All 12 Uses of
engrossed
in
War and Peace
- It was plain that the commander admired his regiment, rejoiced in it, and that his whole mind was engrossed by it, yet his strut seemed to indicate that, besides military matters, social interests and the fair sex occupied no small part of his thoughts.†
Chpt 2
- So insignificant at that moment seemed to him all the interests that engrossed Napoleon, so mean did his hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and understood, that he could not answer him.†
Chpt 3
- He had been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from Sokolniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless night.†
Chpt 5 *
- For some time he engrossed the general attention, and Anna Pavlovna felt that the novelty she had served up was received with pleasure by all her visitors.†
Chpt 5
- During the first weeks of his stay in Petersburg Prince Andrew felt the whole trend of thought he had formed during his life of seclusion quite overshadowed by the trifling cares that engrossed him in that city.†
Chpt 6
- This prophecy pleased Pierre very much and he often asked himself what would put an end to the power of the beast, that is, of Napoleon, and tried by the same system of using letters as numbers and adding them up, to find an answer to the question that engrossed him.†
Chpt 9
- He was examining the plan, evidently engrossed in his own ideas.†
Chpt 10
- Prince Andrew was in command of a regiment, and the management of that regiment, the welfare of the men and the necessity of receiving and giving orders, engrossed him.†
Chpt 10
- Moreover, his whole attention was engrossed by watching the family circle—separated from all else—formed by the men in the battery.†
Chpt 10
- Pierre, evidently engrossed in thought, could not at first understand him.†
Chpt 11
- Princess Mary, evidently engrossed by her thoughts, was crossing herself for the last time before leaving the church.†
Chpt 12
- The subject which wholly engrossed Natasha's attention was her family: that is, her husband whom she had to keep so that he should belong entirely to her and to the home, and the children whom she had to bear, bring into the world, nurse, and bring up.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(engrossed as in: engrossed in the book) with all attention focused