1 Anna was absorbed the whole morning in preparations for her departure.
2 As though absorbed in the arrangement of her rings, she did not even turn to him.
3 Stepan Arkadyevitch was absorbed during the drive in composing the menu of the dinner.
4 The personal matter that absorbed Levin during his conversation with his brother was this.
5 Pestsov insisted that one country can only absorb another when it is the more densely populated.
6 And his management of his estate, which occupied and absorbed him more and more, was most successful.
7 What they had said in the conversation, that he acted justly only in a negative sense, absorbed his thoughts.
8 The elder had just dropped in the hook, and was carefully pulling the float from behind a bush, entirely absorbed in what he was doing.
9 The business of reorganizing the farming of his land absorbed him as completely as though there would never be anything else in his life.
10 She always seemed absorbed in work about which there could be no doubt, and so it seemed she could not take interest in anything outside it.
11 The talk was principally kept up by the men, while the women were absorbed in watching every detail of the ceremony, which always means so much to them.
12 But this evening, instead of his usual thoughts and meditations upon official details, his thoughts were absorbed by his wife and something disagreeable connected with her.
13 She disliked in Levin his strange and uncompromising opinions and his shyness in society, founded, as she supposed, on his pride and his queer sort of life, as she considered it, absorbed in cattle and peasants.
14 Levin, on the other hand, would have liked to get home as soon as possible to give orders about getting together the mowers for next day, and to set at rest his doubts about the mowing, which greatly absorbed him.
15 He was himself unconscious how, as he approached them, he seized on this impression and absorbed it, as he had the chin of the shopkeeper who had sold him the cigars, and put it away somewhere to be brought out when he wanted it.
16 After reading several books on anthropology, education, and didactics, Alexey Alexandrovitch drew up a plan of education, and engaging the best tutor in Petersburg to superintend it, he set to work, and the subject continually absorbed him.
17 On beginning to talk to the peasants about it, and making a proposition to cede them the land on new terms, he came into collision with the same great difficulty that they were so much absorbed by the current work of the day, that they had not time to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed scheme.
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