Mrs. Rossitur took up the magazine again abstractedly, and read –. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
She pronounced the name abstractedly, for she was surprised at the admission. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail to Yesterday] Reference
These last may be termed abstractedly and simply friends, the former as. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
"Ah, that is late, indeed," said the emperor abstractedly. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
"I hev thought of this thing afore," said Moses abstractedly. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers] Reference
"Nuffin, massa; I war only tinkin '," he abstractedly replied. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
I arose and dressed abstractedly and went in search of Hortense. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
Then with a heavy sigh he looked out of the window abstractedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
"Open it, Molly," she said abstractedly, thinking it might be either. From Wordnik.com. [Sara, a Princess] Reference
She only sat there abstractedly, with her hand lifted from the wrist. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
He shook hands abstractedly all around when the affair came to a close. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
He paused, then continued abstractedly: "She can keep it in her house.". From Wordnik.com. [Terry A Tale of the Hill People] Reference
He spoke a little abstractedly, for he saw a delicate situation approaching. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Silence followed, and Gualtier sat looking abstractedly at his sheet of music. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
"He goes along as abstractedly as though he were drunk and were seeing double.". From Wordnik.com. [The New Pun Book] Reference
I went on biting my lips abstractedly, with my head leaning against the casement. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
But Raymond looked abstractedly into the distance and undertook no definite reply. From Wordnik.com. [On the Stairs] Reference
He rises from his seat, and abstractedly stares at the Star, then at the audience. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
"Like de shore ob de new Jerusalem," interposed Hagar, gazing abstractedly in her dish-pan. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
He let the paper fall and, unmindful of his breakfast, gazed abstractedly out of the window. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
He entered the garden at the back of the house, and walked abstractedly from alley to alley. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Papa says that Frederic shall be sent to Eton, by and bye," she replied, rather abstractedly. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an Etonian] Reference
Him he abstractedly sits down upon, and then listens intently for any casual remark he may make. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 11, June 11, 1870] Reference
Beatrice gave her hand without a word, lifelessly and coldly; Despard took his hand abstractedly. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
We stood for a few seconds in silence, during which I looked abstractedly into the space before me. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
"We were, sir," says Judge SWEENEY, abstractedly removing the bowl to a sideboard on his farther side. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870] Reference
Count Victor, walking abstractedly along the river-bank, came on them before he was aware of their proximity. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
"I suppose you read of the arrest of Brown, the coachman?" he remarked, abstractedly, after a moment's silence. From Wordnik.com. [That Mainwaring Affair] Reference
I sat a little apart from my friends, leaning over the railing, looking abstractedly into the dark restless water. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
'Waiting -- ceremony --' said the rector, abstractedly, gazing upward at the ceiling -- 'Oh, marriage ceremony, you mean?. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
Billie, sitting abstractedly on the ground, piling and re-piling the sandwiches, was startled by Ben's rather impatient voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
She answered her companions 'gay sallies rather abstractedly, with the air of one whose thoughts were anywhere but on her guests. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Something familiar in the grand air rolling out to them causes EDWIN DROOD to repeat, abstractedly, "I feel -- I feel -- I feel ---". From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 12, June 18, 1870] Reference
"Where else would he put it?" asked Willie, abstractedly, as he tried to read some meaning into the grocer's apparently meaningless acts. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Wireless or, The Spy Hunt of the Camp Brady Patrol] Reference
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