" She seated herself beside her uncle opposite to Will, and was evidently preoccupied with something that made her almost unmindful of him.
To his preoccupied mind all subjects were to be approached gently, and she had never since his illness lost from her consciousness the dread of agitating him.
He sat in unaltered calm, and, in fact, the company, preoccupied with more important problems, and with the complication of listening to bequests which might or might not be revoked, had ceased to think of him.
In chuckling over the vexations he could inflict by the rigid clutch of his dead hand, he inevitably mingled his consciousness with that livid stagnant presence, and so far as he was preoccupied with a future life, it was with one of gratification inside his coffin.
" "I know that she is married to my cousin," said Will Ladislaw, sauntering down the hall with a preoccupied air, while his German friend kept at his side and watched him eagerly.
Thus, in riding home, both the brother and the sister were preoccupied and inclined to be silent.
Today, however, though they were civil enough, the field-mice and harvest-mice seemed preoccupied.
The four, however, were so much preoccupied by their own conversation that they ate it without noticing how good it was.
Most of them are watching Independence Day fireworks, but it appears that frequent visitors of the Upside Down, Eleven and Will, are preoccupied with whatever's lurking behind them.
Another data set preoccupied astronomer Anthony Brown, whose team coordinated the release of a massive trove of information from the Gaia spacecraft, which has tracked more than a billion stars.
don't let it steal time away from those you love because you're so preoccupied with all that mess.
Wait until you have your postnatal check, which usually happens six weeks to eight weeks after you've had your baby, before you start thinking about weight loss - you'll be far to preoccupied enjoying your new family member!
Those who are preoccupied with criticizing the other party for this, that and the other thing, routinely fail to notice the positive things and eventually see bad things when they aren't really there.
"If your brain is preoccupied with negative thoughts, you may forget to eat or lose interest in cooking or preparing meals," says Yvonne Thomas, PhD, Los Angeles-based psychologist specializing in depression and self-esteem.
His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot about the matter.
Before long, the entire country became preoccupied with Phil's prognosticating, and an annual tradition was born.
His wife, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot about the matter.
Driverless cars could arrive by 2020, but most mayors and transport ministers are preoccupied with next week.
Then the Lord Lao Zi threw his Diamond Jade bracelet() at the Monkey King, who was then preoccupied with fighting the God Erlang, and it hit him neatly on the head.
But meeting the FT in a wood-panelled room at the Fed's headquarters on Constitution Avenue, he appeared as much preoccupied by the longer-term US growth outlook as by the potential for market logjams and mishaps.