Abstractedly
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Mr. Pickwick walked on
abstractedly
, crossed opposite the Mansion House, and bent his steps up Cheapside.
More example sentences with word abstractedly
Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Insan was flown to prison in a luxurious helicopter with an “adopted daughter” in devoted attendance; he nibbled
abstractedly
at a piece of chocolate as a police escort carried his bags.
The Serjeant was writing when his clients entered; he bowed
abstractedly
when Mr. Pickwick was introduced by his solicitor; and then, motioning them to a seat, put his pen carefully in the inkstand, nursed his left leg, and waited to be spoken to.
In one of these pauses of invention, the scientific gentleman was gazing
abstractedly
on the thick darkness outside, when he was very much surprised by observing a most brilliant light glide through the air, at a short distance above the ground, and almost instantaneously vanish.
'Bless my dear eyes!' said Mr. Roker, shaking his head slowly from side to side, and gazing
abstractedly
out of the grated windows before him, as if he were fondly recalling some peaceful scene of his early youth; 'it seems but yesterday that he whopped the coal-heaver down Fox-under-the-Hill by the wharf there.
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