• Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative
  Meaning: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";

• Synonyms: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness
  Meaning: a calm, lengthy, intent consideration

• Perhaps the grayer friend heard it, as he sat musing by the fire.
• "At Tellson's banking-house at nine," he said, with a musing face.
• Toad walked slowly round it, inspecting, criticising, musing deeply.
• But thereupon his face darkened again, and he lost himself in troubled musing.
• He sat musing for a little, and then started and said: "Are there any more questions, dear guest?
• "Oh! Denny!" said Craven, musing; "yes, Denny is a hard man, but a just one according to his lights.
• "Extremely singular!" said the young Baron, with a musing air, and apparently unconscious of the meaning of his words.
• He was given to musing but not to avoidable action, and he seemed habitually to hope for something which he was pretty sure would not happen.
• As he stood, half musing, Will Banion heard, on the ravine side around the bend, the tinkle of a falling stone, lazily rolling from one impediment to another.
• 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. And yet why not?

0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Disneyland with the Death Penalty, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Zelda Fitzgerald, License CC BY-SA 4.0