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He was a sort of an absent-minded man.
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Similarly an absent-minded man is said to be ''abstracted,'' as paying no attention to the matter in hand.
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You're an absent-minded man, I suppose?
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The New Yorker, January 9, 1932 P. 9 Anecdote about an absent-minded man's remark.
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Another misunderstood answer was that of the absent-minded man who entered a hansom and began to read a paper.
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He ought to be good, for his uncle before him was a fine preacher, though a very absent-minded man.
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Sometimes, when large touring parties came into port, he confused his masks, being by habit rather an absent-minded man.
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Something of the sensations that such an absent-minded man must feel I really felt the other day; and very pleasant sensations they were.
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The best generals I have known were, on the contrary, stupid or absent-minded men.
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My lord prolonged the sibilation of his 'Yes,' in the way of absent- minded men.