All 5 Uses of
engrossed
in
Bleak House
- Among them was one, in the same writing, having nothing to do with the business of the shop, but announcing that a respectable man aged forty-five wanted engrossing or copying to execute with neatness and dispatch: Address to Nemo, care of Mr. Krook, within.†
Chpt 4-6
- To Snagsby's, LawStationer's, Deeds engrossed and copied, Law-Writing executed in all its branches, &c.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- It touched me then to reflect, and it touches me now, more nearly, to remember (having what I have to tell) how they both thought of me, even at that engrossing time.†
Chpt 13-15
- The sportive twins, who have been looking straight before them all this time except when they have been engrossed by the black leathern cases, retire together, generally disdainful of the visitor, but leaving him to the old man as two young cubs might leave a traveller to the parental bear.†
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. Snagsby is behind his counter in his grey coat and sleeves, inspecting an indenture of several skins which has just come in from the engrosser's, an immense desert of law-hand and parchment, with here and there a resting-place of a few large letters to break the awful monotony and save the traveller from despair.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(engrossed as in: engrossed in the book) with all attention focused