Daylight hefted it
absent-mindedly, and, still
absent-mindedly, untied the strings and ran some of the gold-dust out on his palm.
A plowman was skinning his farm one morning--not the steepest part of it, but still a steep part--that is, he was not skinning the front of his farm, but the roof of it, near the eaves--when he
absent-mindedly let go of the plow-handles to moisten his hands, in the usual way; he lost his balance and fell out of his farm backward; poor fellow, he never touched anything till he struck bottom, fifteen hundred feet below.
Foinet stood for a moment in front of Clutton's work, biting his thumb silently, then
absent-mindedly spat out upon the canvas the little piece of skin which he had bitten off.
Twice within the past few minutes he has started
absent-mindedly across the tracks in the direction of a near-by swamp, only to be rescued and dragged back by the tireless Mr.
She began her sentence, at any rate, and Katharine sat down at her own table, untied the bundle of old letters upon which she was working, smoothed them out
absent-mindedly, and began to decipher the faded script.
Raskolnikov at once pretended not to have seen him, but to be looking
absent-mindedly away, while he watched him out of the corner of his eye.
He would have swum to shore with merely a feeling of amused self-reproach akin to that of the man who
absent-mindedly walks into a lamp-post in the street.
At Cambridge there are people to talk to," Helen echoed him, rhythmically and
absent-mindedly.
When he had taken it down the day before he had folded it in four,
absent-mindedly, before dropping it on the table.
Doogle lies at their feet and the pupils find themselves patting his head
absent-mindedly while they read.
Then, he went on vacation for a month and
absent-mindedly forgot about his patient
You get the idea, it's pretty far out and pretty great, if a little niche - perfect for those nights, perhaps, when you've
absent-mindedly banged a load of mescaline and amphetamines and just can't settle You know the ones.
