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Sentences ending with engaged

Say, Becky, was you ever engaged? [5]
Philip searched them with the feverish eagerness of a maiden who scans the report of a battle in which her lover has been engaged. [4]
He was Perry Upson's eldest son, His father loved his noble son, This son was nineteen years of age When first in the rebellion he engaged. [5]
And always coming to school or when we're going home, you're to walk with me, when there ain't anybody looking--and you choose me and I choose you at parties, because that's the way you do when you're engaged. [5]
It was according to Amajuba precedent, where the British loss was 226 out of about 400 engaged. [5]
The twins threw themselves into it with their whole heart, for their self-love was engaged. [5]
The arrangement for the Villa Papiniano was not completed, after all, and through a good friend, George Gregory Smith, a resident of Florence, the Villa Quarto, an ancient home of royalty, on the hills west of Florence, was engaged. [5]
I am told that the Tutor is unmarried, and so far as known not engaged. [6]
It was the song Kathleen sang for him the night they became engaged. [11]
She came to see him instead, for she wrote to the landlord of the Louis Quinze, enclosed fine testimonials, and was at once engaged. [11]

Short sentences using engaged

He is engaged to me. [9]
Are you engaged in anything? [4]
Bradshaw was unfortunately engaged. [6]
Lurida Vincent is engaged! [6]
Have you engaged a hearse? [5]
They were engaged. [9]

More example sentences with the word engaged in them

That each of you will, in his sphere, do all he can to have the officers, soldiers, and seamen of the army and navy, while engaged in the effort to suppress the rebellion, paid, fed, clad, and otherwise well provided for and supported. [7]
He knew that you were engaged to me. [9]
For the services you have done in this great struggle in which we are engaged, I present you sincere thanks for myself and the country. [7]
I know that you believe that a political system should go hand in hand with the great commercial system which you are engaged in building. [9]
He said he would give up the engaged state-room, but he must have a state-room. [5]
Leicester was riding with the Knights Tilters, and as they cantered lightly past the dais, trailing their spears in obeisance, Elizabeth engaged herself in talk with Cecil, who was standing near, and appeared not to see the favourite. [11]
Being deeply engaged with the details of the expedition to the Soudan, David had not gone to the Palace; and he was unaware of the turn which things had taken. [11]
Most self-made Englishmen, with such a burly exterior and energy, and engaged in such pursuits, could not, to save themselves from hanging, have impressed her as Mr. Vandewaters did. [11]
He went out with a company from Hawkeye to the war, and was not wanting in courage, but he would have been a better soldier if he had been less engaged in contrivances for circumventing the enemy by strategy unknown to the books. [5]
When he returned, Wilhelm and Junker von Warmond were so engaged in eager conversation, that they did not notice his entrance. [10]
During the period while he was engaged in writing it, his wife, who had seemed in perfect health, died suddenly of pneumonia. [6]
The struggle in which we are engaged was inevitable; it might have come a little sooner, or a little later, but it must have come. [6]
The war in which we are engaged is for no meanly ambitious or unworthy purpose. [6]
The business in which his thriving brothers were engaged was the importation and sale of hardware and cutlery, and that spring his services were required at the "store. [4]
You were engaged when you came here? [9]
I thought you were the most engaged man I ever saw; but I guess you're more father-in-lawed. [8]
His artistic faculties were once more roused into play, and found a field for their freest exercise when Antinous told him that he was at his disposal till mid-day, since his master--or rather Caesar as he was now permitted to name him--was engaged in business. [10]
The two commanders were much exasperated with one another and, long after the action had begun on the right flank and the French were already advancing, were engaged in discussion with the sole object of offending one another. [2]
Presently the two were engaged in conversation. [6]
When the men were engaged in consultation, Maria was permitted to fill their glasses and be present at their conferences. [10]
In 1621 there were as many as ten thousand strangers in London, engaged in one hundred and twenty-one different trades. [4]
When the Colonel went away they were engaged to be married, as soon as he could make certain arrangements which he represented to be necessary, and quit the army. [5]
Mr. Tooting, as we know, had abandoned the law office of the Honourable Hilary Vane and was now engaged in travelling over the State, apparently in search of health. [9]
The place where we had engaged lodgings was Hotel d'Orient, in the Rue Daunou. [6]
In another quarter we found six Italians engaged in a violent quarrel. [5]
While the attorney was thus engaged, the dwarf was groping under the table, muttering desperate imprecations on himself, and mankind in general, and all inanimate objects to boot, which suggested to Mr Brass the question, 'what's the matter? [12]
The Queen's fool was standing near, seemingly engaged in the light occupation of catching imaginary flies, buzzing with his motions. [11]
However, perhaps he was merely engaged in 'upholding the ancient dignity of the Senate,'--then. [5]
While her mind was engaged subconsciously with what Lord Windlehurst and David said, comprehending it all, and, when Lord Windlehurst appealed to her, offering by a word contribution to the 'pourparler', she was studying David as steadily as her heated senses would permit her. [11]
Already his mind was engaged in scrutiny of the circumstances in which he was set. [11]
Jethro Bass, who was engaged in pushing hemlock bark under the stone to be crushed, straightened. [9]
Fresh, immaculate, yet virile in his light suit and silk shirt with red stripes, he was seated at his desk engaged in turning over some papers in a drawer. [9]
We see how, upon the result of the debate in which we are engaged, a war may ensue between the United States and one, two, or even more European nations. [7]
Here we came upon a new board shanty, and found some men engaged in building a stone house; so the Schwarenbach was soon to have a rival. [5]
It follows, that, until a man can be found who knows himself as his Maker knows him, or who sees himself as others see him, there must be at least six persons engaged in every dialogue between two. [6]
The joint commission under the act of the last session of carrying into effect the convention with Peru on the subject of claims has been organized at Lima, and is engaged in the business intrusted to it. [7]
His own heart too grew lighter while engaged in designing or executing many an artistic piece of work. [10]
I have engaged to write for the new literary paper--the "Californian" --same pay I used to receive on the "Golden Era"--one article a week, fifty dollars a month. [5]
She was engaged to write a serial story, it seems, and had only got as far as the second number, and some critic had been jumping upon it, she said, and grinding his heel into it, till she couldn't bear to look at it. [6]
Mrs. Armour turned to the mantel and seemed tremulously engaged in arranging some bric-a-brac. [11]
Every age has to shape the Divine image it worships over again,--the present age and our own country are busily engaged in the task at this time. [6]
Mr. Smith wishes to reprint some of Emily's and Annie's works, with a few little additions from the papers they have left; and I have been closely engaged in revising, transcribing, preparing a preface, notice, etc. [14]
Goodhue is engaged to Miss Clarkson, the sister to the pretty one. [4]
The Princess, eager to learn English, engaged her, and she had remained in the palace till the Princess left for England. [11]
I was engaged to him, you know. [9]
He had first to help Dorippe cut the green branches, and, while thus engaged, sought pleasant gifts not only on the ground, but from his sweetheart's red lips, then moved up the mountain with his donkey, very slowly, without urging the animal. [10]
He had come to believe that the enterprises in which he was engaged, that absolutely gave him, it was believed, an income of a million a year, were for the public good. [4]
Whatever he tried to be, whatever he engaged in, the evil and falsehood of it repulsed him and blocked every path of activity. [2]
I--I am engaged to be married. [9]
While she was thus engaged, the merry little man looked at her with an interest which did not appear to be diminished when he glanced at her helpless companion. [12]
While she was thus engaged, Mr Swiveller looked on with a grateful heart, very much astonished to see how thoroughly at home she made herself, and attributing this attention, in its origin, to Sally Brass, whom, in his own mind, he could not thank enough. [12]
While we were thus engaged, I revolved in my mind a hundred different explanations of the riddle and rejected them every one. [12]
To give the thunderstorm time to pass and take his wife and daughter home dry, he had entered a tavern near the lindens and there engaged in conversation with several friends over some wine. [10]
At this time, they talked over the stories they were engaged upon, and described their plots. [14]
When thus engaged, they become so absorbed that a skilful archer may shoot nearly the whole party. [1]
He was just then engaged in getting off stock, and welcomed the 'Times-Democrat' boat heartily, as he said there was much need for her. [5]
And Honora, following their glances, beheld the two ladies, in the negligee referred to above, with their elbows on the railing of the upper hall and their faces between their hands, engaged in a lively exchange of compliments with the gentlemen. [9]
Within the bar the young lawyers and the privileged hangers-on filled all the chairs except those reserved at the table for those engaged in the case. [5]
The king saw the two engaged in a struggle, but he could not interfere, for the reins which Mena had dropped were dragging on the ground, and his ungoverned horses, following the lions, carried him madly onwards. [10]
On Sunday morning, the twenty-first, having engaged James Grayden and his team, I set out with the Chaplain and the Philanthropist for Keedysville. [6]
The remainder of the summer I spent half with my mother, half with my aunt, and pursued the same course during the subsequent years, until from 1862 I remained longer in Berlin, engaged in study, and began my scientific journeys. [10]
When we entered the smoking-room we found Lieutenant Clayton and Szczepanik engaged in a warm talk over the telelectroscope in the German tongue. [5]
Petya was in the porch, engaged in giving out weapons to the servants who were to leave Moscow. [2]
He remained in the palace scarcely half an hour and then, while Pollux was still engaged in escorting his mother and their household goods to his sister's house, he went to visit the night magistrate, who presided over the safety of Alexandria. [10]
Hours after all the others were asleep, Adam and the doctor still sat on a sack of straw, engaged in earnest conversation. [10]
I'm off for the Judge," and away went Ingot hard afoot, having already engaged a Judge, called Grimshaw, in the village near to perform the ceremony. [11]
It was all the impression of the moment, while the phrases in his mind had been wonderfully logical things which, from an intellectual standpoint, would have delighted the man whose cause he was now engaged in defending. [11]
Fulkerson, while breaking the ice for the whole company, was mainly engaged in keeping Colonel Woodburn thawed out. [8]
We got to the hotel where we had engaged quarters, at eleven o'clock in the evening of Wednesday, the 12th of May. [6]
She browse around the hills and scour the woods with me --alone--and I as good as engaged to be married? [5]
Paulus sat by the hearth, and was so busily engaged with some carving, that he did not observe her approach. [10]
Then I ain't the first you've ever been engaged to! [5]
The nature of the expedition was not known in Quebec, for the sailors were not engaged till the eve of starting, and Perrot's men were ready at his bidding without why or wherefore. [11]
The Paladin had the effrontery to pretend that she had engaged herself to him several years before, and now he claimed a ratification of the engagement. [5]
Such, however, is the difference between town and country, that nobody took the smallest notice of this insinuating figure; the wretches being wholly engaged in bidding the travellers farewell, in kissing hands to each other, waving handkerchiefs, and the like tame and vulgar practices. [12]
The failure of the Deseret News, the Church organ, and the only paper then published in the Territory, to notice the massacre until several months afterward, and then only to deny that Mormons were engaged in it. [5]
It had reached the city too late, but on Saturday evening Janus Dousa and Captain Van der Laen were actively engaged, summoning every one capable of bearing arms to appear early Sunday morning. [10]
Gradually, out of the chaotic melee in which these titans were engaged had emerged one group more powerful than the rest and more respectable, whose leader was the Personality to whom I have before referred. [9]
Being engaged in the adjustment of some accounts--an occupation to which the silence and solitude of his retreat were very favourable--he had not strayed from his den for two whole days. [12]
The spectacle of the "millionaire" owner of the house engaged in this menial occupation gave her no thrills. [9]
I say, then, that, if these odd sounds coming from the Little Gentleman's chamber sometimes make me nervous, so that I cannot get to sleep, it is not because I suppose he is engaged in any unlawful or mysterious way. [6]
It is probable that while still an under-graduate at Yale, he was engaged to Alice Adams, who was born in Canterbury, a young lady distinguished then as she was afterwards for great beauty and intelligence. [4]
It is singular that while he was engaged with his great event, he was also thinking what an air of authority the ring gave. [11]
I have recognized that where there are two individuals talking together there are really six personalities engaged in the conversation. [6]
The fact was that the day had been a perplexing one; he was engaged in one of his big fights, a scheme that aroused all his pugnacity and taxed all his resources. [4]
Some conversation showed that Mr. Prescott was contemplating the subject upon which Mr. Irving was engaged, and the latter instantly authorized Mr. Cogswell to say that he abandoned it. [4]
I told him that I was unfortunately engaged for the evening mentioned. [6]
It was true that he never seemed to have ready money, but he was engaged in very large operations. [5]
Ten minutes later that gentleman was engaged in a private conversation with his colleague, the Honourable Timothy Wading. [9]
The vagrant vessels that are idly watched from the rocks at the Pier may be coasters and freight schooners engaged seriously in trade, but they do not seem so. [4]
The Vice President telegraphed back that every berth was engaged (which was not true--it goes without saying) but that he was sending his own car for us. [5]
Jack, an unlucky Tanna recruit, who had been engaged to act as boatman, received an arrow through his forearm, the head of which--apiece of bone seven or eight inches long--was still in the limb, protruding from both sides, when the boats returned. [5]
A week after taking possession of the apartments in the treasury, the servants received orders to refuse admittance to every one, without distinction of rank or person, informing them that the artist was engaged in working for His Majesty. [10]
I have been surprised at the literary ability engaged by the great corporations. [4]
As usual on such occasions there were a large number of noncombatants, who stood as spectators around those who were engaged in the campaign of the evening. [6]
Unique is a strong word, but I use it justifiably if I did not misconceive what the American told me; for I understood him to say that in the world there was not another man engaged in the business which he was following. [5]
There 's a story that they're engaged, or like to be, if the firm consents. [6]
With this testimonial, Stobo sailed for New York, 24th April, 1760, to rejoin the army engaged in the invasion of Canada; here end the Memoirs. [11]
While she was still engaged in prayer the boat touched the shore. [10]
Glaucus was excessively startled to recognize Serapion, but he was so much engaged that he could only give up a few minutes to his brother, whose proceedings he considered as both inexplicable and criminal. [10]

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