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But be all this as it may, certain it is, that with the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in him, Ahab had purposely sailed upon the present voyage with the one only and all-engrossing object of hunting the White Whale.
"There is no room for jesting on grief as hers; majestic and glorious she was, but if the reported tale be true, her every thought, her every feeling was, as I even then imagined, swallowed up in one tearless and stern but all-engrossing anguish." "The reported tale! meanest thou the fate of her son?" asked one of the knights.
He had acquired some of Master Busy's eloquence on the subject of secret investigations, and the mystery which had gained an intensity this afternoon, through the revelations of the old Quakeress, was an all-engrossing one to all.
To the Englishmen the sight of land roused only one great all-engrossing thought the North Pole! which, despite the absurdity of the idea, would present itself in the form of an upright post of terrific magnitude a worthy axle-tree, as it were, for the world to revolve upon.
I knew that in time I could raise the cairn as high as required, but time had now become the all-engrossing subject of my thoughts. The tide had long since turned; it was rising; slowly and continuously it was lipping nearer and nearer slowly but with certainty was it coming; and I perceived all this!
Waiting for him in the sitting-room, she read the Times, and naturally turned to the news from the Seat of War it was then at its height and became engrossed in the details of the Balaklava charge, a month since. The tragedy of the Crimea every war is a tragedy was at this time the all-engrossing topic in London and Paris, and men hung eagerly on every word that passed current as news.
If they are really small but it was only Archdeacon Eldon who told me about them, and he never sees anything any particular size if they should happen to be really small " And Mr. Alwynn turned eagerly to the all-engrossing subject of the Stoke Moreton charters, which furnished him with conversation till they reached home.
The taste and love for art were superseded by criticism and low intrigues, the theatre became a mere political engine, intended to divert the thoughts of the population, of the great cities from the discussion of topics dangerous to the state by the all-engrossing charms of actresses and ballet-dancers.
That they are human beings is lost sight of in the all-engrossing fact that they are women. It is strange that Rousseau, who would have had men return to a state of nature that they might be freed from shams and conventionalities, did not see that the sacrifice of reality to appearances was quite as bad for women.
It makes all the difference between time saved, and time wasted; between efficiency and inefficiency; between rapid progress and standing still, in one's daily work. No pains should be spared, before entering upon the all-engrossing work of a library, to acquire the habit of rapid reading.
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