stracted

Half-way up the path to the house she met a tall, slender negro girl, who exclaimed, "Hi, Miss Lou, ole miss des gettin '' stracted 'bout you, en mars'r sez ef you ain 'at supper in five minits he's gwine down to Aun' Jinkey en know what she mean, meckin 'sech' sturbence in de fambly."

Miss Lou Edward Payson Roe 1863

"I spec she gwine git married some day," Jimpson said hopefully, "all de boys been plumb 'stracted 'bout dat chile since she wuz a little girl.

A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906

They's sort of 'stracted 'bout d'serters, and I can swear to it. "

Two Little Confederates Thomas Nelson Page 1887

Her gaze was ab - stracted, her face smooth, without expression.

Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

Now because these constants function in discourse in a manner that is not compara - ble with the way indicative or descriptive expressions function, it is hardly surprising that there is nothing available empirically from which they can be ab - stracted or upon which attention may be concentrated.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

Future Metaphysics (para. 20), empirical concepts would not be possible unless a pure concept were added to the particular concept which has been ab - stracted from intuition.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

Now because these constants function in discourse in a manner that is not compara - ble with the way indicative or descriptive expressions function, it is hardly surprising that there is nothing available empirically from which they can be ab - stracted or upon which attention may be concentrated.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

Thomas Vokins by means of a cane an 'there an' then took, removed, appre'ended or ab-stracted ewidence in the shape o 'a piece o' paper as 'ad fell from right' and o 'said corpse.

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

Eben now when I gits er glimpse -- jist a peep into de palis of de King, it farly runs me ravin '' stracted.

John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908

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Shawn of Skarrow James Tandy Ellis 1905