Example Sentences

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The shell of her old self-engrossment cracked, and the call of a wider life came to her.

From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine

And if a touch of the shadows on Nattie's face sometimes crept over his own, she, in her self-engrossment, did not observe it.

From Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Thayer, Ella Cheever

Mr. Smith still continued to hum broken snatches of an air, twisting the screws of his instrument with complete self-engrossment, the while.

From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry

Perhaps that was just it; they had always something to do, something outside of themselves,—in their honest, earnest lives there was little to tempt them to a frivolous self-engrossment.

From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

Then, gradually, into his self-engrossment there penetrated a conviction that all was not well between his father and his mother.

From Dangerous Days by Rinehart, Mary Roberts