But men preoccupied with their own concerns do not keep anxious watch, and our precautions were needless.

Though preoccupied in mind, he gathered that both the old housekeeper and Jerry were surprised and dismayed to see him ready to leave.

" But Graham, who was preoccupied about some school prize, had to be told twice before the news took proper hold of his attention.

He took long walks on the ramparts; was gloomy, restless, and preoccupied at home.

He had noticed that she had been rather preoccupied during dinner, an unusual mood for so lively a girl, and now he could not help watching the pair in the distance, she talking with an earnest, troubled expression, and he listening to her story in grave wonderment, now and again interposing a few words.

He walked dreamily, undecidedly, preoccupied like a man battling with an idea or with a memory.

It was the special merit of these artists to elevate the ideal of form and to seek after sublimity, without departing from the path of conscientious labour, in an age preoccupied on the one hand with technicality and naturalism, on the other with decorative prettiness and pietism.