He refers, for proof of his statements, mostly to English documents, and does not try to preoccupy your mind.

Without stirring, without shifting her horizontal, preoccupied gaze from the wall, she muttered peevishly: "What's that you were saying about going to have a child?" Startled, Hilda moved back a little from the bed.

It is their own needs, which are also the vital needs of society, that preoccupy their thoughts; and it is real goods that direct and inspire their genuine idealism.

Were there no moral code, were there no social system, nor the consequent inculcated conscience to be responsible to, there would be no such disguising symptom as the disease which preoccupies the consciousness.

" So Marian went off by herself and played on the piano, and read, and had various kinds of good times, scrupulously keeping out of the way of her busy and preoccupied cousin.

My picture, as I have said, was a fairly executed steel engraving, taken from some one of the thousands of "Tokens," or "Keepsakes," or "Amulets," or "Gems," or such like harmless giftbooks, with which youths of tender sentiment remind preoccupied damsels of their careful penchants.

You go out, a sort of zooour party included four or five Americans, a Greek, an Italian, a diminutive Spaniard, and a tall, preoccupied Swedeunder the direction of some hapless officer of the General Staff.

There were types that dressed neatly and quietly and went upon their business with intent and preoccupied faces.

Believing Dick Stanmore the great obstacle in his way, he watched that preoccupied gentleman as a cat watches a mouse.

In fine, Sylvain became the kind, but preoccupied husband, Mariana, the solitary and wretched wife.

Our intention is not to preoccupy judgment by praise or censure, but to gratify curiosity by early intelligence, and to tell rather what our authors have attempted, than what they have performed.

The child was growing more and more interestingthrowing out countless tendrils of feeling and perception that delighted Ralph but preoccupied the watchful Laura.

An affectionate woman runs a great risk in marrying an absorbed and preoccupied man of genius, even if his character be reproachless.

The dilatoriness of Hannibal was in proportion to the expedition which the consul used in every thing he did in order to preoccupy Nola.

Now, just toward the 20th of February, the oscillations of the barometrical column began to preoccupy the young novice, who noted them several times a day with much care.

Between the busy and preoccupied owning and employing class on the one hand, and the distressed, uneasy masses on the other, intervenes the professional politician, not as a mediator, but as an obstacle, who must be propitiated before any dealings are possible.

For this reason he did not feel the death of his father very greatly; besides, much greater misfortunes soon occurred to preoccupy the young seminarist.

It must have been agreeable for Nina, no doubt, if not improving, to listen to Dick's light and rather trivial conversation which relieved the monotony of her task, and formed a cheerful addition to the short, jerking, preoccupied sentences of the artist, enunciated obviously at random, and very often with a brush in his mouth.

If fear of pain thus preoccupied the soul, martyrs would not have sown the Church, nor would births continue.

You go out, a sort of zooour party included four or five Americans, a Greek, an Italian, a diminutive Spaniard, and a tall, preoccupied Swedeunder the direction of some hapless officer of the General Staff.

We should not preoccupy the audience with our own personality.

Unfortunately for mefor I greatly valued the privilege of explaining the institutions of my country to the undergraduates of these great Universitiesmy political duties made it impossible for me to visit England prior to June 1, about which time the Supreme Court of the United States, in which my official duties largely preoccupy my time, adjourns for the summer.

" "Well," said he, lifting up his coat and looking carefully behind him as he sat down on the settle, lest a stray kitten or chicken should preoccupy the bench, "you see I was down to Orrin's abaout a week back, and he hed a litter o' pigs,eleven on 'em.

" This I am waiting, and We must see, preoccupied Louis Bonaparte.