The old Tohunga, as my New Zealand flock used to call their priest, now lifted his eyes to heaven with an air of devotion, and remained for some moments like one absorbed in prayer or meditation.
Meanwhile, the bishop and myself being entirelyabsorbed in attendance on the sick, the crew of the William Wilberforce, I deeply regret to say, escaped from all restraint, and forgot what was due to themselves and their profession.
The game fettered his attention, and kept him absorbed in it, night after night, till morning.
As if it mattered that the author absorbed into himself germs from without him!
He did so, and in a moment the big ape came ambling along the deck towards Aaron and Elisheba, who were sitting on the top of a hatch and absorbed in gnawing some turkey bones.
CS] It might be expected that among a people so deeply absorbed in material pursuits, misers would abound; but it is not so.
Then they go on to the price of cotton and coffee, the arrivals of flour, lumber, and tobacco, and become absorbed in calculations the rest of the day.
While he wasabsorbed in watching, the colonel moved in the other direction, and Dick stood alone behind a bush.
Four years crowded with battles, great and small, sieges and marches absorbedtheir whole attention.
The looser the substance to be absorbed the more painless will be the process of absorption.
It is not surprising that Morton was too deeply absorbed to notice the threatening intrusion.
Possibly her attention is so deeply absorbed by the fascinations of Worth's millinery that she has no time to spare for such trivial matters as elocution and orthoepy.
All of which proves that it is in vain for man to attempt to battle the inexorable law of nature, which has decreed that a superior race shall never be destroyed or absorbed by an inferior.
Lord George was not only present but apparently absorbed in the sport, and his horses were very successful.
He soon is absorbed in the works of such writers as Strauss and Renan; and little by little their spirit becomes his own.
It was absorbedby the Oregon Steam Navigation Company.
Stupendous crags, often streaked with snow, lose themselves in the scud of the ocean which is almost constantly flying eastward to be absorbed in the more fervid sunshine of up-river.
Accordingly, they absorbed the rights of the portage owners, built a railroad from Celilo to The Dalles on the Oregon side, and one around the Cascades on the Washington side.
I took that once formidable journey alone, my husband being absorbed in the pursuit of partridges, which was happiness enough for him.
Even in Italy the restless republics, ever jealous of their independence, were absorbed into larger territories and placed under a common supremacy.
But among the intent listeners was David, and as the Head paused and repeated “alien corn,” he rolled over on to his back, absorbed and lost.
Up till that moment the possibility had literally not entered David’s head: he had been entirely absorbed in the prospect of losing it for them.
But nobody paid the least attention to him, or gave him a single word of encouragement, or cared at all for his panic-stricken condition, because everybody was utterly absorbed in what was going on at the wickets.
Then by degrees he became absorbed in it, and all the time was slightly ashamed at being able to be interested in a mere Greek chorus, when his name lay on the table as heading the list of promotions into the twenty-two.
The Trinity scholar had certainly got absorbed in the captain of the eleven.
In the matter of preparation for war, one clear idea should be absorbed first by every one who, recognizing that war is still a possibility, desires to see his country ready.
It can be but an imperfect palliative, and can be absorbed effectually by the main body only in small proportions.
The fire people are the ambitious conquerors and rulers of the world, who by the strength and attractive warmth of their own natures force others to bend to them and become absorbed in their projects.
But he went on without looking at her, and apparently deeply absorbed in getting an obstinate bit of ash out of the pipe bowl.
In the state of Oklahoma, which has absorbed the old "Indian Territory," the results of race-amalgamation are apparent in the large number of mixed bloods of all shades.
Hastings had the reputation of bearing hard upon the zamindars, and was absorbed in other critical affairs of state or of war.
My mind was absorbed in secret pleasure, at the idea of that acute misery which Emily would suffer if I fell by the hand of Talbot.
She now sat on the ground, her infant sleeping in her lap, and herself apparently absorbed in melancholy.
Here we saw one of the sisters of charity, sitting in black vestments, in a solitary dusky nook, as though absorbed in holy meditation.
Star took the doll in her arms with delighted awe, and seemed for a few moments absorbed in her new treasure.
And once more he realized how Nancy in her dove-like innocence had absorbed and submerged the existence of those around her.
At first the struggle for bare existence must have absorbedin a large measure the energies of all, and not until their foothold was secure could much time have been available for the cultivation of the gentler pursuits.
It was small wonder that when alone, or absorbed in thought, the face should take on deep lines, the eyes appear as if seeing something beyond the vision of other men, and the shoulders stoop, as though they too were bearing a weight.
Then they became completely absorbed in what he was saying.
I was so absorbed by my passion, that I could not remember how I had managed to live without money; I only knew that the four hundred and fifty francs due to me would pay my debts.
Perhaps the thought of Infinity dwells in these precipices, perhaps they contain some colossal flattery for the soul of man; for is he not, then, wholly absorbed in himself?
Yet a few still remained motionless and heedless of the music, artlesslyabsorbed in the delight of watching Raphael's neighbor.
Quite absorbed by his idea, Planchette took an empty flower-pot, with a hole in the bottom, and put it on the surface of the dial, then he went to look for a little clay in a corner of the garden.
He saw himself, not without astonishment, an absent gloomy figure in the midst of these lively folk, always musing over his own fate, always absorbed by his own sufferings, seemingly impatient of the most harmless chat.
We all leaned forward in absorbed interest; for this was news.
She suddenly became absorbed in the contemplation of the paints on her palette, at which she made little thrusts with a brush; and at last she queried, doubtfully, "How?
You certainly did not," said Alice; and then I noticed the absorbed look myself.
You can Identify the Owners by that Absorbed Expression!
