dreamy abstraction
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The Gentleman-in-Powder became lost in dreamy abstraction, with the exception of his legs which worked slightly.
From The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol
He lay back upon his couch with a dreamy abstraction in his gaze.
From French and English A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green
With that he was off, eager-eyed and alert, the mood of dreamy abstraction dropped like a cloak discarded.
From Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer
"Oh, no!" replied the girl, with a certain dreamy abstraction.
From Dr. Breen's Practice by William Dean Howells
There was a tone of impatience in her voice, which Tournier, however, noticed not, but passed from his former eagerness of manner into a sort of dreamy abstraction, as if talking to himself.
From The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale by Rev. Arthur Brown
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