1 They stood looking at each other as if the eyes of each were straining to absorb and hold fast the other's image.
2 Main Street with its two-story brick shops, its story-and-a-half wooden residences, its muddy expanse from concrete walk to walk, its huddle of Fords and lumber-wagons, was too small to absorb her.
3 Laurie thought that the task of forgetting his love for Jo would absorb all his powers for years, but to his great surprise he discovered it grew easier every day.
4 Pestsov insisted that one country can only absorb another when it is the more densely populated.
5 Nor does the embroidered purple so move the King, nor the sceptre of Priam, as his daughter's marriage and the bridal chamber absorb him, and the oracle of ancient Faunus stirs deep in his heart.
6 It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS 7 The Bishop returned home, deeply absorbed in thoughts which cannot be known to us.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT 8 The man had again become absorbed in his reflections.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 9 A moment later he was in his garden, walking, meditating, contemplating, his heart and soul wholly absorbed in those grand and mysterious things which God shows at night to the eyes which remain open.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V—TRANQUILLITY 10 He was absorbed in a sort of prayer.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE BEGINNING OF REPOSE 11 Fantine was still motionless and seemed absorbed in her own thoughts.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI—SISTER SIMPLICE PUT TO THE PROOF 12 He listened to her words as one listens to the sighing of the breeze, with his eyes on the ground, his mind absorbed in reflection which had no bottom.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY 13 He remained thus, mute, absorbed, evidently with no further thought of anything connected with this life.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS 14 On the evening of that day the worthy old woman was sitting in her lodge, still in a thorough fright, and absorbed in sad reflections.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB 15 Then she sat down again on her chair, and became absorbed in thought once more.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—A SUITABLE TOMB