All 5 Uses of
engrossed
in
Emma
- How much his business engrosses him already is very plain from the circumstance of his forgetting to inquire for the book you recommended.†
Chpt 1.3-4 *
- Mr. Woodhouse had been safely seated long enough to give the history of it, besides all the history of his own and Isabella's coming, and of Emma's being to follow, and had indeed just got to the end of his satisfaction that James should come and see his daughter, when the others appeared, and Mrs. Weston, who had been almost wholly engrossed by her attentions to him, was able to turn away and welcome her dear Emma.†
Chpt 1.13-14
- CHAPTER XVII When the ladies returned to the drawing-room after dinner, Emma found it hardly possible to prevent their making two distinct parties;—with so much perseverance in judging and behaving ill did Mrs. Elton engross Jane Fairfax and slight herself.†
Chpt 2.17-18
- But poor Harriet was such an engrossing charge!†
Chpt 3.11-12
- This point was just arranged, when a visitor arrived to tear Emma's thoughts a little from the one subject which had engrossed them, sleeping or waking, the last twenty-four hours—Mrs. Weston, who had been calling on her daughter-in-law elect, and took Hartfield in her way home, almost as much in duty to Emma as in pleasure to herself, to relate all the particulars of so interesting an interview.†
Chpt 3.11-12
Definition:
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(engrossed as in: engrossed in the book) with all attention focused