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Meanings of more engrossing in English

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Usage of more engrossing in English
1
No occupation was ever more engrossing or involved greater responsibility .
Queen Victoria
2
Some day even stamp collecting may be superseded by a more engrossing hobby.
Stamp Collecting as a Pastime
3
The experience was becoming more engrossing,-ifI may so describe it,-andspring was approaching.
A Far Country — Volume 2
4
Let it fail, was Richard Sheridan's thought; he had now a far more engrossing ambition.
The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 2
5
His faculties are absorbed by other tasks, not more important, but more engrossing and essentially different.
Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America
6
It is enough to say that there was a more engrossing, a more marvellous love at work.
The Vicar's Daughter
7
But with father the fact of presence, real meeting, actual talk, seemed more engrossing than the thing talked.
A Brief Memoir with Portions of the Diary, Letters, and Other Re...
8
Unluckily there are subjects more engrossing, and problems more attractive, than politics, and science, art, and pure metaphysics.
Oxford
9
Such affairs are more engrossing than all others in the world, if I remember my own youthful days aright.
The Rose of Old St. Louis
10
She was only glad that Belle's curiosity, usually robust enough concerning ranch happenings, was now under more engrossing pressure.
Laramie Holds the Range
11
Harry Luttrell's enthusiasm for yew hedges, however, was even greater and more engrossing than his enthusiasm for box ones.
The Summons
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One thing is sure: the interest she takes in her little neighbor is getting to be more engrossing than ever.
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
13
The landlady was alone, and with no more engrossing occupation than the ironing of some linen she had recently washed.
The Odd Women
14
Yet between father and daughter in the security of an inner chamber there not unnaturally arise topics of more engrossing interest.
Kai Lung's Golden Hours
15
The only pastime we know more engrossing than reading something one has written oneself is secretly watching someone else read it.
The new yorker
16
They are met with a very stern warning -in Afrikaans, may we add, making the whole interchange even more engrossing.
The South African
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United Kingdom
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