"Abstracted" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Her manner was becoming abstracted. It seemed as if she were addressing herself, warning herself, and fighting down a weakness which was ...
— The Forfeit • Ridgwell Cullum
... noticed that Andrew, who had been absent for some time, and had only returned just in time for supper, looked worried and abstracted, and replied almost at random to any questions ...
— Bonnie Prince Charlie - A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden • G. A. Henty
... expressed an earnest wish to be present at the festivity; but meeting with no response in the darkened eye of Mr. Snodgrass, or the abstracted gaze of Mr. Pickwick, he applied himself with great interest to the port wine and dessert, which had just been placed on the table. The waiter withdrew, and the party were left to enjoy the cosy couple ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... little and sleeps little, and all he eats is fruit, and when he sleeps, if he sleeps at all, it is in the field on the hard earth like a brute beast. Sometimes he gazes at the sky, at other times he fixes his eyes on the earth in such an abstracted way that he might be taken for a clothed statue, with its drapery stirred by the wind. In short, he shows such signs of a heart crushed by suffering, that all we who know him believe that when to-morrow the fair Quiteria says 'yes,' it will be his ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
... he was aware of Mrs. Coppin crying in a corner, of Mr. Coppin drinking his health in the remains of sparkling limado, of Brothers Frank and Percy, one on each side trying to borrow simultaneously half-crowns, and of Muriel, flushed but demure, making bread-pellets and throwing them in an abstracted way, one by one, at the Coppin cat, which had wandered in on the chance ...
— A Man of Means • P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill
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