“Come, Doctor, I beg your pardon, but your wits are fairly gone a wool-gathering; it was I invited you to dinner, up at the inn yonder, and not you me.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Skipping thus lightly over a matter of such consequence, the thoughts of the hare-brained boy went a wool-gathering after more agreeable topics. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Manichaeos, his wits were a wool-gathering, as they say, and his head busied about other matters, when he perceived his error, he was much [1994] abashed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Tibullus, stulti praetereunt dies, their wits are a wool-gathering. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For a minute, perhaps, my mind was wool-gathering. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
I cried incredulously, for my wits were still wool-gathering. ❋ Unknown (2005)
You realize, of course, I'm engaging in a bit of wool-gathering sport. ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)
Were you to shepherd too long your wits would certainly go wool-gathering, even if you were not tempted to bleat. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Mr Robarts had come round to the generally accepted idea that Mr Crawley had obtained possession of the cheque illegally — acquitting his friend in his own mind of theft, simply by supposing that he was wool-gathering when the cheque came in his way. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Gerasimovitch, turning to Nekhludoff, “and your thoughts must have been wool-gathering to let the thing pass.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
It was like a vision, and it held me spell-bound, as I stood shivering on the rocks with the white mist round my knees until into my wool-gathering mind came the memory of those anything but sublime men of mine; and I turned and scuttled off along the rocks like an agitated ant left alone in a dead Universe. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In this way the wits of the ragged brood who inhabit the Alhambra have been set wool-gathering, until there is not a hall, nor tower, nor vault, of the old fortress, that has not been made the scene of some marvellous tradition. ❋ Unknown (2002)
And to his own light-headed amazement he was not tongue-tied or wool-gathering. ❋ Cherryh, C. J. (1992)
Finally, I abandoned my work, afraid that I might accidentally damage someone while wool-gathering. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (1992)
He had the beginnings of an idea, a way to beat the formidable commander His wool-gathering vanished with the first swing Thouriss made with his great sword. ❋ Thompson, Paul B. (1990)
Whether it was the tea he had drunk during the night, some trick of his mind, or all the time he had spent wool-gathering, or musing when he should have been "performing his morning ablutions," he didn't know. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)
Damn! Instantly Mamud regretted his wool-gathering thoughts. ❋ Sadler, Barry (1980)
Not just wool-gathering, romantic thoughts about how exciting it might be if there were such a place, but trying to weigh the factors that would make such a situation true or false, and I am forced to tell you that I think it might be possible. ❋ Simak, Clifford D., 1904- (1977)
