dreamy abstraction
Example Sentences
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"Oh, no!" replied the girl, with a certain dreamy abstraction.
From Dr. Breen's Practice by Howells, William Dean
She ate her dinner in dreamy abstraction, her thoughts on Mac and the enticing prospects he had held out.
From Calvary Alley by Rice, Alice Caldwell Hegan
Hearn lost his faith then or shortly afterwards: Thompson's irregular habits of dreamy abstraction rendered him unfit for a sacerdotal career.
From The Hound of Heaven by Thompson, Francis
He displayed no longer the same thoughtless gayety or the same dreamy abstraction.
From The Truce of God A Tale of the Eleventh Century by Miles, George Henry
Again she could be steeped in a dreamy abstraction or alive with a pagan joy of life.
From The Net by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
