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Bessie Ford had gone home from Sunday school with her head turned by hearing some foolish talk about her dress. Alas! how often it is that Sunday scholars, on leaving the school, instead of giving one thought to the divine truths they have been hearing, allow their attention to be absorbed with the petty frivolities in which their thoughts run wild!
Grandpapa was absorbed in his newspaper, for it was newspaper day for him, and newspaper day only came once a week, and when it the paper, not the day did come, it was already the best part of a week old.
The appearance of the man who was almost his only acquaintance in all Moscow his appearance in the company of the very girl who had absorbed his whole attention, seemed to Lavretsky strange and significant. As he continued looking at the box, he remarked that all its occupants treated Mikhalevich like an old friend.
Riderhood sat down in his wooden arm-chair, and looked through the window at the lightning, and listened to the thunder. But, his thoughts were far from being absorbed by the thunder and the lightning, for again and again and again he looked very curiously at the exhausted man upon the bed.
Jock Howieson and his kind regarded the whole matter as a new form of entertainment, and as he could not have put into anything approaching connected words the experiences of his last Saturday, he employed the time in cutting up his unwritten paper into squares of an inch, and making them into pellets with which he prevented the Dowbiggin mind from being too much absorbed in study.
If the Boer army, though not driven off, were yet fully absorbed in its struggle with Sir Redvers Bullet and had drawn to its assistance some portion of the force investing Ladysmith, it might be possible for Sir George White to make a sortie and to break through the investing lines. To that case, however, the term "the relief of Ladysmith" could hardly be correctly applied.
But to these, the little party of four gave no heed. Other men absorbed their interest sleeping men, now more and more thickly scattered all along the stockade. Save for a slight, saline tang to the air an odor by no means unpleasant nothing remained of the lethal gas. But its victims still lay there, prone, in every possible attitude of complete and overpowering abandonment.
How easy for the Creator to do the same thing with us, Roger! Let us not talk of any special danger for the King or for any man, seeing that we are all on the edge of an eternal volcano!" De Launay stood absorbed for a moment, as if in deep thought. Then rousing himself abruptly he said: "You will not see the King, and speak with him before to-morrow night?" "Why should I?" queried the Professor.
Philip Trant. "His wife was absorbed in preparations for the journey. To move him was like mobilizing an army, and weeks before the date set for their departure it was almost as if she were already gone. "This foretaste of separation showed us what we were to each other. Yet I was letting her go and there was no help for it, no way of preventing it.
Now, if for instance a plate of vulcanite is interposed, it cuts off and absorbs a part of the radiant heat emitted by D, and thus a fall is produced in the thermometer reading. But the vulcanite, soon becoming heated by the radiant heat cut off and absorbed by itself, radiates that heat and causes the thermometer reading to return to about its original amount.
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