"Read the first few sentences of what you've got," he remarked. Ernestine obeyed. To all appearance the man was engrossed in his own work, but when she paused he nodded his head appreciatively. "It'll do!" he said. "Don't try to polish it. Give it down, and see that the proofs are submitted to me. Where's the sketch?"
She held it out to him. For a moment he looked away from his own work and took the opportunity to light a fresh cigarette.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
I looked round. There was no Raffles to respond. We had all. three been examining the photographs at one of the windows; at another three newcomers were similarly engrossed; and without one word, or a single sound, Raffles had decamped behind all. our backs.英文原著 · 《A Thief in the Night》
The Declaration thus signed on the 4th, on paper was engrossed on parchment, & signed again on the 2d. of August.英文原著 · 《AUTOBIOGRAPHY》
In the day we shop and ride. But all day and all night we the correspondents plot and slave and intrigue over the places on the columns. I got mine on the second column all right but no one knows if it ever will move. So, naturally, I want to be on the first. The rows are so engrossing that I have not enjoyed the country as I expected. Still, I am everlastingly glad we came. It is an entirely new life and aspect. It completes so much that we have read and seen.英文原著 · 《Adventures and Letters》
Perchance he is some vulgar man,
Engrossed in pounds s. But, ah! through Nature's holy plan
He whispered hope to me!英文原著 · 《Ban and Arriere Ban》
"Oh, because--" Seeing that the conversation did not promise to be a success, I took up my book again, and began to read. Yet it was a strange thing that, though we sometimes passed whole hours together without speaking when we were alone, the mere presence of a third--sometimes of a taciturn and wholly uninteresting person--sufficed to plunge us into the most varied and engrossing of discussions. The truth was that we knew one another too well, and to know a person either too well or too little acts as a bar to intimacy.英文原著 · 《Boyhood》
I'm not 100 percent watching because I'm so engrossed in the second screen experience, but according to the second screen experience, other people are loving the show.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》