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1 And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
2 The pedestrian noticed nothing just now, and a clue to her abstraction was afforded by a trivial incident.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky
3 He came into the room and nodded abstractedly to Wildeve, his lips still parted, and his features excruciatingly strained in the emission of the chorus.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 5 Perplexity among Honest People
4 The grief had been there so shortly as to have abstracted nothing of the bloom, and had as yet but given a dignity to what it might eventually undermine.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 4 The Halt on the Turnpike Road
5 Whilst she abstractedly watched them spinning and fluctuating in the increasing moonlight she suddenly heard her name whispered by a voice over her shoulder.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 4: 3 She Goes Out to Battle against Depression
6 They listened to the words of the man in their midst, who was preaching, while they abstractedly pulled heather, stripped ferns, or tossed pebbles down the slope.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 6: 4 Cheerfulness Again Asserts Itself at Blooms-End, and Clym Finds His
7 One evening when he was thus standing in the garden, abstractedly spudding up a weed with his stick, a bony figure turned the corner of the house and came up to him.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
8 He would then return to the old man, who made another remark about the state of the country and so on, to which the reddleman again abstractedly replied, and then again they would lapse into silence.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble
9 To have lost the godlike conceit that we may do what we will, and not to have acquired a homely zest for doing what we can, shows a grandeur of temper which cannot be objected to in the abstract, for it denotes a mind that, though disappointed, forswears compromise.
Return of the NativeBy Thomas Hardy ContextHighlight In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night