In addition to her school, Miss Pannell was engaged to teach the Rani and some of the court ladies.
While they were thus engaged the two boys came upon an opening in the trees.
The two chums were deeply engaged in the compartment for some time while the crew and officers on deck watched the approach of the target boat.
While she was thus engaged she talked to Whistler.
Just at present Frenchy and Ikey Rosenmeyer were more engaged in getting all the fun possible out of existence.
Peru and Chile were engaged in life and death struggle with each other on land and sea.
Those engaged in illicit amours confessed their sins to unheeding ears.
In the third case on the list, pain had never lasted more than six or twelve hours, and had been very greatly diminished during four years that the young lady had engaged in constant medical study.
In one room an Arabic Professor was engaged at the black-board, instructing a class in studies pursued in that language.
Several had been engaged for three or four years in the study of medicine; some, for a much longer period, had engaged in its practice.
Another class was reading critically a portion of Milton's "Paradise Lost," and yet another was engagedin preparing a French lesson.
Nor have such women been less the helps, fitted, if need be, to act as "breakwaters" to protect the calm of a man engaged in any great work.
The Banjara, however, though a nomad, is a serviceable one, for he is engaged in trade.
The different States have engaged in a series of competitive experiments for the common good, and cities and counties, in their sphere, labor to the same end.
In the great majority of cases it is not overcome, and the result is, that the country is overstocked with men engaged in the practice of professions for which they are inadequately qualified.
The greater portion of the fifty-odd thousand employés of the department do not give it their whole time, many of the country postmasters being engaged in other business.
We must perceive the importance of having two sets of men--the one to teach, the other to investigate; the one engaged in training boys to learn, the other in showing young men how to think.
The other day I read a whole chapter of contemporary history compressed into the appearance of a pair of wheels engaged in their ordinary daily duty in the streets.
Did you ever meet with any refusal to pay from peopleengaged in this class of business, or did they all pay as matter of course?
The need for great secrecy and the importance of getting a long way off the city before opening the box do not seem unreasonable to a man who knows that he is engaged in a more or less fraudulent transaction.
Two bad, disreputed boys were engaged by the detective, Hussey, for witness.
This was only natural, considering that the Committee was engaged in bringing to light all the misdeeds of the Department for the last three or four years.
For the force was engaged all day long in playing a gigantic Confidence Trick upon the citizens.
Despair is a strong word, nor can the citizens be rightly said to despair of the Republic while they are still engaged in making energetic efforts for its salvation.
When I told somewhat of the experiments he had been engaged in, spoke of the missing inventions, they thought I was lying.
Mystified, he nevertheless subjected the Oracle area to a thorough bombing, and it was while engaged in doing so that he and his men observed a startling phenomenon.
He says George Conway is engagedto Harold Knox's sister.
The fellow she was engaged to was killed in the war and she was awfully cut up.
Order coal to be ready for us when we arrive and have a force of men engaged to hustle it on board without loss of time.
I have never engaged very actively in the operation of the ships; my daughter would like me to be more active in it than I have been; but ever since, I have had money in lake vessels.
We see "Bill" as a pony express rider, then near Fort Sumter as Chief of the Scouts, and later engaged in the most dangerous Indian campaigns.
Before and during the time of Roger Bacon the philosophers were divided into two parties, whichengaged in very unseemly and unphilosophic strife.
The guests, however, would not believe that so beautiful a creature could be stupid, and to satisfy them the rich man sent for the girl and engaged her in conversation.
He engaged in business, and, aided by Tip-Top's advice and influence, made a large fortune.
This lady passed for unmarried at the hotel, and they say she isengaged to be married to a gentleman from Canada.
She had grown restless, too, of late, unable or unwilling to remain long in one place, or engaged in one pursuit.
He felt just as he might have felt had he been engaged upon some scheme nefarious.
In another five minutes Edward Henry had engaged a skilled valet, aged twenty-four, name Joseph, with a testimonial of efficiency from Sir Nicholas Winkworth, Bart.
For the Lithuania, having been seriously delayed in Liverpool by men who were most ridiculously striking for the fantastic remuneration of one pound a week, was engaged on the business of making new records.
Stretched at full length on the sofa was Robert Machin, engaged in the perusal of the second edition of that day's Signal.
He assuredly was not going to tell her that he had engaged an unpriced suite at Wilkins's.
It mingled the fresh tingling of water with the odour and flame of autumn blossoms and the variegated colours of shawled women who passed their lives on its margin engaged in the commerce of flowers.
The head contractor grew alarmed at the terrible example he was setting those engaged in the office, and insisted that the adornment should be cut off, which was done.
In 1731 she promulgated a ukase by which all persons not engaged in husbandry retaining their beards were entered in the class of Raskolnicks, in addition to paying the beard tax of fifty roubles, double the amount of all other taxes.
She really belongs to one of our best families, and is engaged to Guilford Blake.
He continued to manage the whole of the fortune, and engaged in various concerns with calm despotism.
The greatest sufferer was the English governess whom her father had engaged for her.
Now and then he spoke of transactions he was engaged in, but not a word of paying them their share.
He was soon engaged in an animated discussion with Calderon as to whether the paving of the streets should be done by contract or managed by a commission.
He engaged a servant, had his breakfast brought in from an eating-house, and dined sometimes at Lhardy's and sometimes with one or another of his numerous friends.
When I accepted you I quite forgot that I was engaged already to Pepe.
The Duke had gone on first with the English engineer, whom he had engaged to report on the improvements needed to make the works pay.
The Roman augurs, who were always busilyengaged in observing birds (and it were to be wished that they had observed them to some better purpose), clearly distinguished corvus and cornix.
They spent a day with the Duke of Northumberland at Sion House, they went to Claremont, and they were so constantly engaged that they had to make the most of their time in order to see at least some of the sights of London.
In writing, however, he had an ominous vision of the morrow to the day; and, both for her sake and his own, he was not unrejoiced to hear that she was engaged day and night in nursing her husband.
Beauchamp had not the faculty of reading inside men, or he would have apprehended that his uncle was engaged in silently heaping aggravations to shoot forth one fine day a thundering and astonishing counterstroke.
When he had finished his work he was about to descend, but he did not do so, having observed two men at some little distance off, standing at the foot of another lofty palm, engaged in earnest conversation.
The lady is not a member of our local chapter, and I have failed yet to hear of her being engaged in any activity for the Red Cross.
If a conspiracy had been discovered for the robbing of the Red Cross Supply Department, were not Mrs. Mantel and Legrand and Jose engaged in it?
She confided to Ruth that, before she had married and "dear Herny" had died, she had been engaged in the offices of one of the largest cotton brokerage houses in New Orleans.
She was here to attend to the ward while the regular night nurse was engaged elsewhere.
Her work in the hospital and supply room engaged so much of her time that for the first few weeks Ruth scarcely found opportunity to exercise properly.
Whether Rose Mantel and her two friends were actually working for the enemy or not, Ruth was quite sure they were not whole-heartedly engaged in efforts for the Red Cross, or for France.
Your virtuoso looks with artistical delight on the figure of some nymph painted on an Etruscan vase, engaged in pouring out the juice of the grape from her classic urn.
Hum," growled the squire, who was now once more engaged in rubbing himself.
Netting, which divides itself under two headings, netting proper, or plain netting and net embroidery, has never yet gone out of fashion and places are still to be found where the entire population is engaged in this industry.
He is to be my brother, for I am engaged to Ken Willoughby.
Dan engaged a hack and after assisting his sister in, he sat beside her.
Evidently Lord St. Ulmer had been engaged in burning labels, unused labels, that had been prepared for boxes containing a patent blacking for boots, shoes, and leather goods generally.
This man Paul had been valet to the real Lord St. Ulmer, probably engaged in Paris, and went with him to the Argentine.
We are engaged together upon a very serious matter to-night.
They were engaged at seventeen, a regular idyllic love match, old chap.
But neither the General nor any of the ladies was visible, all, as he correctly surmised, being engaged in the matter of dressing for dinner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "engaged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
