Tom was engrossed by the concerns of his theatre, and saw nothing that did not immediately relate to it.
Naida, leaning a little forward, became once moreengrossed in the play.
She appeared for a few moments to be engrossed in the tennis.
Every one seemed to be cheerful but a little engrossed in the concrete act of living.
He was engrossed in watching the final struggle between Napoleon and the allies.
I recollect that I was so engrossed by admiration of the elegance of his appearance, and the affability of his address, that I omitted expressing my thanks.
Later, when the two sages were obliviously engrossed in a heated battle as to whether Berlioz or Beethoven had exposited in their compositions the deeper intellect, Graham managed his escape.
Lord Desborough was not yet down the ladder, and knew nothing of thy peril, being engrossed in tender care for his wife.
Martha was so kind and so still; and her father was so kind and so still, engrossed in his papers or books, often sitting by himself in his own study.
Mr. Ryder was now profoundly silent on the questions which had engrossed our attention, leaving an impression on my mind that his sister had no sympathy with his spiritual anxieties and depression.
But she was too much engrossed by the assiduous attention, of Ribald, to take any particular notice of him.
Too much engrossed by each other to heed whither they were going, they wandered on ;--Cicely detailing all the persecution she had experienced from Nightgall, and her lover breathing vengeance against him.
The utmost circumspection consequently became necessary, and each one was too much engrossed with his own thoughts to feel a disposition to utter more than was called for by the exigencies of the case.
The ladies, however, were not so much engrossed with rifle-shooting as to neglect the calash.
So engrossed had he been with his mission that it had never occurred to him that the love-lorn pitcher might have taken it into his head to follow the girl as well in the hope of putting in a word for himself.
At the other table, the girl, unconscious of the drama which was about to enter her life, was engrossed in conversation with the stout man.
The woman was engrossedwith the bill of fare, but the child's attention seemed riveted upon the Sausage Chappie.
So engrossed had he been in his appeal that he had not observed the presence of the pie-eating champion, between whom and himself a large potted plant intervened.
The man who walked alone along the shore was too deeply engrossed in thought to take much note of his surroundings, although more than once he turned his eyes towards the darkness of the cave.
He was plainly engrossed in the pleasant pastime of conversing with her.
All were too deeply engrossed with the matter in hand.
If Eva were not so engrossed with her single idea, the gleam in Sachs's eye, the fire in his tone, would interpret to her this brutal-sounding speech.
But Lohengrin had not been too far, nor too engrossed in going, to hear her words.
Several times in the course of the cotillion Russell's hand clasped her, but even then he avoided looking at her, and seemed engrossed in conversation with his gay partner.
Miss Margaret sat stiff and icy, looking quite insulted, while her niece was too much engrossed by other reflections to notice her.
The old nobleman, on the other hand, was engrossed by the play, and cursed under his breath, or chuckled and grinned as the luck swayed one way or the other.
But they and their old relative were far too engrossed with their own affairs to give a thought to the Puritan seaman.
She was beautiful, and I had already engrossed the sultan's attentions for more than two years.
Napoleon was entirely engrossed with his vast projects of ambition.
His mind was everengrossed with the magnificent plans he was forming and the deeds he was achieving.
Napoleon, entirely engrossed by those majestic plans he was ever conceiving and executing, usually breakfasted alone in his cabinet, very hastily, not allowing more than seven or eight minutes to be occupied by the meal.
Not unfrequently, when much engrossed with business, he would postpone the hour until nine, and even ten o'clock.
In the legislative documents for 1835 he figures as a member of the standing committee on engrossed bills.
His draft was accepted almost without amendment by the Convention, and, after it had been engrossed on parchment, was signed by the sixty-two members present.
The production and sale of the staple engrossed no less of the people's thought than of their work.
He had also engrossed too large a share of the commerce to himself.
When the attention is engrossedby such a multitude of new objects, time passes rapidly away.
Edouard, with a full heart and an empty purse, went to his room, engrossed by the pretty woman with whom he had played ecarte, and without a thought for his own wife, who had long been waiting for him in vain.
And this tradesman, whom people believe to be engrossed by his business,--what does he do in this den of iniquity?
She realized that it was not to see her that he had come home; but her heart made excuses for him; she believed him to be entirely engrossed by business.
Engrossed by his new passion for Madame de Geran, Edouard betook himself to the lovely widow's abode, neglecting for her his wife, his child and his home.
Such had Edouard become; who could recognize now the young man who, engrossed by his good fortune and his love, proudly led his charming bride to the altar?
Engrossed by that happiness, Adeline was less thoughtless, less vivacious.
But they all seemed wholly engrossed by the green cloth, and paid no attention to him.
So Adeline and Jacques concealed from each other the thoughts that engrossed them, because each of them feared to distress the other by renewing the memory of his or her grief.
They are engrossed with the serious cares of life, or busy with its various occupations.
A merchant, engrossed all day in his business, comes home to his house at dinner-time, and meets his boy of fifteen on the steps returning from his school.
This object recalled all the energies of Eliza, andengrossed all my solicitude.
His countenance betokened a mind engrossed by a single purpose, in some degree foreign to the scene before him.
When her attention was engrossed by Welbeck, her eyes were frequently vagrant or downcast; her cheeks contracted a deeper hue; and her breathing was almost prolonged into a sigh.
The thoughts which engrossed my mind related to Welbeck.
Every man was too much engrossed by his own desperate fight with the misery around him.
Addison had called at the post-office, and the Old Squire at once became engrossed in the papers, containing further news of President Johnson's quarrel with Congress.
Nothing more was said that morning about our pictures, however, for both the Old Squire and Addison were engrossed in the late disturbing news concerning President Johnson.
