Word: distractedness
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A willing and an honest Englishman, one Mr. Crick, has been driven nearly distracted during the past six months, trying to serve as postmaster in the Welsh village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Half distracted by these thoughts Signora Anna prayed, fervently, wildly, to the Mother of God. Sometimes such prayers are efficacious. Last week Signora Anna's midwife was hastily called in a second time, detected an infant she had not previously noticed, assisted the belated bambino into the world, and...
Dunster found Harvard a poor secondary school, without head, or teacher, or corporate existence. Its handful of students were "dispersed in the town and miserably distracted in their times of concourse", the College building not half completed, and the legacy of John Harvard almost exhausted. Dunster left Harvard small indeed...
She distracted one's attention from the useless things she said.
There Menelaus woke, distracted still. Helen was pure, but just a shadow Helen. The real one he had killed, just as he killed Paris, just as he would kill anyone who dared rest his eyes on her. Death, Helen decided, was better than a half-mad Menelaus who thought her...