Lord Withen was obviously taken further aback by his tone and abstracted manner.

Mrs. Hubbard murmured, "Pleased to meet you, I'm sure," to all three of them in an abstracted manner and then plunged once more into her recital.

To clinch things, he slouched away, waving me in an abstracted manner to the towpath.

Peterkin gazed, in an abstracted and melancholy manner, out to sea!

If it had been anyways right to disappoint Cook," she pursued, in a contemplative and abstracted manner, "it might have been so easy done!

Her jaw was set in a largely abstracted manner, but save for paralysis, there was no way she might not have noticed what was occurring.

He had said all this in the gentlest of voices with unalterable coolness, and even with somewhat of an abstracted manner.

Christine Redfem glanced up at Poirot in a slightly abstracted manner.

"Yes, yes, yes," said Mr. Datchet, running his words together in the same abstracted manner, and sinking his head yet lower upon his breast.

They went back to Hamelin, who was watching the machine and humming in a painfully abstracted manner.