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... passage we may gather, not only that Chaucer was, as the "Host" of the Tabard's transparent self-irony implies, small of stature and slender, but that he was accustomed to be twitted on account of the abstracted or absent look which so often tempts children of the world to offer its wearer a penny for his thoughts. For "elfish" means bewitched by the elves, and hence vacant or ...

— Chaucer • Adolphus William Ward

... knees in the most ungraceful manner. Neither in his face nor figure was there the least indication of the great faculties of the man, and a more awkward-looking personage it would be impossible to imagine. In his hand he held a lemon, which he sucked from time to time, and his demeanor was abstracted and absent. ...

— A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee • John Esten Cooke

... and loosest dishabille, They show the world they've nothing to conceal! But sit abstracted in their own George Sand, And dote on Vice in sentiment so bland! To necklaced Pug appropriate a chair, Or sit alone, knit, shepherdise, and stare! These seek for fashion in a mourning dress, (Becoming mourning makes affliction less.) With mincing ...

— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 • Various

... said at last, as she still knelt before the fire, looking deep into the coals, absorbed, abstracted, "I think that I am going ...

— The Pit • Frank Norris

... and abstracted. During the last ten days of enforced idleness he had considered the subject for hours at a time and from every conceivable angle, with the result that a certain possibility occurred to him and persisted in lingering ...

— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames

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