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operator musing on how his job could be more efficient
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longing for childhood or the musing on times
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He spent a happy hour musing on the vagaries of fortune and on his
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Musing over this, she ate her way steadily through the food on her plate
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was just musing about the copper and his comical old bike when he
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I contented myself with these discoveries for this time, and came back, musing with myself what course I might take to know the virtue and goodness of any of the fruits or plants which I should discover, but could bring it to no conclusion; for, in short, I had made so little observation while I was in the Brazils, that I knew little of the plants in the field; at least, very little that might serve to any purpose now in my distress
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Musing had always been good for Nathan, this time it was no exception
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Putting down the paper, musing on this subject, one could hear a faint droning in the distance
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Instead, he nodded in silent agreement and then said with a careful choice of words as if musing on the matter:
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She found her musing turn to lust for all that money, and wondered as to the wisdom of throwing it into the sea
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The General had been musing on these recent past events for some time it seemed, because he could hear anxiety and worry in the words that his adjutant repeated in the same staccato manner:
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The Pilgrim was offering a reverent gaze to it, seemingly musing about the workings of God in His Land, engrossed in thought and prayer
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Musing about the workings of the game I remembered the seed and how pivotal it’s role actually is: the rules of the game clearly state that ‘in the highly improbable case of technical error, the current game ends in a draw and is reseeded to allow the players a fair second chance at winning’
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But there was a group that had sought to challenge my witness, the musing continued
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3 My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned; then spoke I with my tongue,
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Chloe was quiet for a moment, musing over the spell, nothing came to mind
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“As I say, I have not experienced this before,” Gelahn continued as if he were musing to himself
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Musing upon them; as a mother, who
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Calvin stared past the wall, musing
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Bill: I beg to differ with Michael on one point in this lengthy metaphysical musing
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He tossed them to the children and returned his silent musing to the river
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' He left her there still musing over his age
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It was light enough to see and the musing Indian peered through the moisture laden air searching for the three sentinel palm trees overhanging the landing place
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I need to smack it with a hammer," Ed said flatly still musing about this stranger who was more familiar to him than his own brother
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At last, he said, “You’re quite a big chap aint you, James?” I shrugged and he continued, as if musing to himself, “Now I wonder what it is that you want with ‘Sonny Boy’ Vern? -Something to his advantage, is it?” I laughed shortly and he said, predictably, “Yeess!” as if meaning precisely the opposite
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“Y’know what I’d love?” she continues, keeping the edge out of her voice, as if musing to herself
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Still musing over what lay beneath the surface but realizing he had more pressing matters to tend to in the immediate future, he nodded then approached the entrance to the verandah from which he could see the waves crashing aggressively ashore and the lightning bouncing from the choppy surface of the ocean that was almost cloaked by the driving rain and the now thin fog
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She touched his face, musing silently
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Garcia scratched his face a little, either enjoying the laughter as he appeared to be musing about couch jumping or actually considering the antics
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The next question was directed at Garcia, but he was still musing over all the unique gifts each of the members of his band had brought to help create their unique look and sound, and though he had heard the question, he delayed processing it
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"What's that?" Asked Shinds musing
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“True,” he agreed, musing
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He took a sip and leaned into his desk, musing over the situation, his eyes on his First Officer, but not focused until he was ready to speak
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“Never thought of that,” Juan said, musing over the music
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He returned to his musing about the mysterious sedan
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“Yeah, but that could also work for us,” Crusher said, musing
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Andrew said nothing, musing over the crow’s words
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“What a perceptive child,” the panther said, musing
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Musing, Helios sat on Tom’s shoulder
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Cam said goodbye and disconnected, musing that whatever happened, he could get used to the idea of going home to her
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“What do you think?” Musing to himself, he knew Henri would be devastated at the loss and blame himself for not being here
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” KoK appeared to be musing to himself, so the S3 agent could have the 1102
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“It’s incredible how fate works sometimes,” Kathy continued in a musing tone of voice
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Musing about her awakening as her mind became clearer, she remembered a dream
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But now, because of all this musing he was doing right now, he might remember this particular cat even in ten years time
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But it was more recent history that both detectives were musing about in silence
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His musing was interrupted by the employee who handed him a print out
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These acts of violence had gone beyond bestial; he continued musing to himself
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I opened my suitcase again, brought out my pajamas, put them on and lay in bed musing things over
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The rest is useless philosophical musing
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There is always this sense of loss, this musing of how nice it would have been to have known her then
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Peering through the slots in the blinds, he spoke in a ruminating, almost musing sort of tone
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I was lying there musing over all this prior to starting my day, when alarms started going off left right and centre and I wondered what on earth was going on
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He pondered and rubbed his forehead, and, strange to say, after long musing, suddenly, as if it were spontaneously and by chance, a fantastic thought came into his head
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"At Tellson's banking-house at nine," he said, with a musing face
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Then he sank into dreary musing again
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He fell to musing by what process it could come to pass, that he could be humbled before all of them, indiscriminately--humbled by conviction
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Flanders would fall musing about Morty, her brother, lost all these years--had the natives got him, was his ship sunk--would the Admiralty tell her?--the Captain knocking his pipe out, as Jacob knew, rising to go, stiffly stretching to pick up Mrs
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And the wife and the child and the musing comrade suffer'd,
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And each with musing soul retire to celebrate,
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Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to
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Musing on long-pass'd war-scenes--of the countless buried unknown
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past, here new musing,)
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Thanks to this inspiration, he got on swimmingly for a time, but gradually the work lost its charm, and he forgot to compose, while he sat musing, pen in hand, or roamed about the gay city to get some new ideas and refresh his mind, which seemed to be in a somewhat unsettled state that winter
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Well then, when they gave the signal for the onset our lacquey was in an ecstasy, musing upon the beauty of her whom he had already made mistress of his liberty, and so he paid no attention to the sound of the trumpet, unlike Don Quixote, who was off the instant he heard it, and, at the highest speed Rocinante was capable of, set out to meet his enemy, his good squire Sancho shouting lustily as he saw him start, "God guide thee, cream and flower of knights-errant! God give thee the victory, for thou hast the right on thy side!" But though Tosilos saw Don Quixote coming at him he never stirred a step from the spot where he was posted; and instead of doing so called loudly to the marshal of the field, to whom when he came up to see what he wanted he said, "Senor, is not this battle to decide whether I marry or do not marry that lady?" "Just so," was the answer
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All unaware of the War Angel already awaiting, with the trumpet at his lips, the stroke of the fatal hour, I sat there, thinking that this life of ours is neither long nor short, but that it can appear very wonderful, entertaining, and pathetic, with symbolic images and bizarre associations crowded into one half-hour of retrospective musing
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I saw him smile to himself---grin rather---and lapse into ominous musing whenever Mrs
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But I've been as happy musing by myself among those stones, under that old church: lying, through the long June evenings, on the green mound of her mother's grave, and wishing---yearning for the time when I might lie beneath it
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Heathcliff looked at him a bit, and then silently resumed his breakfast and his interrupted musing
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just as I was musing on a liberality I had certainly not expected, Mrs
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For several hours I was left to myself, sometimes musing on the islanders—but no longer fearing them because the captain's unflappable confidence had won me over—and sometimes forgetting them to marvel at the splendors of this tropical night
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" The hard, weather-beaten features of the scout began to work, and when she had ended, he dropped his chin to his hand, like a man musing profoundly on the nature of the proposal
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The scout dropped one end of his rifle to the earth, and leaning his hands on the other, he stood musing in profound silence
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"Morning is just touching them below," said the deliberate and musing scout, "and the watchers have a mind to wake up the sleepers by the sound of cannon
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Duncan had stood in a musing attitude, contemplating this scene a few minutes, when his eyes were directed to the glacis in front of the sally-port already mentioned, by the sounds of approaching footsteps
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After musing a moment, he added:
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The melancholy air, the hour, together with the vast frame of the man who thus leaned, musing, against the English ramparts, left no doubt as to his person in the mind of the observant spectator
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Without attending to this sudden change in the other's humor, the scout after musing a moment continued:
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The head of Chingachgook was resting on a hand, as he sat musing by himself but the moment he had heard the warning of the animal whose name he bore, he arose to an upright position, and his dark eyes glanced swiftly and keenly on every side of him
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Signor Pastrini remained silent a short time; it was evident that he was musing over this answer, which did not seem very clear
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Hawkeye moved away from the lookout, and descended, musing profoundly, to the shore
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He was seated on a pile of brush, a few twigs from which occasionally fed his low fire, with his head leaning on his arm, in a posture of melancholy musing
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Had there been one sufficiently curious to have watched the movements of the newly elected chief, he would have seen him seated in a corner of his lodge, musing on the subject of his future plans, from the hour of his retirement to the time he had appointed for the warriors to assemble again
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The warriors were lounging in groups, musing more than they conversed and when a few words were uttered, speaking like men who deeply weighed their opinions
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A long and musing pause succeeded
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"Well, then," added the scout, with the musing air of a man who had not half made up his mind; "I will throw 'killdeer' into the bargain
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"I begin to think," said Estella, in a musing way, after another moment of calm wonder, "that I almost understand how this comes about
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Merthin left the priory and walked back to Leper Island, musing
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and stood musing, musing; his mind strangely stirred
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pilgrims that had gone this way formerly; and while I was musing what should be the reason, I espied a little before me a cave, where two giants, POPE and PAGAN, dwelt in old time; by whose power and tyranny the men whose bones, blood, and ashes, &c
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Cole should come in, I found in one of my pockets a purse of guineas, which he had slipt there; and just as I was musing on a liberality I had certainly not expected, Mrs
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Suppose I am taught,’ he went on musing, ‘to shoot; I press the trigger,’ he said to himself, closing his eyes, ‘and it turns out I have killed him,’ Alexey Alexandrovitch said to himself, and he shook his head as though to dispel such silly ideas
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Musing on such thoughts Levin reached home in the
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And the three women all fell to musing on the same thing
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simple and easy, that she began musing with enjoyment on how he would suffer, and repent and love her memory when it would be too late
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’ She went on musing
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He fell to musing by what process it could come to pass, that he could be humbled before all of them, indiscriminately—humbled by conviction
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"Why, Trumbull himself is pretty sure of five hundred—that you may depend,—I shouldn't wonder if my brother promised him," said Solomon, musing aloud with his sisters, the evening before the funeral
