privation to reach here, and now, after two weeks' rambling and musing among the mighty relics of past glory, we turn our faces homeward.

Often in his diary Longfellow speaks of "walking to see Lowell," who was either "musing before his fire in his study," or occupied in his "celestial study, with its pleasant prospect through the small square windows.

Thinking to the right and musing to the left, as the proverb says, the Governor suddenly conceived a plan.

A messenger boy broke in on his musings with a letter for Senator Langdon marked "Important.

[Footnote B: Compare the reference to Helvellyn, and its "deep coves, shaped by skeleton arms," in the 'Musings near Aquapendente' (1837).

As she walked along, she fell a-musing after this fashion: "The milk in this pail will provide me with cream, which I will make into butter and take to market to sell.