The long lashes drooped over Violante's musing eyes as she spoke.
So I cannot talk and think, or indulge in melancholy musing and lively conversation by fits and starts.
I did not go to bed, but either sat musing by a table or walked across the room.
He sat musing for a while, then burst into sighs and lamentations.
While musing upon these ideas, my eye was fixed upon the foaming current.
While musing upon this expedient, and weighing injuries with benefits, the night closed upon me.
She had carefully marked his musing and melancholy deportment.
He spent two days and a night at Margate visiting his son at his preparatory school, and he found much material for musing in the question of just how the high romantic affairs ahead of him would affect this delicately intelligent boy.
Well," said the elder sister, smiling and half shutting her eyes with a musing look, "I think myself that we all know each other a little too well to make our affairs very exciting.
The elder man was apparently musing upon something which had been suggested to his mind.
The bride, in an ample blue robe, walks musing beside a stream, upon the bank of which white lilies grow, whilst the vehement figures of the North and South Winds rush through the air in grey, fluttering garments.
At the foot of a pillared porch strange figures lie by the shore or stand erect amid the pale grass, one with her arm pointing upwards, another musing with her hand resting upon her chin, a third unrolling a parchment.
There is a manmusing over the memories of his life, as he sits upon a white marble throne in front of a long white marble wall, amid an evening landscape.
While he was musing thus Ivanoff suddenly hailed him in a loud voice.
She was musing on all that had just happened, and her experiences, if they had caused delight, had yet provoked shame.
The truth was, she had just been musing on her own dissolution, and imagining, in a luxury of woe, her own funeral, with all the circumstance of that sad event.
Wentworth followed him with his eye as he disappeared; then sank into the musing mood which had grown habitual to him.
He was still musingin this strain, when Morton returned, a changed man in person and in mind.
Meanwhile Wentworth sat musing by the window: "His face haunts me; and yet, for my life, I cannot remember where I have seen him before.
Often I sit here for hours, musing over your destiny to be, so that at times I may almost say that in your life I live.
I was musing upon the singular character of this triangular war, when my reverie was disturbed by the hoof strokes of a horse.
I was musing on this disagreeable theme, after my return from the cerro, and endeavouring to sketch out some plan for the safety of my betrothed during my absence; but my thoughts proved barren.
Hence, naturally and insensibly, this secluded and musing girl had associated all that she read in tales of romance and chivalry with the image of the brave and loyal stranger.
The door opened softly, and a lady past middle age entered, and approaching Harley, as he still stood musing by the window, laid her hand on his shoulder.
Randal then walked some minutes musing and slow along the streets, revolving the next meshes in his elaborate and most subtle web.
One morning as he stood musing on the lawn, irresolute as to the best site for the tents, Leonard came up to him with an open letter in his hand.
The count touched the arm of the musing usurer, "J'ai bien joue mon role, n'est ce pas?
Lashmar had seemed to be musing whilst he savoured a slice of pine-apple.
After an hour or so of smoking and musing and mental vacillation, he sat down to write his letter.
I wonder, now, who built the old shanty,' I said in a musing tone.
I thought there was one more camp,--at Burntwood River,' said our Lady in a musing tone.
As I went musing along in Westmoreland that rainy morning, so many years ago, little figures seemed to accompany me, and childish voices filled the air as I trudged through the wet grass.
I can imagine him, in his quiet, musing way, strolling through the daisied fields on a Sunday morning and hearing the distant church-bells chiming to service.
I used to watch his dark, solitary figure under the stars, pacing up and down some unfrequented part of the vessel, musing and half melancholy.
While I was thus musing with my self, my worthy Friend the Clergyman, who, very luckily for me, was at the Club that Night, undertook my Cause.
Lady Capel looked in her granddaughter's musing face, and then, with a chuckle, hobbled to the bell and rang for her maid.
On the contrary, had Hyde been watching Katherine, he would have been certain that she wasmusing on her lover.
How one might enjoy them could he ramble here alone, or with one congenial and musingcompanion to answer to his moralising.
It was the hungry hour of two, and I was still musing on the emperor’s dinner, and admiring the anxious interest his servants took in their disposition of the baskets, when a blast of military music came to my ear.
It was a simple tribute to her virtues, and he uttered it slowly, as if he were merely musing to himself.
So you are pilgrims to Mecca," he said, looking from mother to daughter with his gentle, musing smile.
