Engrossing

Examples

• The popular fear of engrossing and forestalling may be compared to the popular terrors and suspicions of witchcraft. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Her forehead had been strikingly expressive of an engrossing terror and compassion that saw nothing but the peril of the accused. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Oh, it was most engrossing! Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• We are no longer lovers; nor can I call myself a friend to any; since, lost as I am, I have no thought to spare from my own wretched, engrossing self. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She had been engrossing Sir James. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The work was all-engrossing; it occupied every spare moment of his time and thought. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But poor Harriet was such an engrossing charge! Jane Austen. Emma.
• This original engrossing of uncultivated lands, though a great, might have been but a transitory evil. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The engrossing of land, in effect, destroys this plenty and cheapness. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Beaufort must have been very engrossing. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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