abstracted

• Mr. Underwood grew more and more abstracted, the mandolin ceased, and Darrell, soothed by his surroundings to a temporary forgetfulness of his troubles, swung gently back and forth in a sort of dreamy content. —  At the Time Appointed
• Now he grew abstracted, as if I had taken away his pleasant afternoon and wakened him to his miseries. —  Youth and the Bright Medusa
• Lord Glenfallen's temper and spirits gradually underwent a complete and most painful change; he became silent and abstracted, his manner to me was abrupt and often harsh, some grievous anxiety seemed ever present to his mind; and under its influence his spirits sunk and his temper became soured. —  Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin
• Her expression was abstracted, her eyes had an inward look. —  Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People
• In his later work, in which he dealt with the same period at greater length, the account which he had abstracted from a Greek source, probably Nicholas of Damascus, is corrected by the Jewish work. —  Josephus

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