He engrosses the community's pecuniary initiative and proficiency.
Tis just that God should not be dear Where self engrosses all the thought, And groans and murmurs make it clear, Whatever else is loved, the Lord is not.
Milton must be forwarded, and is at present hardly begun; and I have beside a numerous correspondence, which engrosses more of my time than I can at present well afford to it.
Is't the grand harangue You mean to make, that thus engrosses you?
Each cardinal virtue engrossesand engages all his soul.
Monsieur de Calonne engrosses all the time which he can spare from Newmarket.
Heaven, and I to go into companies where, when the conversation upon French Politics is at a stand, it engrosses the chief of what we have to say.
That man may be called impertinent, who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.
But it is always the work of man, not the beauty of nature, thatengrosses you.
If this object is a system of philosophy, the traveller only sees what he desires to see; if it is self-interest, it engrosses the whole attention of those concerned.
The passion which engrosses him will no longer permit him to devote himself as in former days to discussions of pure reason; this very passion must be called to our aid if his attention is to be given to my teaching.
But the event which now mostly engrosses the public attention, and almost exclusively claims ours, is the fatal defeat of St. Clair's army.
As to public news, the subject which engrosses almost the whole attention of every one is the equality of votes between Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Burr.
Gertrude made no reply, and Miss Arnold said, "I suppose his bride engrosses all his attention.
Do you not see how entirely she engrosses the attention of an important personage?
And by their authority, he explains, proves, and disposes of whatever engages his attention and engrosses his powers as a reasonable and reasoning creature.
Realism he despised: The mighty Zolaistic Movement now Engrosses us--a miasmatic breath Blown from the slums.
Such an unremitted anxiety and perpetual application asengrosses our whole time and thoughts, are forbidden.
Such an unremitted anxiety, or such a perpetual application, as engrosses all our time and thoughts, is forbidden.
All the way home Cyril's mind is full of curious thought, though one topic alone engrosses it.
It engrosses the left bank of the Piscataqua from the great bridge at Portsmouth to the sea.
The island was divided into two townships--Portsmouth, which now engrosses its upper half, and Newport.
It arouses, concentrates, engrosses all our emotions, even to the most subtle and concealed.
Formerly he made all my delight and occupation; now he is even dearer to me than ever; but he no longer engrosses all my thoughts.
What engrossesour attention is the whole personality of Hamlet in his conflict, not with an opposing spiritual power, but with circumstances and, still more, with difficulties in his own nature.
These things, Fausta, in answer to the questions at the close of your letter, which betray just such an interest in the subject which engrosses me, as it gives me pleasure to witness.
Giese was a forerunner, but his ideas could not triumph so long as there were no means of observing conduction in simple circumstances.
I walk twenty miles full of ardour, and with a motive that engrosses my soul, and I come in as fresh and as alert as when I began my journey.
When one group is present and engrosses the interest, all the ideas connected with other groups may be excluded from the mental field.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engrosses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
