| He is looking up abstractedly into the middle distance with a slightly suppressed smile. |
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| Suffused with a post-Romantic melancholy, it seems to wander abstractedly through a softly glowing mist. |
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| As Nelson abstractedly went over some of the myriad of reports that covered his desk, the intercom on his desk interrupted him. |
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| While everyone else engages in some form of inward or outward dialogue, they stare abstractedly into space, oblivious to their surroundings. |
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| Stepping back he pulled the window abstractedly but bangingly down, and leaning against the wall in the quietness began to read. |
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| His right eye opened like a blue crack of sky, and his other hand pushed flat against the metal wall — and then, impossibly, he was standing up, staring abstractedly at Louis, half his face a sputtering blank. |
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| Whenever he faces a vexing story problem, he pulls abstractedly at his forelock, twisting it into a kind of tusk that, if he lowered his head and charged, would deal the problem a mortal blow. |
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| He stepped along, lashing abstractedly at a boot with his whip. |
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| Usually, on such visits, the colonel made much of the dog. Today he merely glanced up abstractedly from his writing, at sight of Bruce's silken head at his side. |
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| Abstractedly she listens as her daughter, standing up straight in an onrush of light at the open kitchen door, talks to a deliveryman. |
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