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Sentences starting with busy

Busy as Henderson was, pursued by hourly telegrams and letters, we could not but be gratified that his attention to her was that of a lover. [4]

Sentences ending with busy

Suppose I told you that I, your daughter, thought there might be two sides to the political question that is agitating you, and wished in fairness to hear the other side, as I intended to tell you when you were less busy? [9]
Fortunately there was work of Richter's and of Mr. Whipple's left undone that kept him busy. [9]
But her eyes were busy. [11]
Besides, I was very busy. [2]
I am living two lives, and it keeps me pretty busy. [5]
I can't remember the time when you haven't been busy. [9]
Send him to the devil, I'm busy! [2]
It seems to superficial observers that all Americans are born busy. [4]
They left the sun-streaked shade of the oaks, brushed the long grass of the meadows, entered the green and fragrant swaying willows, to stop, at length, under the huge old cottonwoods where the beavers were busy. [13]
He was always so happy to see Monsieur when he (Talleyrand) was not busy. [9]

Short sentences using busy

It's a busy time, miss. [9]
He's too busy getting rich. [9]
They were busy fighting Death. [11]
Every body was busy. [5]
It is very busy then. [4]
This is my busy day. [9]
This is his busy day. [9]
It looked a busy Arcady. [11]
I'm too busy. [11]

Sentences containing busy two or more times

I cannot speak the language; I am too old not to learn how, also too busy when I am busy, and too indolent when I am not; wherefore some will imagine that I am having a dull time of it. [5]
Well, that is just our way, exactly-one half of the administration always busy getting the family into trouble, and the other half busy getting it out again. [5]
She was too busy to unpack her wedding dresses for several days after they arrived from Halifax; yet not too busy to think of arrangements by which Miss Wooler's journey to be present at the marriage could be facilitated. [14]
The couple lay awake the most of the night, Mary happy and busy, Edward busy, but not so happy. [5]
Of course there are exceptions to this rule of judgment, but I maintain that the presumption is always against the rhymester as compared with the less pretentious persons about him or her, busy with some useful calling,--too busy to be tagging rhymed commonplaces together. [6]
We sat still an hour, busy with thought, busy with vain and useless self-upbraidings, busy with "Why didn't I do this, and why didn't I do that," but neither spoke a word. [5]

More example sentences with the word busy in them

If he comes, you keep him busy for a moment. [11]
Mr. Bradshaw, if you are not busy, I wish you would look over this bundle of papers. [6]
I was busy yesterday and I did not intend to go, knowing I should have another "Tannh:auser" opportunity in a few days; but after five o'clock I found myself free and walked out to the opera-house and arrived about the beginning of the second act. [5]
It had been written just after Georg's return the day before, and ran as follows: "Joyously they march along, Lights are flashing through the panes, In the streets a busy throng Curiosity enchains. [10]
Don't bother to write a letter--3 lines on a postal card is all that I can permit from a busy man. [5]
And everywhere were workshops, factories, and all manner of industries; and intent faces and busy hands were to be seen wherever one looked; and in one's ears was the ceaseless clink of hammers, the buzz of trade and the contented hum of drums and fly-wheels. [5]
Fielding was busy with the map at the dreaded moment that hundreds of the villagers appeared upon the bank and rushed the Amenhotep. [11]
He was busy with the grim ledger of his life. [11]
And while busy with his few camp tasks he revolved the thing in his mind. [13]
Besides being occupied with his estates and reading a great variety of books, Prince Andrew was at this time busy with a critical survey of our last two unfortunate campaigns, and with drawing up a proposal for a reform of the army rules and regulations. [2]
And tell him who is beyond and away in Egypt that old Soolsby's busy making a chair for him to sit in when the scarlet cloth is spread, and the East and West come to salaam before him. [11]
In busy places, where each man has an object of his own, and feels assured that every other man has his, his character and purpose are written broadly in his face. [12]
In one place, where a busy little city with banks and newspapers and fire companies and a mayor and aldermen had been, was nothing but a wide expanse of emerald turf, with not even the faintest sign that human life had ever been present there. [5]
Fabian was stunned when he entered the Louis Quinze and saw her waiting at table, alert, busy, good to behold. [11]
I didn't know what to say, but I did say this after a while:--"'W-well, Mr. President, I guess I've kept you long enough--g-guess you're a pretty busy man. [9]
A number of wharfboat clerks were needed, and part of the time, every day, they were very busy, and part of the time tediously idle. [5]
When her eyes were not thus busy, they were searching the lee of the hillside round for yellow lilies, and the valley below for the campion, the daffodil, and the thousand pretty ferns growing in profusion there. [11]
The Belloc people were delighted, but they lived in daily fear of a strike in their own yards, for agitators were busy amongst their workmen. [11]
Boys and men were busy pounding out the seeds from the cones. [4]
A hundred thoughts were busy in her brain--of her father; of the woman who had just left; of her lover over the hills. [11]
Somers and Gates were busy building two cedar ships, the Deliverer, of eighty tons, and a pinnace called the Patience. [4]
The Alexandrian populace were accustomed to see much that was strange in the busy streets of their crowded city; but this vehicle attracted every eye, and excited astonishment, admiration and mirth, wherever it appeared, and not unfrequently the bitterest ridicule. [10]
When the sun went down, and the busy crowd were about to leave, Nefert detained them, and said: "The Sun-bark is sinking behind the western hills; come, let us pray together for the king and for those we love in the field. [10]
Since he was well enough to be about the house, she was busy again with her studies. [5]
A mysterious burden weighed on the Heart of the busy city and clicked its pulses, as a nightmare oppresses the dreamer. [10]
In busy life we have no real or lasting dreams, no ideals. [11]
Venters went his way with busy, gloomy mind, revolving events of the day, trying to reckon those brooding in the night. [13]
An unusual influence was working upon the frequenters of the busy tavern. [11]
Sometimes, while ---- was warning me against the faults of the artist-class, all the while vagrant artist instincts were busy in the mind of his listener. [14]
The new Secretary was very busy with the work of examining these papers. [6]
Perhaps Mark Twain was too busy at this time to write letters. [5]
Fact is, I was thinkin' so busy about makin' things comfortable for the others, I hadn't thought about being buried myself. [5]
Her inventive brain was now busy in devising means to induce the Syrian to undertake its execution. [10]
If Jean Jacques was not so busy with his farms and his mills and his kilns and his usury, he would see what a woman he has got. [11]
The fruit market was full of busy life. [10]
Mr. Henry Brierly was exceedingly busy in New York, so he wrote Col. [5]
Mark Twain's mind was always busy with plans and inventions, many of them of serious intent, some semi-serious, others of a purely whimsical character. [5]
The mining camp was a busy place at any rate. [5]
And then He visited me with sorrow, and, if I still mourn, I have peace, too, and a busy life. [11]
Mr. Peckham gave very little personal attention to the department of instruction, but was always busy with contracts for flour and potatoes, beef and pork, and other nutritive staples, the amount of which required for such an establishment was enough to frighten a quartermaster. [6]
The house looks very clean, and, I think, is not damp; there is, however, still a great deal to do in the way of settling and arranging,--enough to keep me disagreeably busy for some time to come. [14]
It was a very busy summer with the Hendersons. [4]
He was a very busy man. [9]
He was a very busy man, was my uncle, and had a kind of dignified run, which he used between Marlboro' Street and the Council Chamber in the Stadt House, or the Governor's mansion. [9]
He was a very busy man, in the thick of the struggle for a great fortune. [4]
Prince Vasili's two valets were busy dressing him, and he looked round with much animation and cheerfully nodded to his son as the latter entered, as if to say: "Yes, that's how I want you to look. [2]
She could not utter a word, for she felt that whatever she might say, it would not be the right thing; and it was a real relief to her to busy herself over the removal of the body, in which she could be helpful. [10]
Here the author used to sit for hours, weaving histories out of the casual incidents passing under his eye, and the occupations of the busy mortals below. [4]
This ride gave us completely the wide and ghastly desolation of the mountain, the ruin that the lava has wrought upon slopes that were once green with vine and olive, and busy with the hum of life. [4]
He straightened himself up in his chair and deliberately and sorrowfully inspected the busy old ladies at his elbows, first one and then the other. [5]
Neither of these two adventurers into a wild world of feeling noticed that a man was sitting on a little knoll under a tree, not far away from their meeting-place, busy with pencil and paper. [11]
Was that reptile Tremouille busy at the King's ear? [5]
If the Baron took a like cognizance of all my countrymen who came to New Orleans, he was a busy man indeed. [9]
The age is too busy, too harassed, to have time for literature; and enjoyment of writings like those of Irving depends upon leisure of mind. [4]
And they are too busy with the affairs of the province to be burdened as my executors. [9]
They had been too busy with other matters to-day, and now they needed all hands in heaping the bodies together. [10]
He was never too busy to converse with them; or, it might better be said, to listen to them converse. [9]
They all got to work without loss of time, and very busy they were. [12]
Mandeville says that to his knowledge there are a great many people who get up ameliorating enterprises merely to be conspicuously busy in society, or to earn a little something in a good cause. [4]
Sometimes it seemed to him that other people were all as pleased as he was himself and merely tried to hide that pleasure by pretending to be busy with other interests. [2]
The two-miles walk to her beloved retreat seemed a matter of minutes only, so busy were her thoughts. [11]
He needed but to carry the banner of bravery, and a busy sword, and his way to power was not hindered by poor estate. [11]
Barbara was busy, to be sure, but so much the better--Kit could help her, and that would pass away the time better than any means that could be devised. [12]
His summer was to be a very busy one. [4]
And all that time the rest of us will be busy supporting the moribund, and working Paris and the dealers--preparations for the coming event, you know; and when everything is hot and just right, we'll spring the death on them and have the notorious funeral. [5]
In the mean time the prudent Mr. Gridley had been keeping the young man busy, and amusing himself by showing him such of the sights of the city and its suburbs as he thought would combine instruction with entertainment. [6]
For the third time the busy magistrate was not at home, but he had been informed that the syndic expected him that afternoon, as he wished to discuss a matter of importance. [10]
I had little time or inclination for reading fiction; my days were busy ones, and my nights were spent with law books. [9]
For a little time after that Mr. Crewe, although naturally an important and busy man, scarcely had time to nod to his friends on the road. [9]
I have looked through the bars and seen the great world of men busy and happy, but I had no part in their doings. [6]
Being awake, my thoughts were busy, of course; and mainly they busied themselves with Sandy's curious delusion. [5]
I'll--I'll be busy this winter, Cynthy. [9]
These were by this time deserted by their inhabitants, who were busy in the field, the house, or the quarries; they consisted of a few ill-lighted rooms with bare, unfinished walls. [10]
In a moment, they, with the people, were busy carrying water to pour upon the side of the endangered warehouse. [11]
I saw that these successive dwellers on the stream were busy in constructing and setting afloat vessels of various size and form and rig--arks, galleys, galleons, sloops, brigs, boats propelled by oars, by sails, by steam. [4]
I went in there and asked for George Haven Putnam, and handed him my card, and then the young man said Mr. Putnam was busy and I couldn't see him. [5]
Yet, even on the worst days, he was busy at his place in the piazza, where the cathedral, which he had been building for three years, was nearing completion. [10]
Age after age the world labors for these things with the busy absorption of a colony of ants in its castle of sand. [4]
During one of the two years a small-pox epidemic passed over Pontiac, and he was busy night and day. [11]
The bird (with the toothpick in his mouth) creates a smile from other chiefs of the system in good standing who are not too busy to look at him. [9]
As she passed the school-house she could hear the busy hum of voices. [12]
As a rule the rich is so busy lookin' afther what they've got that they're not worryin' about the poor; but she thought of me, didn't she? [11]
Another section amid the regimental wagons and horses which were standing in a group was busy getting out caldrons and rye biscuit, and feeding the horses. [2]
But he, in the mean time, was busy with thoughts she did not suspect. [6]
Mr. Tiernan, like the Greeks, was happy, too: unlike the Greeks, he never appeared to be busy, and yet he throve. [9]
In spite of the fact I have noted, that I had lost a certain zest for results, to keep busy seemed to be the only way to relieve my mind of an otherwise intolerable pressure: and I worked sometimes far into the evening. [9]
We stan' at the door and look out, and all the prairie is green, and the sun stan' up high like a light on a pole, and the birds fly by ver' busy looking for the summer and the prairie-flower. [11]
We went through the cool bank, with its shining brass and red mahogany, its tiled floor, its busy tellers attending to files of clients, to the president's sanctum in the rear. [9]
Now there is the conversation of hens, when the hens are busy and not self-conscious; there is something fascinating about it, because the imagination may invest it with a recondite and spicy meaning; but the common talk of people! [4]
Paula was moistening the bandage on the Masdakite's head, and Pulcheria was busy in the adjoining room with Mandane, who obeyed the physician's instructions with intelligent submission and showed no signs of insanity. [10]
We will discuss the affair further at some less busy hour. [10]
A third, in the absence of opponents, between two councils would simply solicit a special gratuity for his faithful services, well knowing that at that moment people would be too busy to refuse him. [2]
He presently found that while he was busy drawing life from one of his sleeves a young English gentleman was stealing supplies from the other one. [5]
Some have said that the practice arises from nervousness--the idle desire to be busy without doing anything--and because it fills up the pauses of vacuity in conversation. [4]
My idea is that the employer should be the busy man, and the employee the idle one. [5]
Next, Clarence found that old Merlin was making himself busy on the sly among those people. [5]
Not a day that I don't put aside an opportunity; too busy to look into it. [5]
He soon discovered that his light was seen burning late into the night, that he was neglecting his natural rest, and always busy with some unknown task, not called for in his routine of duty or legitimate study. [6]
I could see that he did forgive me with all his heart, and this Petrus stands in the midst of life, and is busy early and late with mere worldly affairs. [10]
If we could suppose there was a web covering this region, spun by the most alert and busy of men to catch those less alert and more productive, here in this Chamber would sit the ingenious spiders. [4]

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