abstractedly

He considered the matter for some time, frowning abstractedly at the table top.

He got up, abstractedly watching the door slowly turning red hot.

"Once will be enough for most of them," I commented abstractedly.

"I wonder if all that makes any difference," he said abstractedly.

Abstractedly be ran his hands over the edge on which he was leaning.

But most of the night he sat in silence, gazing abstractedly into the fire.

She looked up at him with eyes that did not properly focus, smiled abstractedly.

"There will be no image, of course," the count said abstractedly.

The eyes of each were open, gazing abstractedly down at a 45 degree angle.

The ruddy one smiled at me abstractedly and also got up.

He nodded abstractedly, his attention on the handful of drawings.

He watched them abstractedly for a moment, chewing his nails.

Charles looked at his father for permission, who said abstractedly, "Give it her."

Even at home, he replied abstractedly, our knowledge is severely limited.

He spoke almost abstractedly, but I halted in my tracks.

He looked abstractedly at the dark port beyond which the stars flew by.

Helen asked abstractedly, as if she were conversing with herself.

It was a powerful piece," she said abstractedly, looking out of the window and away.

Abstractedly she gathered materials and made herself a cheese sandwich.

Hal had already reached that conclusion and only nodded abstractedly.

Morrow thought abstractedly, a thing of cold, hard planes and edges.

She continued to toy with the wash-stand as though abstractedly.

Sam nodded abstractedly as the tape clicked over and started to play again.

Peterson nodded abstractedly - his thought processes were almost visible.

He looked abstractedly from one to another, and said, in a lower voice, after a pause: "Will you answer his question to me then?