(1) He told us an engrossing story.

(2) He is an engrossing subject for a book.

(3) Take your mind off it by engrossing yourself in a good book.

(4) This engrossing spectacle fascinates the predator who may eventually devour the tail, although it has little nutritional value.

(5) Walton is convincingly engrossing, and an elegant and forceful stylist.

(6) Edicts were issued against engrossing the market.

(7) It might soon have ripened into that engrossing feeling.

(8) Business was engrossing him so.

(9) A dateless bargain to engrossing death!

(10) What had been the engrossing world had dissolved into an uninteresting outer dumb - show.

(11) He was methodical in his research, engrossing himself in Hellenic dramas and Norse mythology.

(12) Engrossing fables of insights are exploited to embellish his essays and to persuade the emperor.

(13) The act of engrossing or the state of being engrossed.

(14) An engrossing task story.

(15) They both thought of me, even at that engrossing time.

(16) Few things in life are engrossing as a good fight between highly trained and skilled adversaries.

(17) The trick, Foer says, is to adopt a process known as "elaborative encoding", which involves converting information, such as a shopping list, into a series of "engrossing visual images".

(18) The arc of this rich and engrossing book matches Mr Mukherjee's personal evolution as an oncologist, beginning on the first day of his hospital residency.

(19) Norman writes with delicacy about a much-trampled-on history in this engrossing book.

(20) Fifty years later, it provides a remarkably smooth and engrossing ride to its tragic destination.

(21) The pages that follow chart my peregrinations through the engrossing world of pentecostalism.

(22) But the best stories in this collection are a completely engrossing verbal assault[ ], challenging in their glaring clarity and uncompromising conclusions.

(23) Seal with a righteous kiss a dateless bargain to engrossing death!

(24) I sat, a model of patience, trying to attract his absorbed attention from its engrossing speculation.

(25) The statue in front of me is a small painted wooden figure of the god Osiris, just over half a metre high, in a glass case in one of the first rooms of this engrossing exhibition.

(26) But his eminence as a valetudinarian now made him an object of engrossing interest, and Mrs.