Mr. Floyd's private personal history had been but one short chapter in his long, full and busy life.
She went to one of the young girls of the neighborhood, and if she found her busy the matter was settled: if idle, she went home again, repeating three times the word abrenuntio, Sicilianized as well as possible.
It had been her wont to busy herself with housekeeping cares from morning until night: our income was small, and she was very busy, for she gave thought to everything and decided wisely upon the smallest matter.
For some days after he left Brackenhill, Percival wasbusy arranging his affairs.
But somehow, I'm so busy looking after His strays in this country that I don't get time to think about my own comfort.
I was learnt to ride by a fine teacher, but I was so busy learnin' 'bout him that I didn't pay much attention to what he said.
Then, for twenty minutes he was busy with hammer and saw, humming to himself, thinking of things quite other than the work at which his hands were busy.
In his stiff and sombre garb, so unsuited to the backwoods trails, the stranger had much the look of one of those itinerant preachers who sometimes busy themselves with the cure of souls in the remoter backwoods settlements.
He was very busy digging under a big whitish stone at the other side of the pool.
The men of the village were busy in the mills, the women in their cottages, the children in their schools; and the stretch of rough shore gave Tug Blackstock the solitude which he loved.
I am afraid I have changed sadly for the worse, since," laughed Grace, still busy at her work.
It was a busy day for all of them: a busier day for none of them than Grace, who noiselessly presided everywhere, and was the cheerful mind of all the preparations.
Some de niggers would slip off sometime and go widout a pass, or maybe marster was busy and dey didn't want to bother him for a pass, so dey go widout one.
I didn't have much time fer playin' when I wus little cause I wuz allus busy waitin' on my mistis er taking care of my little brothers and sisters.
De 'omans up at de big house was busy for a week ahead cookin' peach puffs, 'tater custards, and plenty of cakes sweetened wid brown sugar and syrup.
The world is toobusy to do this; reading must be a relaxation, not a study.
That is now a provincial High Street beside its lordlier compeer; but I remember when Broadway stormed and swarmed withbusy life.
It is a still place, the silence the greater because the city lies so near, and looks so busy with its twinkling lights.
It was a busy time in Edinburgh; men's hands and wits were working.
Kirkwall is a pleasant old town; or was, till war made itbusy and new.
And even The Bruce in his busy days of castle-storming, must have paused in this height, at these bastions, to look over this western world and decide that it was good and should be added to his Scottish world.
Dumfries is larger than it was in the days of Burns, and very busy withal, in factories and railroads.
Nor do they do much sitting, these busy industrious Dunfermliners.
The finest oak trees were cut and brought in; a new and larger sawmill installed; the machine shop was busy day and night in the making of two new lathes, a planer, and several drilling machines.
This was a sufficient hint for him, and busy as he was, he sauntered in that direction.
In the absence of Harry and George, Ralph and Jim had charge of the factory, and were busy each day turning out plows and other agricultural implements.
For some time the Board continued to handle fresh complaints, but it gradually became apparent that the Board, composed of busy men, could not hear all the minor grievances.
Especially in the busy season when the corn has to be harvested or the cotton picked the mother is considered as a toiler first, and she is to have her babies and look after her poor little home and her children as a mere afterthought.
With the opening of their busy season, the New York manufacturers found themselves hard pressed to fill their orders, and they were making efforts to have the work done in other cities, not strike-bound.
She registered as "housekeeper" and a housekeeper she must indeed have been, with all her outside interests a busy housemother.
Always she has beenbusy helping to make some young thing grow, whether the object of her solicitous attention were a wild grass, a baby, or an art.
But in its completeness no one knows the story, and those who know sections of it most intimately are too busy living their own parts in that story, to pause long enough to be its chroniclers.
The men were allbusy trying to get the wreckage alongside.
Towards the end of February, Lady Greendale and Bertha went up to town for a fortnight, intimating to Frank that they would be so busy with important business that his presence there would not be desired.
At 5 o'clock in the afternoon the busy man leaned back in his office chair, put his feet on the desk and mused aloud: "I wonder what kind of bait Harding used.
They were bragging about the busy times there were in Ossining whenever three girls got hold of one of them during the ice cream season.
The members of this unchartered but widely known brotherhood appeared to pass their time on street corners arrayed like the lilies of the conservatory and busy with nail files and penknives.
One morning the busy doctor invited Sue into the hallway with a shaggy, gray eyebrow.
The deck was quite empty, all the crew being busy below, but it was one mass of broken timbers, fallen sails, and all the debris of a half-wrecked vessel.
They all stopped to exchange greetings, and finally wandered over to the open side of the square, where is a fine view of the Tagus, with its varied shipping and busy shores.
When on board the "International" once more, our friends separated for needed rest, and the sisters entered the library, to find their father busy over a wilderness of papers spread out upon the large table in the center.
It also overlooked the forward deck, the watchful lookout on the bridge, the busy sailors at their tasks, and gave glimpses of the steerage at long range.
I have been too busy to see you sooner, though it was hard to keep away.
It's amazing, the way the days slip by when a fellow's busyall the time.
Like the lady who's going to get busy right now, making you well.
She sat for some time with her head leaning upon her grimy hand and stared unseeingly out upon a peach-tree in full bloom, and at a pair of busy robins who had chosen a convenient crotch for their nest.
They were very busy and very happy and pretty prosperous with their three ranches and what gold Ward washed out of the gravel-bank while they were living up on Mill Creek, so that he could prove up on his claim.
I've been busypanning it out all the time I could spare, till the creek froze up.
He spent a busy minute with the rope before he pushed Buck Olney roughly toward a chair.
Buck Olney, he guessed shrewdly, was extremely busyjust now, putting as many miles as possible between himself and that part of Idaho.
Billy Louise rode with an eye upon the climbing sun, and with her mind busy adding up miles and minutes.
Margery looking over to where Happie was busy with Gretta, putting into boxes the last remaining cups for the expressman's taking.
Most of all she was troubled because Happie believed that Gretta was refusing in order to help her friends through that busy winter.
It was a busy day, but she flew to and fro enjoying the rush.
Easter fell on an early date that year, and little Mrs. Stewart was busy preparing for her spring exhibition.
She was busy with her classes and there was scant opportunity.
Everybody seemed to be too busy to drink tea, so it was an easy day, and Happie, Laura and Polly came home early, in good spirits, when Bob called for them.
Instead it was a bright, crisp, ozoneful day and people dropped in in greater numbers than they had come since Christmas, so the girls were as busy as bees.
Only Laura contrived to go, no matter how busy they were in the tea room.
Just as busy as we could be, and look at my fudge!
Little Jacob and little Sol were as quiet as little boys could be expected to be, for they knew that Captain Solomon was very busy at first.
Then he went back to the wharf and watched the sailors, who were busy on the Industry, and he waited for Joe to come, with the sloop, to take him back to Winthrop.
Captain Solomon couldn't take little Sol and little Jacob ashore with him because he thought he would be too busy to look after them.
It was a busy road that day, and hundreds of people, on foot and on mules, in wagons or in carts, went by, tramping quickly and joyously on to Louvain.
He grew to be a young man, and was busy at his books when an old servant came to him and said,-- "Thy mother is no more.
He thought it could not be good or natural for the little lad to be so grave, and in his dumb fashion he tried all he could to keep Nello by him in the sunny fields or in the busy market-place.
I reached Spion Kop, took charge of the office, and was kept so busy that for a week there was no time to have a decent wash.
The little office was crowded with busy clerks when I opened my eyes the next morning.
Up the hill rides a dense body of cavalry; down near the station horsemen dash in and out, to and fro, like busy ants.
Our doctor was too busy with the English officers to attend to me, so I fear I shall lose my arm.
The Frankfort telegraphist was busycalling Heilbron, not knowing that the town had again changed masters.
Her brother and sister, busy all day, and scarcely ever at home, hardly knew what was becoming a sore perplexity to Mr. Audley.
St. Oswald's Buildings was a roomy house, which owed its cheapness to its situation, this being neither in the genteel nor the busy part of Bexley.
And Mamma herself, with one at least of the twins, was busy enough in giving the lesser ones their supper, and disposing of them in bed, so that the discreet alone might remain to the later tea-drinking.
Fulk was in fact no priest, but a busy ruler, governing, enforcing peace, and carrying justice to every corner of the wasted land.
The growth which had been going on had easily escaped the eyes of rulers who were commonly absent from the realm and busy with the affairs of countries beyond the sea.
As his sphere began to widen we see him followed by a train of pupils, busy with literature, writing, harping, painting, designing.
For busy tillers and busy fishers as Englishmen were, they were at heart fighters; and their world was a world of war.
Richard, now his father's heir, remained busy in Aquitaine; and Henry was himself occupied with plans for the recovery of Jerusalem, which had been taken by Saladin in 1187.
Sidenote: Oxford] Vacarius was probably a guest in the court of Archbishop Theobald where Thomas of London and John of Salisbury were already busy with the study of the Civil Law.
For two years William was able to busy himself in castle-building and in measures for holding down the conquered land.
A busy scholar at Paris, a reforming Archdeacon in Wales, the wittiest of Court chaplains, the most troublesome of bishops, Gerald became the gayest and most amusing of all the authors of his time.
He knew that the actual winning back of the Danelaw must be a work of the sword, and through these long years of peace he was busy with the creation of such a force as might match that of the northmen.
I have just returned from a drive with Miss M--- and Hedley to Toronto, and I am surprised at its size and importance, and busy look and general air of English prosperity and neatness.
In the reception room in the William Molson Hall there was a constant succession of visitors, and the various offices wore a busy air.
He appeared to be looking at the two warriors busy with the fire, though more than likely his gaze fell indifferently upon them and the rest, all of whom were in his field of vision.
Many a time had he lain thus, as motionless as if dead, while the wonderful brain was busy with thoughts that stirred the profoundest depths of his nature.
As we must take off as much water as she'll carry, the boys will be busy for some time.
Bethune, who had been busy cooking, brought up an unusually elaborate meal and laid it out on the cabin top with the best glass and crockery he had been able to borrow.
To-morrow I'll be busy with dusty books, in a stifling office that rattles with the thumping of engines.
The glare tired him, but his mind was busy and he was tormented by doubts.
Half an hour later the men were busy cooking breakfast, and soon afterward they were fast asleep; but the night's breeze had made a change in their relations.
Moran and Bethune were desperately busywith the sheet, for safety depended on their speed.
For a few minutes the crew werebusy shaking out the reef, and then as the yacht buried her lee bulwarks Aynsley took the wheel.
As I suppose everybody will be busy to-morrow morning, I may not see you then.
He had some trouble in getting up the ladder, which swung to and fro, and when he reached the deck he saw Moran busy forward, shortening cable.
A young woman was busy at the stove, and after looking up with a smile of welcome she went on with her cooking; but Jimmy felt that she had given him and his comrades a keen scrutiny.
One day when it fell a flat calm for a few hours and Jake was busypatching the sail, I pulled the dory across.
The huge gray custom-house that stood at the foot of Canal Street no longer resounded with the rapid tread of sea-captains or busy merchants.
Many of the ships stranded, and the tugs were constantly busy in towing them off.
For two months workmen had been busy fitting her for the new part she was to play.
On that frowning height the busyhands of Pemberton's soldiers had reared mighty batteries, that commanded the Mississippi for miles up and down stream.
The next moment the professor was busy at the wireless keys, transmitting some message to the far deserts of Arabia.
The next moment, however, they were all busy striking the tents and bringing horses, equipment, and all the camp effects under the shadow of the trees.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "busy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
