Absent-minded

Absent-minded moments were many that week, when, sitting in his office chair, in fancy he was astride the wonderful chestnut sorrel and trying to prevent an anticipated whirl.

Chapter XII 2010

William F. Buckley Jr., the intellectual force behind the modern American conservative movement, and his fashionable wife, Patricia, may have seemed to be a study in contrasts — Auntie Mame and the Absent-minded Professor, Pericles and Cleopatra — but those who knew them best understood how in tune they were mentally, morally, politically, and romantically.

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Bob Colacello 2009

Absent-minded empire keeps reinventing the local tribal levy, loyal to foreign capitals and paid by them, as a way of keeping the hostiles in check.

Juan Cole: Armageddon at the Top of the World: Not! 2009

William F. Buckley Jr., the intellectual force behind the modern American conservative movement, and his fashionable wife, Patricia, may have seemed to be a study in contrasts — Auntie Mame and the Absent-minded Professor, Pericles and Cleopatra — but those who knew them best understood how in tune they were mentally, morally, politically, and romantically.

Bob Colacello on Pat and Bill Buckley Colacello, Bob 2009

HEMMER: Absent-minded passengers left more than 11,000 laptops in taxis around the world last year, and that's not all.

CNN Transcript Jan 25, 2005 2005

Professor Cairnes's son, CAPTAIN W.E. CAIRNE. (1862-1906), was an able writer on military subjects, being author of _An Absent-minded War_ (1900),

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

Absent-minded people still went shopping for luxuries gone but not forgotten; to provoke a premature "April fool" from the startled grocer, who was powerless to make real the chimeras that haunted the jungles of the shoppers 'imaginations.

The Siege of Kimberley T. Phelan

Absent-minded Ernest had entirely forgotten that his father had taken the contents to the savings bank for him the preceding month, and that he had not been able to save up anything since.

Chicken Little Jane Lily Munsell Ritchie

Absent-minded! nay, thou soldier-poet, thou hast not got the measure of

From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers

The letters and messages sent home were in many cases of a most touching and tender character, and once more Tommy Atkins proved himself to be anything but an 'Absent-minded Beggar.'

From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers