1 The next day was passed in mere mechanical deeds of preparation, both the women being anxious to immerse themselves in these to escape the emotional aspect of the situation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 8 Firmness Is Discovered in a Gentle Heart 2 At last, with a horrible splash, he darted like an arrow into the ice-cold water, and as he did so he uttered a shrill cry, stifled in a moment by his immersion beneath the waves.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 20. The Cemetery of the Chateau D'If. 3 The sprinkling, and, indeed, the immersion of adults is a perfectly canonical practice.
4 Selden, immersed in his work, had told himself that external conditions did not matter to a man in his state, and that cold and ugliness were a good tonic for relaxed sensibilities.
5 "It was no place for you, anyhow," he agreed, so suffused and immersed in the light of her full gaze that he found himself being drawn into strange depths of intimacy.
6 She was immersed in thought, but not for long.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 4 Eustacia Is Led on to an Adventure 7 He is completely immersed in large public questions, and is rather inaccessible to all ordinary emotions.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 8 Then he took a step in the direction of the traveller, who appeared to be immersed in reflections which were not very serene.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 9 Any nearer and more palpable meeting would have alarmed Cosette at this first stage, when she was still half immersed in the exaggerated mists of the cloister.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE BATTLE BEGUN 10 Madame de Villefort remained immersed in thought.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 52. Toxicology. 11 Pierre remained gloomily silent, answering in monosyllables and apparently immersed in his own thoughts.
12 In particular, there was nothing to fear from the three bank officials, they had immersed themselves back into their paperwork and there was no alteration to be seen in them.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - The... 13 His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularised by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.