| Captain George Percy Cavendish, standing at the window, looking abstractedly out at the starlit and gaslit street, was thinking. |
| Stepping back he pulled the window abstractedly but bangingly down, and leaning against the wall in the quietness began to read. |
| She only sat there abstractedly, with her hand lifted from the wrist. |
| While everyone else engages in some form of inward or outward dialogue, they stare abstractedly into space, oblivious to their surroundings. |
| Good Indian twisted a wisp of mane in his fingers, and frowned abstractedly. |
| Suffused with a post-Romantic melancholy, it seems to wander abstractedly through a softly glowing mist. |
