Until you realize that it's impossible-" Placing her elbows on the table, she slid her ruby ring up and down her finger abstractedly.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
"Ah, perhaps she has," said Wayne abstractedly, as if the idea had been presented to him for the first time.
"A Vanished Hand"
Sarah Doudney
He stood up and gazed abstractedly in the direction of the garden.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer