It was necessary to occupy the attention of the people in order to lull their suspicions, and to amuse the prince with the view of diverting his mind from its all-engrossing object.
Even the artist and the poet, though both of them labor to procure us only the pleasure of intuition, can only by most laborious and engrossing study succeed in giving us a delightful recreation by their works.
Aunt Mary did not explain that this coat had been her one engrossing occupation for six weeks, at such times when Honora was out or tucked away safely in bed.
The artist was past taking offence, since Jethro had long ago become for him an engrossing study.
Then she dusted the parlour, including all the bric-a-brac, which made dusting here an engrossing occupation.
Her present thoughts were so delectable and engrossing that Missy did not always hear when she was spoken to.
With a pail of sand, a broken lead-pencil and several bits of twig, the baby had concocted an engrossing game.
The air was simple, but melody itself, and the sentiment had just enough of the engrossing feeling of woman in it, to render it interesting, without in the slightest degree impairing its fitness for the virgin lips from which it issued.
In spite of the engrossing nature of these occupations, he seems never to have been more industriously employed than during this autumn.
To amass wealth is an engrossing pursuit--and now that I have amassed a good deal more than I quite know what to do with, it seems to me a very ignoble one.
And afterwards, long walks by moon or star light, or music at each other's rooms, and that engrossing technical shop talk that never palls on those who talk it.
On a little table at his elbow, he remarked the photograph of a jockey who was just then engrossing public affection.
Feeling a little doubt on some questions, he decided to consult me, supposing I was more familiar with the American way of doing things than he possibly could be; so one day he came to see me on the all-engrossing subject.
It was an engrossing study to observe how skillfully he kept us concealed from view of the enemy, by keeping rolls of the prairie between us.
Perhaps, after all, the deep and engrossing impression he had made was but the natural outcome of the ardent admiration she had felt for those of his paintings that were still in the studio.
Parliament was reopened with another hot debate on the all-engrossing bill.
Sidenote: Mexican adjustment] Foreign affairs for a short while served to distract attention from the all-engrossing subject.
Measures were adopted for erecting a fort at Point Comfort; new-comers were exempted from military service during the first five years after their arrival; engrossing and forestalling were prohibited.
He was preoccupied and bothered, and did not find the child's chatter so engrossing as usual, for he had many things on his mind.
St. Erme' was the one engrossing subject of the young girl's thoughts and discourse, and it was soon plain that not a conversation passed but was reported to him.
But to Theodora herself, whenever she succeeded in engrossing Arthur, it seemed a victory of sisterly affection and sense over beauty and frivolity.
Jim had been so taken up with hisengrossing experience that he rarely went to Beach Street; and the two sets of society were widely apart.
John's courtship had not been so engrossing as Stephen's.
There were two great undertakings engrossingthe public mind.
And in lieu thereof, a selfish system of English politics has started up, calculated to fetter the commerce of America, by engrossing to England the carrying trade of the American produce to the West India islands.
The same hopes of engrossing and profiting by her trade, by not oppressing it too much, would have operated alike with any master, and produced to the colonies the same effects.
The pilchard fishing was for several days so engrossing an occupation that the villagers had no time for fostering their grievance against the Towers.
We are no longer lovers; nor can I call myself a friend to any; since, lost as I am, I have no thought to spare from my own wretched, engrossing self.
He made her warm offers of service; she was too much occupied by more engrossing thoughts, either to accept or reject them; at length he left her, making a promise to repeat his visit the next day.
I watched over my hasty temper, subdued my burning impatience of character, schooled my self-engrossing thoughts, educating myself to the best perfection I might attain, that the fruit of my exertions might be his happiness.
