The distrait promoter at once decided to try not only Bailey and Kaffrath, but Videra; but even as he drove toward the office of the first-mentioned Cowperwood was personally busy reaching him by telephone.
This is no meeting of Pinski followers, but a conglomerate outpouring of all those elements of a distrait populace bent on enforcing for once the principles of aldermanic decency.
Nobody could possibly be looking so aloof and distrait as Erb if there were a murder going on.
Forgive me if I seem a little distrait for a moment or two.
In the centre of the window, gazing out in a distrait manner over piles of apples and grape-fruit, a white-robed ministrant at a stove juggled ceaselessly with buckwheat cakes.
For the first day she was distrait and preoccupied.
Zillah was busied with her own thoughts, and Mrs. Hart was preoccupied, and more distraitthan usual.
I am a little anxious about Algernon; he has been strangelydistrait for the last two or three days.
I am a little anxious about Algernon: he has been strangely distrait for this last two or three days; perhaps he is anxious about me: there need be no anxiety.
He appeared enormously interested in everything that she said and did, yet at the same time erratically distrait and engrossed.
He could be distrait and silent, the portrait of distinguished boredom.
The distrait girl used the hatpin lavishly on Hulda.
The consideration of this vital question occupied the whole time of the sermon; made me distrait at dinner,--a large family gathering.
That she should still have her distraitmoments was but natural.
Kitty was very much excited, but she was too gentle and noble a girl, too absolutely unselfish, not to notice that her companion was distrait and anxious.
Whenever Trevor was silent or distrait Kitty would speak of Florence, and his attention was instantly arrested.
Sir Nigel sat silent and distrait at his meal, while Alleyne hearkened to the clattering tongue of the Gascon, and to his talk of the glories of his own estate, his successes in love, and his triumphs in war.
And would rather sit distrait by her oriel than ride gayly to the chase as of old.
I was distrait and absent during the whole time I was with Madame D'Anville.
Glanville seemed paler than usual, and perhaps even sadder; but he was less distrait and abstracted: no sooner did he see, than he approached me, and extended his hand with great cordiality.
Inside the building itself another battle against time was being fought: a battle to hold the attention of a crowd in the background of whose minds lurked the distrait suspense of waiting for a graver climax than that of oratorical peroration.
Boone was late for his classes that day--and so distrait and inattentive that his instructors thought he must be ill.
She apologized, with a slightly distrait smile, for the tardiness of the household.
Nobody could possibly be looking so aloof and distrait as Erb, if there were a murder going on.
In the center of the window, gazing out in a distrait manner over piles of apples and grape-fruit, a white-robed ministrant at a stove juggled ceaselessly with buckwheat cakes.
Here he was evincing the same thing, as soft as love itself, and he a man of years and some affairs and I an irritable, distrait and peevish soul.
He was like a distrait mother with a sick child more than anything else.
He was born for tea fights and winter resorts, to listen with a distrait half-smile to the gushing adulation of the oh-my-dear type of women.
Standing with his hands behind him and his back to the fire, the old sportsman listened, with a queer, distrait expression, to the girl's reading.
