All 4 Uses of
abstract
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- He looked at the two, less and less attentively, and his eyes in gloomy abstraction sought the ground and looked about him in the old way.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Yet, no one could have looked at him twice, without looking again: even though the opportunity of observation had not extended to the mournful cadence of his low grave voice, and to the abstraction that overclouded him fitfully, without any apparent reason.†
Chpt 2.4
- He looked abstractedly from one to another, and said, in a lower voice, after a pause: "Will you answer his question to me then?†
Chpt 3.7
- "In a word," said Madame Defarge, coming out of her short abstraction, "I cannot trust my husband in this matter.†
Chpt 3.14
Definition:
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(abstract as in: abstract thought) of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance