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Sentences ending with preoccupied

Mr. Bentley, too, was preoccupied. [9]
She has since told me that I appeared self-conscious and preoccupied. [11]
She paused, was silent, preoccupied. [11]
With the memory of past feuds and hatreds in his mind, and predisposed against any Vaufontaine, his greeting was courteously disdainful, his manner preoccupied. [11]
The Colonel was gravely polite, but preoccupied. [9]
All that day and the next his friends and comrades noticed that Rostov, without being dull or angry, was silent, thoughtful, and preoccupied. [2]

More example sentences with the word preoccupied in them

That this intimacy would have resulted in marriage, or an offer of marriage, if the lady's affections had not been preoccupied, the Fosters seem to have believed. [4]
To me, preoccupied with the knowledge that the tug would soon be upon us, there seemed nothing strange in the attitude of these two, but Miss Trevor remarked something out of the common at once. [9]
She was very white, and seemed troubled and preoccupied, and said that Mr. [9]
Stephen had a way of being preoccupied at such times. [9]
I used to watch Mr. Grosvenor Kyme as he sat at the end of the dinner-table, dark, preoccupied, taciturn, symbolical of a wealth new to my experience, and which had about it a certain fabulous quality. [9]
At first he was preoccupied, and answered absently across the table the questions of the Englishman and the Austrian about American politics, and talked to the lady of social prominence on his right not at all; nor to Mrs. Pomfret'--who excused him. [9]
For Edith, the sole relief of the evening was an exchange of sympathy with Father Damon, and she was too much preoccupied to enjoy that. [4]
Pierre had been silent and preoccupied all through dinner, seeming not to grasp what was said. [2]
So intent had she been on what she had meant to tell him that she did not until now perceive he was preoccupied, and only half listening to what she was saying. [9]
I must have sat very silent and preoccupied at the table, where all was wit and merriment. [9]
Prince Andrew stood right in front of Kutuzov but the expression of the commander in chief's one sound eye showed him to be so preoccupied with thoughts and anxieties as to be oblivious of his presence. [2]
The face was preoccupied, the eyes were watchful, dark, penetrating. [11]
He was still preoccupied, an hour later, when Alison arose to go. [9]
Hodder left, too preoccupied to draw any significance from the nature of his welcome. [9]
Compared to what preoccupied him, was it not a matter of indifference whether he lived with his wife or not? [2]
He tried to pass either in front of them or to the right or left, but there were soldiers everywhere, all with the same preoccupied expression and busy with some unseen but evidently important task. [2]
Kutuzov's expression grew more and more preoccupied and gloomy. [2]
One or two ladies gave him a preoccupied nod, a plain little woman whom he had talked with about books at a recent dinner smiled upon him encouragingly. [4]
It was extravagant in terms of affection, but somehow it fell short of the true thing, for its ardour was that of a mind preoccupied, and underneath all ran a current of inherent selfishness. [11]
He screwed up his seeing eye to scrutinize the messenger more carefully, as if wishing to read in his face what preoccupied his own mind. [2]
Euthymia noticed that her friend had been very much preoccupied for two or three days. [6]
And from the height of this perception all that had previously tormented and preoccupied him suddenly became illumined by a cold white light without shadows, without perspective, without distinction of outline. [2]
The lawyer, as he greeted them, seemed to be preoccupied, nor did he seek to relieve the tension with his customary joke. [9]
Hardly had he got rid of his hat before he ran into Prince Andrew's room with a preoccupied air and at once began talking. [2]
Pierre, who had come downstairs, walked through the rooms and struck everyone by his preoccupied, absent-minded, and morose air. [2]
A wind arose before we sighted Greensbury Point, and I saw a bark sailing in, but thought nothing of this until Mr. Carvel, who had been silent and preoccupied, called for his glass and swept her decks. [9]
It had never before occurred to him to enter into the nature of her feelings, having been so preoccupied with and tortured by his own. [9]
Pierre, on unexpectedly becoming Count Bezukhov and a rich man, felt himself after his recent loneliness and freedom from cares so beset and preoccupied that only in bed was he able to be by himself. [2]
Prince Andrew, depressed and preoccupied with the business about which he had to speak to the Marshal, was driving up the avenue in the grounds of the Rostovs' house at Otradnoe. [2]
He seemed preoccupied, and heedless of the salutations he received; but when he caught sight of Jethro he crossed the corridor rapidly and sat down beside him. [9]
Kutuzov seemed preoccupied and did not listen to what the general was saying. [2]
Pierre had the air of a man preoccupied with considerations which had no connection with the matter in hand. [2]
With a preoccupied air he arranged a handful of papers on the table. [11]
As she looked abstractedly and yet with the intensity of the preoccupied mind, her eye became aware of a little piece of wood let into the moulding of the frame. [11]
I had only a glance at the great man, for, with a kindly but preoccupied "Thank you, Hugh," Mr. Watling took the papers and dismissed me. [9]

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