Her mother said that she loved story-books entirely too much, that they made her absent-minded and forgetful, and her mother's words were proving themselves true this very afternoon.

It doesn't seem to me that she will ever grow up; she is such a little puss, always absent-minded, with a book in her hand.

When the dessert had been placed on the table and one or two had reflectively eaten a baked almond, more from habit than desire, the little wizened man looked round the table with the manner of a rather absent-minded host.

But Juanita was absent-minded.

He's probably gone off with that other man, thoughhe's an absent-minded chap in some things, and too much given to the affair of the moment.

"I am afraid I seem a very absent-minded person," he said.

He was silent, absent-minded, and sad.

One day he found a copy of "The Improbable Marquis" in the Charing Cross Road, and was glancing through it with absent-minded interest, when a voice at his elbow said, "I shouldn't buy that if I were you, sir.

He hadn't, hitherto, actually disliked Mr. Moffatt, who was always in a good humour, and seemed less busy and absent-minded than his mother; but at that instant he felt a rage of hate for him.

But, anyway, when Aunt Jane called him he got his hat and hurried off without so much as one word to me, who was standing near, or to Aunt Jane, who was following him all through the hall, and telling him in her most I'm-amazed-at-you voice how shockingly absent-minded he was getting to be.

But that only goes to show how absent-minded he was, and how little he was really thinking of me!

I knew that, and so I spoke quick, before he could get absent-minded again.

She gave her aunt a rather absent-minded greeting and a highly condensed summary of her news.

Might have been a bit absent-minded-like at Auchy-en-Artois, and again at Pressy-aux-Bois mistakes may have been made, but here neverno, Sir, s'welp-them-Gawd.

" "It was rude, my dear; I hope you will pardon me," he replied, stepping quickly forward, "but I am very absent-minded to-night.

He walked absent-minded along the terrace in the strange silence that had succeeded.

The judge did this unconsciously, without thinking, and scarcely knowing that he did do it; for he was a plain man, rather awkward and very absent-minded, and deeply absorbed in the study of his profession.

I saw somethin' was the matter from the absent-minded way he talked an' by his lookin' mostly at the floor.

You seemed a little absent-minded once or twice; but that was quite in keeping.

Once there he seemed to think an apology necessary, for he turned and spoke with absent-minded courtesy.

He was absent-minded, off on a trail that led away from her.

It is she who is so absent-minded, thinking of him, that her maid suspects her passion; she who, when a royal suitor is suggested to her, exclaims, "'Tis love I crave to bestow, not homage.

Absent-minded, as one in a revery, or dreaming aloud, she answers the addresses of the king and his women in words that ever refer to her shepherd lover: "Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest thy flock."

That has happened before to an absent-minded fellow who was about to toss one at the Boches, and it doesn't do to be absent-minded when you throw bombs.

" "Pockets is the hangedest things I ever see for makin' a man absent-minded," he communed that night, as he crawled into his blankets.