But while the mind carols lightly in poetry and music, its deeper musings take the form of Religion.
Perhaps I may be indulged in some quiet musings here, before we embark on the Red Sea, and seek a new world in India.
It had aspirations; and, as a background to all its musings and all its hopes there remained ever the idea of the Infinite.
Yet it is safe to say that he came out of his musings and looked about him.
Hazel went back to her musings without another word, and only the least bit of a triumphant curl about the corners of her mouth.
The derisive smile of Crowe did not sweeten Harry's musings while he waited for his next going on.
Marian was startled from her musings by his voice close at hand, saying, "All alone, Marian?
Honour to thee, and peace, and musings high, Good-night!
VIII The ways of our musings are as devious, as unexpected, as those of a general conversation: there is no presiding spirit to keep us to a standing topic!
Our dead out of sight, work claimed all our attention and energy, wiping with its benificent influence all gloomy musings over the inevitable, and replacing them with the pressing needs of life.
The musings of the unfortunate but high-souled nobleman in expectation of ignominious death are interesting and pathetic, but they have no claim to a tune, even if they were less rugged and unmetrical.
She, too, it was whose amorous musings Boccaccio published in a book which bore her name.
In spite of himself, Locksley Hall and those musings which have become, by no fault of the poet's, the expression of a despair which is half ridiculous, came into his mind.
He had been about her all the afternoon, and Bice, disturbed in her musings by this onslaught and somewhat impatient of the caresses, beheld his departure with satisfaction.
Having bitterly schooled himself to see men as paragraphs walking, he finds that his most august musings have a habit of stewing themselves down to some ferocious or jocular three-line comment.
It is the highest degree of that influence which manifests itself in slow steps, in subdued tones of voice, in motionless musings beside the fire.
Now, if I were anxious to pass myself off upon my readers as a great and thoughtful man, I might here give an account of the profound thoughts which I think in my daily musings in my pretty churchyard.
They afterwards gave me entrance to Bell's Life and to the Field, and a name at any rate amongst the brethren of the Angle, as to which I must not gush, but which is very dear to the musings of an old man's eventide.
For myself, to assist in the development of the ripe fruit of patience, I kept mostly to musings that had Abbotsford for its centre, and re-read Lockhart on the spot with which that ponderous volume is so closely concerned.
Don Marquis has something of Dobsonian cunning to set his musings to delicate, austere music.
And to our delicious surprise we find that the whole of two long chapters constitutes merely his musings in half an hour while he is waiting for dinner at his uncle's house.
My musings were brought to an end by the reappearance of Linny, who came down holding her pretty little white hand to me.
My musings were interrupted by the loud entry at the end of about half an hour of a cross-looking servant-girl, who banged a small tray containing a mug and a plate of bread and butter down before me.
But the young surgeon had a good deal of work to do, now that his father had admitted him to the solemn rights of partnership, and very little time for any sentimental musings in the churchyard.
She remembered how she had seen him once ride by upon the dusty road, unconscious of her presence, grand and self-absorbed as Count Lara; but amongst all her musings she had never imagined any danger coming to him in that shape.
My musings were suddenly cut short by a deep-drawn sigh from my horse, then a slight shudder, and the next moment he was dead under me.
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