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Musingly

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1.
In a reflective manner.






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"Musingly" Quotes from Famous Books



... slowly, almost musingly: "The purpose I had, perhaps, but not the one I have. I did not know myself. I did not know. I doubt if any girl does. I don't want to marry ...
— The Touchstone of Fortune • Charles Major

... of Polyphemus and Seer Marcous and Antoinette," she said, musingly. "And then I wished I was back. ...
— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke

... no better than his deeds," replied Armitage musingly. "Look here, Yeasky," he added presently. "I tell you what I am going to do. I am going to turn you over to Chief Roberts of the Newport police and he will hold you for two or three days under an assumed name on the charge of ...
— Prince or Chauffeur? - A Story of Newport • Lawrence Perry

... pleasure of that was not yet worn off. He was a man who thought himself happy, and certainly possessed a very high place in the esteem of those who knew him; being educated, travelled, clever, and of noble character, and withal rich. It was the oddest thing for Philip to walk as he walked now, musingly, with measured steps, and eyes bent on the ground. There was a most strange sense of ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner

... a rare art connoisseur," musingly said Wade, "and I've picked up a few pretty bits of etching now and then at his shop. You must come up and ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage

... musingly, eyeing the glowing tip of his cigar. "And to think how that mysterious 'M. J.' used to tantalize me! Do you mean," he added, turning slowly, "that no one ...
— Miss Billy Married • Eleanor H. Porter

... Light is painful to his race; and I have even heard that a stroke of sunshine is able to turn them into stones. I am almost afraid of this little tree," added the good mother musingly. "You know what we read in the holy Eddas: Both the alder and the ash trees should be held sacred; for Odin formed man from the ash, and woman from the alder. Nevertheless, the night-elf could not have meant ...
— Fairy Book • Sophie May

... "Yes," continued Professor Pludder musingly, "there it lies, three thousand feet deep. There is the Arkansas, along whose banks we used to play, with its golden waters now mingling feebly with the mighty flood that covers them. There is the schoolhouse and the sandy road where we ran races barefoot in the hot ...
— The Second Deluge • Garrett P. Serviss

... not used to flatter Reuben with any such mention as this. "What can she mean," said he, musingly, "by talking such stuff ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various

... said the other musingly; "no, of course you wouldn't have, and, unfortunately, I cannot tell you why you should. But I'll tell you this: if you ever do find cause to suspect any of these persons, you will find that this group is not complete. It ...
— The Mummy and Miss Nitocris - A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension • George Griffith

... his head slowly and approvingly as he repeated with infinite deliberateness: "Danced on champagne bottles, champagne! you said, pard? at a pahty! Yes!" (musingly and approvingly). "I reckon that's about the gait they take. ...
— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte

... and I permit boys and fools to speak of me as they list. But I am no tyrant, Karl! He might have spared me that. (Musingly.) Tyrant!— ...
— Poems • George P. Morris

... Miss Terry musingly. "A very nice child indeed. I believe she looks very much as I used ...
— The Christmas Angel • Abbie Farwell Brown

... seems obvious enough," Mr. Warne suggested, as the girl stooped and began to wrestle with the cords which tied the big package. His glance fell musingly on the down-bent head with its masses of dark-brown hair, upon the white and shapely arms from which the sleeves were rolled back,—Georgiana had been busy in the kitchen when the expressman came,—upon the whole comely young figure in its blue-print morning dress. ...
— Under the Country Sky • Grace S. Richmond

... fair young girl, with beautiful gray eyes, sat musingly beside one of these southern trails gazing upon the inverted pyramid of red sky which glowed between the sloping shoulders of the westward warding peaks. Her exquisite lips, scarlet as strawberry stains, were drawn into an expression ...
— The Tyranny of the Dark • Hamlin Garland

... there"—Wayland looked through the window, musingly. "There was an Iceland schooner wrecked off the Isle des Chouans. And no life-saving crew short of Ylva Light. So my father went out in his little American catboat, all alone.... Marie-Josephine saw his sail off Eryx Rocks ... for a few moments ... ...
— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers

... "Hum!" said Tom, musingly. "Yes, that would be a simple way out, and I'll do it, if you'll tell me how to breathe ...
— Tom Swift and his Air Scout - or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky • Victor Appleton

... much of late—that France across the sea?" The Chevalier's tones expressed genuine interest. He could now account for the presence of the mutilated hand. Here was a man who had seen strange adventures in a strange land. "New France!" musingly. ...
— The Grey Cloak • Harold MacGrath

... think not," said the stranger, musingly. "There might be danger," he muttered to himself, ...
— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood

... he said slowly, musingly, "a singular fatality at work between that man and me, bringing us ever each by turns athwart ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... now, he had done what he could. The thought brightened him, and he patted his short ribs musingly. There was a friendly protuberance there on either side. His belt sagged comfortingly. He opened the pack which he was tying with his blanket behind his saddle, and from it he filled with cartridges the pockets of his rough ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle

... way" said Bob musingly. "The only rift in the surveyor-general's lute is the fact that while he has never yet bumped up against the right man, he is due to so bump in the very near future. However, Mr. Dunstan, I do not think our present surveyor-general ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... know as I want you to get anything,—child you've got enough now for me. Not that he wouldn't like it, either," said Mrs. Derrick musingly—"because if he wouldn't, I wouldn't give much for him. But I guess it's just as well not." And Mrs Derrick stroked her hand fondly over Faith's head, and told her that if she stood out there without a bonnet she ...
— Say and Seal, Volume I • Susan Warner

... think," he said musingly, "that no two lives have ever been so widely separated as yours and mine, and yet our paths ...
— The Slave Of The Lamp • Henry Seton Merriman

... Hitchcock," Sommers replied shortly. He told her something about the Hitchcocks. "She was the first woman I knew in Chicago," he concluded musingly. Alves looked at him with troubled eyes, and then was silent. Territories unknown in her experience were beginning to reveal themselves in the world ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick

... to be a soldier," Mr. Fentolin continued musingly. "Well, well, why not? Our picture galleries are full of them. There has been a Fentolin in every great battle for the last five hundred years. Sailors, too—plenty of them—and just a few diplomatists. Brave fellows! Not one, I fancy," he added, "like me—not ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... as well as myself,' he murmured musingly. 'I had almost forgotten that. Comrade Waller's misfortunes cannot but be trivial compared with mine, but possibly it will be as well to ascertain their nature. I will reel round and ...
— Psmith in the City • P. G. Wodehouse

... its former completeness, that sense of mutual interest which had once absorbed them. Whatever dreams of the past might, for the moment, blind their perceptions, there was still the ever-present consciousness of now standing in another and far different relation to each other. Though AEnone musingly gazed upon his face and listened to his voice, until the realities of the present seemed to shrink away, and the fancies of other years stole softly back, and, with involuntary action, her hand gently toyed with his ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... open doorway, beyond the slapping tent-flap, the keen, gray eyes of the Colonel were fixed musingly on two black points which crawled along the edge of the dulled silver of the distant river—Miles Morgan ...
— The Militants - Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World • Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

... and must have been trodden for ages, by nobles and robbers, peasants and sailors, priests of more than one religion, and traders of many seas, who have gone, and left no record. The sun was slanting his last rays into the corridors as I musingly looked down from one of the arched openings, quite spellbound by the strangeness and dead silence of the place, broken only by the plash of waves on the sandy beach below. I had found my way down through a wooden door half ajar; and I thought of the possibility of some one's shutting ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... married," said Hardy, musingly; "for my part I can't understand a man remaining single all his life; ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs

... Widow Maloney's house, you know, an' he ain't got nobody but me, an' I ain't got nobody but him, an' we live together. That's why they call him Bachelor Billy, 'cause he ain't never got married. Oh! he's been awful good to me, Uncle Billy has, awful good!" And the boy looked out again musingly ...
— Burnham Breaker • Homer Greene

... such a thing, watched him with intense interest, ejaculating under his breath every now and then, "By George! By George!" When the performance was over, Governor Hoyt, seeing Mr. Lincoln's interest, asked him to go up and be introduced to the athlete. He did so; and, as he stood looking down musingly on the fellow, who was very short, and evidently wondering that a man so much shorter than he could be so much stronger, he suddenly broke out with one of his quaint speeches. "Why," he said, "why, I could lick salt off ...
— McClure's Magazine December, 1895 • Edited by Ida M. Tarbell

... stranger, musingly, as if to himself—"a beautiful creature! Pardon me," added he, again addressing Algernon; "but ...
— Ella Barnwell - A Historical Romance of Border Life • Emerson Bennett

... much the old expedient," said the professor musingly, "as it is that I would be afraid to leave you herewith no protection against that drinking ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane

... shows herself to you unless in a dark veil, black as the night," said the duchess, musingly. "But tell me, brother, who then is the fair Geraldine? Of the ladies at court, I know not a single ...
— Henry VIII And His Court • Louise Muhlbach

... Eby walked home with a paper representing the ownership of a number of shares of a certain gold mine in Nevada, while Caleb Warner patted musingly a check ...
— Patchwork - A Story of 'The Plain People' • Anna Balmer Myers

... said Mrs. Schofield musingly. "Of course you and I and everybody who really knows the Bitts and Magsworth families understand the perfect absurdity of it; but I suppose there are ever so many who'll believe it, no matter what ...
— Penrod • Booth Tarkington

... stood and looked musingly out upon the sea, as though the sight of the rolling waters assisted his meditations. It was some time ...
— Lost in the Fog • James De Mille

... said the Cornishman musingly. "Well, seeing it's here, we'll say twenty pound. There's five of us, and that makes a hundred. All right, my sons; we shall come upon those chaps one of these days, and they'll have to pay us about a pound and a harf o' gold for our work; ...
— To Win or to Die - A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze • George Manville Fenn

... said, musingly, "he wouldn't be the man to call on for a line smash in the last quarter of ...
— Youth Challenges • Clarence B Kelland

... the heart of this mystery," he said, musingly, as Muro came up. The latter informed him that they had captured two Illyas who were making their way to the village from the south, and within ten minutes ...
— The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages • Roger Thompson Finlay

... he exclaimed, and if he had said Jack-the-ripper's, he could not have expressed more horror. "Now isn't it queer," he went on, musingly, "that David, brought up as he has been, can see anything to attract him ...
— The Beauty and the Bolshevist • Alice Duer Miller

... best way out of an impossible situation," continued Belknap-Jackson musingly. "Otherwise we face a social upheaval that might leave us demoralized for years—say nothing of making us a laughingstock with the rabble. In fact, I see nothing ...
— Ruggles of Red Gap • Harry Leon Wilson

... Adam refuse the apple that Eve offered him?" she inquired musingly. "Or rather why did he eat it after many refusals and learn the secret of good and evil, to the great gain of the world which thenceforward became acquainted with ...
— The Ancient Allan • H. Rider Haggard

... I do to make myself happy?" said Dotty, musingly; for she wished to put off all thought of Prudy's money. "I should like to roll out some thimble-cookies, but Ruthie hasn't much patience this morning. I never dare do things when her lips are squeezed ...
— Dotty Dimple's Flyaway • Sophie May

... "But surely," we said, musingly, "we have seen something about this lately in the papers?" "Seen it, sir," he exclaimed, "I should say so. It's everywhere. It's a new movement. It's in the air. Has it never struck you how a thing like this can be seen ...
— Moonbeams From the Larger Lunacy • Stephen Leacock

... unlike," said the Squire, "it has been a gross insult to young Leslie; and looks all the worse because I and Audley are not just the best friends in the world. I can't think what it is," continued Mr. Hazeldean, musingly, "but it seems that there must be always some association of fighting connected with that prim half-brother of mine. There was I, son of his own mother—who might have been shot through the lungs, only the ball lodged in the shoulder—and now his wife's kinsman—my ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various

... and also ready of wit, Master Sholto," said the Earl, looking at the armourer's son musingly. "Clear of eye and true of hand, so they tell me. Did you not win the ...
— The Black Douglas • S. R. Crockett

... By the way, that Wegg history seems both romantic and unusual," she said, musingly. "Don't you scent some mystery in what the man ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville • Edith Van Dyne

... Sir Hugh musingly passed his hand over his brow, and then replied: "Fain would I find the guide you need, but, though a bishop built this castle, few holy brethren resort here. If the priest of Shoreswood were here, he could rein your ...
— The Prose Marmion - A Tale of the Scottish Border • Sara D. Jenkins

... the old woman musingly; 'I mind o' several verses on it: "In the world ye shall have tribbylation; but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world." "We must through much tribbylation enter into the Kingdom of God." "We glory in ...
— Odd • Amy Le Feuvre

... down on the bed where O'Hara had died, cocked the cigar up in his mouth, and blew smoke, musingly, ...
— A Young Man in a Hurry - and Other Short Stories • Robert W. Chambers

... who often responded in English to the priest's Italian; and he added half musingly in his own tongue, after a moment, "but I don't think it would be safe to count upon her. I'm afraid she has a bad temper. At any rate, I always expect to see smoke somewhere when I look at those eyes of hers. She has ...
— A Foregone Conclusion • W. D. Howells

... rat eyes rested musingly upon the river; he sucked thoughtfully at his cigar, hooked one soiled thumb into the armhole of his fancy vest and ...
— Police!!! • Robert W. Chambers

... facing the truth as we are," Nan made answer musingly. "I wonder why we always try to shut our eyes against the fact of death? . . . It's there waiting for us round ...
— The Moon out of Reach • Margaret Pedler

... said Lance, musingly, "that in all this world there is nothing so horrible as a bad—a really bad or wicked woman! They seem to me much worse than men, just as a good woman is better than a man could ever be—is ...
— The Tragedy of the Chain Pier - Everyday Life Library No. 3 • Charlotte M. Braeme

... last man in Paradise, always excepting Major Dabney," he said half-musingly. "Haven't you often wondered what sort of a maggot it is that gets into the human brain to give ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

... been their capital and the breadwinner of the house. Sometimes he thought that she missed Jim. If she was to leave them now, he wouldn't know what to do, for he couldn't raise the money to buy another horse nohow, as things were. Poor old 'Liza! He stroked her gray coat musingly with the point of his whip as he thought of their old friendship. The horse pointed one ear back toward her master and neighed gently, as if to assure him ...
— Children of the Tenements • Jacob A. Riis

... eyes travelled around the club's homelike, perfectly appointed room. He nodded to a fellow member here and there, then his eyes rested musingly on his guest again. ...
— The Adventures of Jimmie Dale • Frank L. Packard

... air, Allison sat a moment watching the water stream down the pane. "This makes me think of that afternoon in old Lloydsboro Seminary," she said, musingly, "when Ida Shane read the 'Fortunes of Daisy Dale' aloud to us. I wonder what has become of Ida. She was living in a little country town up in the mountains the last time I heard of her, taking in sewing ...
— The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation • Annie Fellows Johnston

... fall here," said Kendric musingly, "the steep slide and no doubt another drop at the end. We wouldn't be able to see them at first. But someway, I don't ...
— Daughter of the Sun - A Tale of Adventure • Jackson Gregory

... wouldn't join the gun-toters when I came out here," he said, half musingly, "but I've weakened on that. Yesterday, when I was calling Jeff Cummings down for dropping that new shifting-engine out of an open switch in broad daylight, he pulled on me out of his cab window. What I had to take while ...
— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde

... She appeared to pause musingly, and then turned to Georgiana, showing happy features; "Yes: I shall see him. I must see him. Let him know he ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... Uncle Jerry, musingly. "If it is to come out, I'd rather The Planet would have it than any, other paper. It's got some sense. No; print it. It'll be a big beat for your paper. While you are about it—I s'pose you'll print it anyway?" (the reporter nodded)—"you might as well ...
— Baddeck and That Sort of Thing • Charles Dudley Warner

... from grandfathers!" He had a powerful voice, and always just on the stroke of eight he rose and vigorously delivered this sentence. Once, after lecturing an entire season—two hundred and twenty-five nights—he went home to rest. That evening he sat, musingly drowsing by the fire, when the clock struck eight. Without a moment's thought Nasby sprang to his feet and thundered out, "We are ...
— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... and, for a while, considered her musingly as he sat smoking. After a while he said: "You are rather dirty—all over blood. But you ought to be pretty after you're washed." Then ...
— In Secret • Robert W. Chambers

... Mrs Peagrim musingly, with a cooing note in her voice. Long since had that polished man of affairs made a deep impression upon her. "Of course Major Selby, for one. And Mr Rooke. Then there are one or two of my friends who would ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse

... I saw Emerson," he said musingly; "it was at West Point during the June examinations of the cadets. Emerson had been appointed by President Lincoln as one of the board of visitors. I had been around there in the afternoon, and had been peculiarly interested in a ...
— Our Friend John Burroughs • Clara Barrus

... conversation to brighter topics, but he was not; there had already been long pauses, and in dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling on any faggot rather than let the fire go out. "It is odd that I should be talking of it now," he said musingly. ...
— Tommy and Grizel • J.M. Barrie

... out again," Starr announced musingly to Rabbit. "Maybe young Calvert hired a load of grub brought out; that, or he's had a visitor in the last day or two—maybe a week back, though; this dry ground holds tracks a long while. Go on, it's only a ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower

... me," said he, musingly. "The General knows what he's about, every time. He has the advantage of the rest of them, ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland

... of the main room, where I so well recalled my father sitting musingly by the great fireplace evening after evening smoking his pipe. Now the apartment was dreary and bare. Snow had filtered in at the windows, and the floor was rotting away. There were ashes in the fireplace, and near by lay a heap of dry wood—signs that some voyageur or trapper had spent ...
— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon

... on Bert musingly, "school's no fun, and it starts about a week after we get home. No chance to ...
— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope

... that has shared my meal for many a long day," he said. "Day after day, and year after year, I have broken my fast alone, but it seems pleasant, after all," he said, musingly. "Men are treacherous and deceitful, but you," he said, resting his glance on the frank, ingenuous face of his youthful guest, "you must be honest and true, or I ...
— Try and Trust • Horatio Alger

... "Saul," said my father, musingly, "Saul, I am afraid she was only too right there; he disobeyed the commands of his master, and brought down on his head the vengeance of Heaven—he became a maniac, prophesied, and flung weapons ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

... fervently responded Sally, wiping the sweat from his forehead and looking the thankfulness he had no words for. Then, musingly, he apologized to himself. "I certainly held threes —I KNOW it—but I drew and didn't fill. That's where I'm so often weak in the game. If I had stood pat—but I didn't. I never do. I don't ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... manage when they get served in the same way," said the stranger musingly; "you never meet them roaming up ...
— A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others • Various

... Mrs. Wilkins looked musingly at the steam of the tea-kettle, as if through its silvery haze she saw her early home again. Wash promptly roused her from this reverie by tumbling off the boiler with a crash. His mother picked him up and placidly went on, ...
— Work: A Story of Experience • Louisa May Alcott

... be partridges in the time of Jeremiah,' said Mr. Ormsby; 'at least they told us so at the Chapel Royal last Sunday, where, by-the-bye, I saw Lord Montacute for the first time; and a deuced good-looking fellow he is,' he added, musingly. ...
— Tancred - Or, The New Crusade • Benjamin Disraeli

... did not give him her hand. With a repetition of the farewell he left her, and she walked musingly into the room again. She felt a flush of anger at his daring to say their friendship was impossible, when she had not even suggested that it could ever be resumed. His vanity knew no bounds. She was furious at having let him hold her as he did—even more furious with ...
— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter

... the boy. Mehetabel's family want him named Elkanah Elkins, after her grandfather; I want him named Andrew Jackson. We compromise by christening him Elkanah Elkins Andrew Jackson Jaffrey. Rather a long name for such a short little fellow," said Mr. Jaffrey, musingly. ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner

... has a tongue in his head when it suits him," answered Charles: "yet I do think," he added, musingly, "he's very much changed, and ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman

... sometimes I tell her stories,—stories of sailors supposed to be lost, and recovered after all hope was abandoned." Here the captain musingly ...
— A Message from the Sea • Charles Dickens

... musingly, and speaking to himself. "Ten thousand! That will do pretty well. But, if he will bleed for fifteen thousand, why may I not set the spring of my lancet a little deeper. I can make good ...
— True Riches - Or, Wealth Without Wings • T.S. Arthur

... dictator, that is admitted. But all this great eclat, all this triumphant power, does not prevent little incidents from happening in Paris, like the following, which honest badauds, witnesses of the fact, will tell you, musingly. Two men were walking in the street, talking of their business or their private affairs. One of them, referring to some knave or other, of whom he thought he had reason to complain, exclaimed: "He is a wretch, a swindler, a rascal!" A police agent ...
— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo

... glanced musingly across the knolls at Elsie's slender figure, as she sauntered peacefully home with her charge, and then she said, "No, my dear, we shall not trouble Elsie to-night; but I shall take you with me to see her in her own ...
— Geordie's Tryst - A Tale of Scottish Life • Mrs. Milne Rae

... come," said Smith, enigmatically. "Three of them in one day—well, well!" And he added musingly: "So I have stung you as ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison

... and Allen nursed his hat musingly. He had nothing whatever to do, and the chance meeting with Harwood was a bright incident in a bleak, ...
— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson

... handsome, is he?" Miss Flora's eyes were musingly fixed on the picture before her—which was well, perhaps: Mr. John Smith's face was ...
— Oh, Money! Money! • Eleanor Hodgman Porter

... an amazing old world," said a young girl, still in her "teens," as she musingly leaned ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne

... mystery, he were," he added, darkly, and turned to look musingly across the marshes toward the distant sea. For River Andrew, like many hawkers of cheap wares, knew the ...
— The Last Hope • Henry Seton Merriman

... rode, and Princess Abrizah made Marjanah mount the second she mounting the third, albeit she was in labour pains and possessed not her soul for anguish. And the slave ceased not travelling with them night and day through the passes of the mountains, till there remained but musingly march between them and their own country; when the travail pangs came upon Abrizah and she could no longer resist; so she said to Al-Ghazban, "Set me down, for the pains of labour are upon me;" and cried to ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton

... closed behind Warrington, the young millionaire sat down, scowling at a cubby-hole in his desk. He presently took out a letter postmarked Yokohama. He turned it about in his hands, musingly. Without reading it (for he knew its contents well!) he thrust it back into the cubby-hole. Women were out of his sphere. He could build a bridge within a dollar of the bid; but he knew nothing about women beyond the fact that ...
— Parrot & Co. • Harold MacGrath

... did n't know how she'd feel," muttered the gray-haired little woman musingly, as she patted her work into completion and turned toward the Lady in Black. "You see, I was nurse to the boy when it happened, and for years afterward I worked in the family; so I know. I saw the whole thing from the beginning, from the ...
— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter

... exciting," Rosanne said musingly. "Don't you think so?" she added quickly, and began to ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley

... went on, musingly. "To-morrow we are called dead. The next day men are here who never heard our names. The most famous will be forgotten even while Sydney Harbour seems unchanged. And Sydney Harbour is changing and passing, and the continent is changing and passing, and the world is changing and passing, ...
— The Workingman's Paradise - An Australian Labour Novel • John Miller

... he continued, musingly, "I don' see how no man on all dis worl' could lef' you go." Then to her, "Wal, ...
— The Barrier • Rex Beach

... scintillations from the facets of a hundred jewels. When the coruscations of this Masonic emblem caught the eye of Dr. Lord, he became uneasy, and began to finger an imaginary token of rank upon his own breast. "I ought to have a jewel to wear to-night," he said musingly, and muttered of the splendid jewel that he had forgotten to bring, given to him years before by the Grand Lodge. By this time the hour of service had come; the aproned Masons had marched to their seats in the nave of the church, and all available space was thronged by an expectant congregation. ...
— The Story of Cooperstown • Ralph Birdsall

... way all clear when she reached the mountain-top,' she said musingly; 'but mine looks misty enough. Mr. Falkirk, will this fog clear away ...
— Wych Hazel • Susan and Anna Warner

... said musingly. "I never've had one since. And that was mother's locket. It had"—He paused and looked ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown

... upon the floor with a gesture of disgust and despair. Then he stopped in front of the Boule cabinet and looked down at it musingly; and, after a moment, his ...
— The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet - A Detective Story • Burton Egbert Stevenson

... street-corners came to an end at a comparatively early hour, one Coelebs after another shuffling silently from the square until it echoed, deserted, to the town-house clock. The last of the gallants, gradually discovering that he was alone, would look around him musingly, and, taking in the situation, slowly wend his way home. On no other night of the week was frivolous talk about the softer sex indulged in, the Auld Lichts being creatures of habit who never thought ...
— Auld Licht Idylls • J. M. Barrie

... queer," assented Winnie musingly; "but I like Miss Latimer dearly. She is awfully good, Dick; and fancy her being the author of those books after all. Is it ...
— Aunt Judith - The Story of a Loving Life • Grace Beaumont

... if these slaves would fight for us if we removed the lumps from their necks," he said musingly, his eyes narrow. "I wish there were some way to talk ...
— Astounding Stories, July, 1931 • Various

... I do, what shall I do, Mrs. Burke?" she cried. Mrs. Burke gazed musingly at the writhing black blot on the white ...
— Hepsey Burke • Frank Noyes Westcott

... with a reflector hung on the japanned wall of the fireplace and by its light his aunt was reading the evening paper that lay on her knees. She looked a long time at a smiling picture that was set in it and said musingly: ...
— A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man • James Joyce

... forgotten how one feels at that time of life," he said musingly, "quite forgotten. Poor old Charlie; I oughtn't to have kept you up so late. I'd have felt like that at sixty-three myself. Well, my dear fellow, I'm glad we were able to have this night together before it became ...
— The Prodigal Father • J. Storer Clouston

... seem a long time since our senior year in high school," agreed Grace musingly. "Good gracious, Eleanor, the Glee Club are waiting for the signal to go on while we stand here reminiscing!" Grace hurried to the wing where one of the pages stood patiently holding the Glee Club poster, and signaled to the page on the opposite side. An ...
— Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower

... glad to hear the cause of that death," said Dr. Crowell, musingly. "I'm an old, experienced practitioner, and I've never seen anything so mysterious. There's absolutely no trace of any poison, and yet it can be ...
— Raspberry Jam • Carolyn Wells

... strange," said the Count musingly. "I do not remember to have heard of your system more than a few times in my life, and then but as something ridiculous or foolish. Cannot something be done to bring it ...
— Doctor Jones' Picnic • S. E. Chapman

... musingly, "we might have an Art Institute, or the Phyllis Kinglake School of Expression, or the Meadowvale Woman's Club, or the Colonial Dames, or, best of all, the Daughters ...
— The Romance of an Old Fool • Roswell Field

... the Master, musingly. "I wonder!" And he thoughtfully pulled Finn's ears, as though he thought this might extract information regarding the whereabouts of Desdemona. But Finn, as his way was, said nothing. He maintained in this matter a ...
— Jan - A Dog and a Romance • A. J. Dawson

... me funny," said the driver, musingly. "Those critters blindfoldin' you and those other guys. What' you think ...
— Operation Terror • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... sorry I let you go into dat company," said Hannah musingly; "'cause it was de teachin' I wanted you to git, not de prancin' and steppin'; but I did t'ink it would make mo' of a man of you, an' it ain't. Yo' pappy was a po' man, ha'd wo'kin', an' he wasn't high-toned neither, but from the time I first see him to the ...
— The heart of happy hollow - A collection of stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar

... I cautiously opened my eyes and glanced up into her face. For a time she remained unaware of my awakening, and sat there silently stroking my forehead, her gaze fixed musingly upon the window at the farther end of the hall. Doubtless she had been sitting thus for some time, and had become absorbed in her own reflections, for I lay there drinking in her beauty for several moments ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish

... night was coming down, and a little twinkling lamp hung at the end of the passage. Towards this Miss Elaine musingly turned her steps, still squeezing her now nearly ...
— The Dragon of Wantley - His Tale • Owen Wister

... 'Perhaps,' I said musingly. The afternoon wore away, and there were no signs of our brother coming, so I began to get rather uneasy, and ...
— Our Home in the Silver West - A Story of Struggle and Adventure • Gordon Stables

... sharp. "Be quiet! You are becoming wearisome. Gentlemen," he bowed slightly toward LeFleur and Creighton, "one cannot fight bad luck, and this time Fate smiles upon you. It was a good idea if it had worked," he added musingly. "Young Ralestone seems to have gathered all the aces into his hand. Even," the drawl became a sneer, "even the guardianship of the missing heir, which will mean a nice sum in the bank for the happy guardian, ...
— Ralestone Luck • Andre Norton

... the detective musingly, "by committing a slight trespass on your left-hand neighbor's garden, can I reach the ...
— The Postmaster's Daughter • Louis Tracy

... thing," he said musingly, "that the more eddication a man has the more he believes in rubbish. Here's Dauvit here, a man that reads Shakespeare and Burns and Carlyle, and the dominie there that went through a college, and the both o' you ...
— A Dominie in Doubt • A. S. Neill

... his elbow. "A man with a red skin and hard eyes," he went on, musingly, "whose hand is strong, and whose heart is foolish and weak. A white man indeed . . . ...
— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad

... against the door-pillar of his master's abode, looked forth musingly upon the latter tranquil sight: whilst a spectator clinging to the railings examined the former scene. Policeman X passing, gave his attention to neither, but fixed it upon the individual holding by the railings, and gazing into ...
— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... declared Aunt Jane, musingly. "I didn't care much for her, at first; but she improves on acquaintance. She has been well trained by her mother, and is very ladylike ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces • Edith Van Dyne

... the floor reveals the girl sobbing over the body of the millionaire,'" he read, aloud, musingly. "H'mm! 'She screams and cries out.' Then ...
— The Film Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve

... observes the commander, musingly, "how that sort of feeling still affects the forecastle! For your genuine British tar, who'll board an enemy's ship, crawling across the muzzle of a shotted gun, and has no fear of death in human shape, will act like a scared child when it threatens him in the guise of his Satanic majesty! ...
— The Flag of Distress - A Story of the South Sea • Mayne Reid

... continued Sahwah musingly. "Although she wasn't with us so much I seem to miss her more and more as time goes on. I often dream I hear her playing her violin." Sahwah's admiration for Veronica had never waned, although Veronica had never had what Sahwah described as a "real emotional ...
— The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit - Or, Over the Top with the Winnebagos • Hildegard G. Frey

... did not reply at once, but sat looking steadfastly into his nephew's face, his eyes wearing the dreamy, far-away look which lingered in them much of late, and it was not until Noll had repeated his question that he replied, musingly,— ...
— Culm Rock - The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught • Glance Gaylord

... fell upon her knees and wept anew. The empress had listened musingly to her daughter's appeal. While Christina was speaking, the glamour of her own past love ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach



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