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If his mind was occupied with anything now, it was only with questions, whether they would find anything in the Kolpensky marsh, how Laska would compare with Krak, and how he would shoot to-day.
The words he had used when he said he was acting justly in a negative sense occupied his mind.
She studied also from books and from technical papers all the subjects with which Vronsky was occupied, so that he often came straight to her with questions about agriculture, architecture, and sometimes even horsebreeding or sport.
His affairs, which occupied and absorbed him more and more, progressed excellently.
There, on his estate, feeling that he was in his right place, he was never in a hurry to go anywhere and was always occupied.
'I really began to write a book on agriculture, but being occupied with the chief instrument in agriculture, the labourer,' said Levin with a blush, 'I involuntarily arrived at quite unexpected results.'
Levin attributed this to his own worth, not knowing that Metrov, who had exhausted the matter with all his intimates, was particularly pleased to speak about it to any fresh person, and, in general, willingly spoke to everybody about the subject with which he was occupied and which was not yet clear to himself.
He passed among the tables, which were nearly all occupied, surveying the guests.
'But she has a child; I suppose she is occupied with her?' said Levin..'I think you see in every woman only a female, une couveuse!
[A broody hen.] necessarily occupied with children if at all!' said Oblonsky.
All these conversations were about matters he would never have occupied himself with had he been in the country, but here they were very interesting.
The dreams and memories of his mother which, after their interview, had made him ill, no longer occupied him.
Now that's true!'With these thoughts, which occupied her so that she even forgot to think of her troubles, she arrived at the porch of their house.
In Society, now particularly occupied with something else, absolute indifference reigned.
His position was the more painful because, having finished his book, he no longer had any literary work such as had previously occupied the greater part of his time.
When he returned to the country in June, he went back to his ordinary occupations – husbandry, intercourse with the peasants and with his neighbours, management of his house and of his sister's and brother's affairs, which were entrusted to him, relations with his wife and relatives, cares about his baby, and a new hobby – beekeeping, which he took up with enthusiasm that spring – occupied all his time.
These matters interested him, not because he justified them to himself by any general theories as he had done previously; on the contrary, being now on the one hand disenchanted by the ill-success of his former occupations for the general welfare, and on the other hand too much occupied with his own thoughts and by the mass of affairs that overwhelmed him from all sides, he quite abandoned all calculation of public utility, and these matters interested him only because it seemed to him that he had to do what he was doing, and could not act otherwise.
A single idea occupied his head--the empty head of a workman without work and without lodging--the hope that the cold would be less keen after sunrise.
The single room that occupied the first floor was drowned in a thick darkness which seemed to overwhelm with its weight the sleep of the beings whom one felt to be there in a mass, with open mouths, overcome by weariness.
The glass door was open; one could perceive the lobby of a landing, a sort of recess in which the father and the mother occupied a fourth bed, against which they had been obliged to install the cradle of the latest coiner, Estelle, aged scarcely three months.
He did not reply, being occupied in looking on the ground for his leather belt.
Down below, Catherine had at first occupied herself with the fire, which was burning in the iron grate, flanked by two ovens.
In the midst of the white steam and the whistling of the escapes a stoker was occupied in piling up one of the furnaces, the heat of which could be felt as far as the threshold; and the young man was approaching glad of the warmth, when he met a new band of colliers who had just arrived at the pit.
Separated by planks, hooked on to retain the fallen coal, they each occupied about four metres of the seam, and this seam was so thin, scarcely more than fifty centimetres thick at this spot, that they seemed to be flattened between the roof and the wall, dragging themselves along by their knees and elbows, and unable to turn without crushing their shoulders.
Madame Rasseneur, occupied with serving customers, asked him to wait a minute, when she would show him his room, where he could clean himself.
A gardener and his wife were occupied with the vegetables, the fruit, the flowers, and the poultry-yard.
And she went off, violently dragging Lénore and Henri who were occupied in picking up nut-shells from the gutter and examining them.
The two women went on relieving themselves with regard to Pierronne--a flirt, no prettier than any one else, but always occupied in looking after every freckle of her skin, in washing herself, and putting on pomade.
It had been his idea for a long time to persuade her to come up to the room which he occupied on the first story of the Estaminet Piquette, a fine room for a household, with a large bed.
He no longer restrained himself; he stepped over the beams, for those two were too much occupied now to be disturbed.
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