Mrs. Ferrall's wits returned nimbly from woolgathering, and she shot a startled, inquiring glance at the girl beside her.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers
His questioner perceiving that he was not likely to get a great deal of change out of such a wily old customer, fell to woolgathering on the enormous dimensions of the water about the globe, suffice it to say that, as a casual glance at the map revealed, it covered fully three fourths of it and he fully realised accordingly what it meant to rule the waves.
"Ulysses"
James Joyce
My wits have been woolgathering.
"The Monk of Hambleton"
Armstrong Livingston