"Woolgathering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Your wits are gone a woolgathering; saying to an absent man, one in a reverie, or ...
— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.
... reason about a book, they just like it or dislike it intensely, and after all that is the conclusion of the whole matter. I am very sure that "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Black Cat" will give this woolgathering lad of yours more pleasure ...
— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather
... wounded faith and anger. Clarissa was superb and scornful. She ordered a full-length portrait, and fixed the hour for the sitting within the week. Dulcie set off alone with Master Will Locke—Dulcie, who knew no more of Redwater than he should have done, if his wits had not been woolgathering—to find the meadow which was beginning to purple over with ...
— Girlhood and Womanhood - The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes • Sarah Tytler |
