Rivet

Usage examples of engross.

A magnificent, an unforeseen destiny now engrossed him, a destiny owed not wholly to his own merit nor to Angevin contrivance, but also to some happy conjunction of the planets.

Bragadin Asks the Hand of That Young Person for Me--Her Father Refuses, and Sends Her to a Convent--De la Haye--I Lose All my Money at the Faso-table--My Partnership with Croce Replenishes My Purse--Various Incidents The happiness derived from my love had prevented me from attaching any importance to my losses, and being entirely engrossed with the thought of my sweetheart my mind did not seem to care for whatever did not relate to her.

Good things to engross, Near Banbury cross Where Tommy shall go on the nag, He makes no mistake, Buy a Banbury Cake, Books, Pictures, and Banbury Shag.

The inhabitants of Westminster had long laboured under the want of a fish-market, and complained that the price of this species of provision was kept up at an exorbitant rate by the fraudulent combination of a few dealers, who engrossed the whole market at Billingsgate, and destroyed great quantities of fish, in order to enhance the value of those that remained.

Nate and Seth huddled together, both engrossed in the bobwhite quail that Seth painstakingly carved.

He was buried in a bookit was one of those evangelical novels theorizing that God lets some people into heaven but leaves others behindand he seemed fairly engrossed in it, perhaps wondering if he would be in the former group or the latter.

Siva was deeply engrossed in his meditation and was determined to remain engrossed thus for the duration of all the remaining Days of Brahma, until the end of existence itself.

Hal and Old Man sat still, engrossed in the developing situation as shown on the screens of the four scopes that now sat in front of them since Calas had rejoined them.

The dying Caledon was utterly engrossed in writing a will, absentmindedly batting blowflies away from his face and apparently unperturbed by the mass of maggots that squirmed in the cyanosed flesh of what had once been his legs.

His mind was not pre-occupied and engrossed with political contests or with affairs of state.

Faithful gives an engrossing picture of the heroic men and dogs involved in the battle to recapture the island of Guam during WWII.

Selik at her other side, but he was engrossed in the daughter of a Saxon ealdorman beside him.

Engrossed in his inner effort, he trekked after Gar and Fabiana onto the Montlake Bridge.

Every Borrible there must have had at least one eye on Flinthead, every Borrible that is except Bingo and Adolf who had been deeply engrossed in cheering each other with tales of what they were going to do to the Wendles when they got half a chance.

She had hardly been thinking of the young ranger these last weeks, too engrossed was she in setting up her own kingdom and, of late, in rousing Agradeleous and plotting her moves in favor of Wadon.