It must be confessed that the Rover boys were rather preoccupied in mind during supper that evening.
Of course, Andy and Randy had had some fun, especially with fireworks in the evening, but otherwise the young folks had been too preoccupied with their arrangements for getting away to pay special attention to the national holiday.
He seemed to have a preoccupied air that somehow did not fit the amiableness of his face.
Presently with preoccupied and gloomy mien, he left her alone.
Meanwhile, Jack had been absent a great deal in Newry, and had returned always with a deeply thoughtful expression, and moved about in the preoccupied manner of one having some project weighing heavily upon his mind.
Then he went into his den for a smoke, and so preoccupied was he for a few moments that he did not notice a large, flat piece of pasteboard lying on the table, which had evidently arrived by the evening post.
Mr. Durant was in the office with a pile of papers before him as usual; he appeared to be very preoccupied and he was looking rather severe.
There has been no time in the first forty years when the undergraduates were not earnestly and genuinely preoccupied with religious questions and religious living.
All know how the ages that followed were too preoccupied to think of writings its epitaph.
If she had not been preoccupied with the picture rising in her mind she would have felt fear, for the ultimate meaning of those women she had always suspected to be danger.
The glance he shot backwards into the room was so preoccupied that it held no more intimate message for Ellen than for Poppy.
Of course he would take the opportunity of all being preoccupied to escape, and did; and David faced Goliath in the gateway.
Just where you started," he assented, still in the same preoccupied voice.
She will get over being sixteen, of course," said Francis, still in the preoccupied voice.
They gave the girl spoonfuls of rosemary honey, so that the wicked creature inside should start to eat it gluttonously, and when he was most preoccupied in his joyous meal, whiz!
Unconsciously to himself and all around, he was singing his love; and even Christine, though much preoccupied with her part, wondered at the effect upon herself, and recognized the deep impression made upon the audience.
At the mission school, Susie Winthrop noticed with regret that the lesson was often given in a listless, preoccupied manner; and even the little boys themselves missed something in the teacher once so interesting and animated.
Thank you, my lord, and Master Michael,' she uttered, but she was evidently preoccupied with what she had to tell Miss Morton.
So they wandered out into the pinewoods, preoccupied and silent, gazing along the path, as if that would hasten the doctor.
And if she had not been too preoccupied to let the meeting be in the least awkward, Harry, gaily chattering from the chimney-piece, would have been enough to prevent it anyway.
She had rather less to say to him than was customary during rehearsals, but Harry was so busy and preoccupied he did not notice that.
Whatever the cause, Tom seemed thoughtful andpreoccupied for the rest of the journey.
There was something very funny about his calm, preoccupied demeanor amid that clamoring throng.
He did not attempt to touch or read them, but sat looking moodily at his blotting-pad, preoccupied and absent.
She was too preoccupied to worry her head as to the cause.
Two days after parting in a lone island from the girl he had so disinterestedly loved he met in Piccadilly his friend Somers, wonderfully spruced up, and hastening along with a preoccupied face.
He missed this great opportunity; partly because he was preoccupied with the reorganization of France, and partly because Sully, his minister, had no enthusiasm for colonial ventures.
To Lescarbot, Champlain may well have seemed deficient in literary attainments, and sopreoccupied with the concerns of geography as to be an uncongenial companion.
The Jesuits were missionaries andpreoccupied with the conversion of the savages.
Champlain was a geographer andpreoccupied with exploration.
Instead, he was called on to withstand the cabals of self-seeking traders who shirked their obligations, and to endure the apathy of a government which was preoccupied with palace intrigues.
On the other hand, the Jesuits were so preoccupied with the progress of the mission that they tended to view the life of the savages too exclusively from one angle.
I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.
However, the man is fortunately rather deaf, and he was entirely preoccupied in that which he was doing.
Having looked up his train, he turned to shake hands with me, while the abstracted and preoccupied expression in his face grew a trifle more human, as if he had found what he wanted.
The past had no place in her preoccupied mind; her bright eyes were full of eager anticipation of a substantial future.
The faint glow of conquest came to her cold cheek; the slight stirrings of pride moved her preoccupied heart.
About half way to the hacienda his horse started at several dead bodies lying across the road, riddled with wounds; but he was toopreoccupied by his own thoughts to pay much attention to the ominous reencounter.
I feared something of the sort," said Don Pedro sighing; "Don Fernando was so preoccupiedlast night.
Jim watched him, darkly preoccupied with other things, including the whereabouts of Mr. Pawling.
She laid the unopened rosebud on Palla's knees; her preoccupied gaze wandered around that silent, sunlit place.
And that preoccupied her; and she lent only an inattentive ear to the animated monologue of the man beside her.
The other matter which fitfully preoccupied him was his unpleasant and unintentional interview with Sondheim.
They are moving, always in motion, preoccupied by their hellish designs.
Throughout the desultory conversation he had been profoundly concerned with his own disturbing affairs, and now was preoccupied with a dialogue taking place (in his mind) between himself and Miss Lucy Morgan.
His uncle sighed profoundly, picked up his tie and, preoccupied with despondency, twisted the strip of white lawn till it became unwearable.
But the girl approaching him was unaware of his trepidation, being perhaps somewhat preoccupied with her own.
Nevertheless, he was stubbornly preoccupied with the necessity of obtaining some money before he went home, and once again he told over on his fingers the acquaintances he might conceivably call on in this emergency.
My old nurse," Claire mechanically repeated, preoccupied with her own painful meditations.
Only the leader of the evangelical party, I thought, was a little preoccupied until five minutes had elapsed and the weather was still calm.
But in fact it is the mind of Europe that has shrunk, being, as we have seen, wholly preoccupied with a busy spring-cleaning to get rid of its superstitions before readjusting itself to the new conception of Evolution.
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