distrait

He seemed oddly distrait, she thought, and wondered whether their teasing about his political ideas could have upset him.

He wandered around the room for some minutes after the attendant had left, too distrait to return to his recapitulation.

Abbot Heribert lifted a distrait hand in blessing, and led the way out of the chapter-house.

Mr. Harry seemed a bit distrait to-night.

During the week following the finding of Pardee's body Vance was restive and more distrait than usual.

In the end he did prepare breakfast though in a distrait fashion; indeed I found him beginning to make tea in the frying-pan.

Though the performance was excellent, Vance was too distrait to enjoy it; and it was significant that, after the opera, he directed the chauffeur to the Stuyvesant Club.

He was unusually distrait as he buttered a slice of toast and cut into one of the rashers on his plate, then after a minute's thoughtful chewing he brought down his hand on the table with a suddenness that made me jump.

"He is so DISTRAIT that he thinks he is at St. Petersburg," said the Major, when he saw the geographer wrapped in an immense great-coat, as if the mercury had been frozen in the thermometer.

He still looks somewhat distrait, however, and retains that wild look in his eyes which in a Highlander would mean that he was "fey"--at least so our chief engineer remarked to me, and he has some reputation among the Celtic portion of our crew as a seer and expounder of omens.