"Absorbedly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... It was the man she had seen outside the window of the meeting-house, listening so absorbedly to Philip's sermon. ...
— Kildares of Storm • Eleanor Mercein Kelly
... and took not the smallest notice when a little turbulent fox-terrier, with many squeaks and squirms, wriggled through a hole in the fence and came bounding towards her. And she turned her head and gazed absorbedly across the fields when it was followed by a boy who pitched himself over the fence and ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith
... then, an' cast a look into Annie Darling's gardin. She's gone away an' left it as neat as wax, an' that gate o' hern swings open sometimes an' them 'tarnal ducks'll git in. You wait a minute. I'll give ye a mite o' wire I kep' to twist round the gate." He sought absorbedly in his pocket and pulled out a little coil. "There!" said he, ...
— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown
... still, even after the door had closed upon Harry, and oddly, and rather horridly, she wore the same aspect she had worn the day when she had looked intently and absorbedly upon the ...
— The Coast of Chance • Esther Chamberlain
... kept them for those Sundays when the sun comes up in the west. Of course—often! Some day he was going to melt a diamond and eat it. Then you sparkled all over in the dark, ever after. Another diamond he was going to plant. They say——He did it all gravely, absorbedly. About it he was as conscienceless as a savage. This was no fancy spun to pleasure a child. This was like lying, ...
— Miss Lulu Bett • Zona Gale |
