Then he picked it up again like he had spent the entire time chasing an elusive thought.

McKie rubbed his chin, trying to catch an elusive thought.

Since the winged woman's last visitation, he found himself full of elusive thoughts and speculations.

She stopped, and seemed to be grasping at an elusive thought.

He circled his hand in the air, trying to catch hold of an elusive thought.

For a moment Mikhail groped for the elusive thought.

Kola frowned, trying to grasp an elusive thought hovering in his mind.

It tied up with the elusive thought he had had moments before.

It reminded me of something, an elusive thought that came and slipped away.

He came awake suddenly, already up on one elbow, groping for some elusive thought.