dreamy abstraction
Example Sentences
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"Oh, no!" replied the girl, with a certain dreamy abstraction.
From Dr. Breen's Practice by William Dean Howells
But presently she was back once more, this time with the tablecloth, which she proceeded to spread, though still lost in dreamy abstraction.
From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol
Again she could be steeped in a dreamy abstraction or alive with a pagan joy of life.
From The Net by Rex Ellingwood Beach
With that he was off, eager-eyed and alert, the mood of dreamy abstraction dropped like a cloak discarded.
From Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer
The figures are absorbed in their own thoughts; they stand isolated apart, as though the painter wishes to intensify the mood of dreamy abstraction.
From Giorgione by Herbert Cook
