How To Use Busily In A Sentence
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Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction.
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These are complete miniatures of the parents and will soon busily be eating brine shrimp.
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Even analysts who have been busily downgrading tech stocks tend to characterize the rout as a correction, not a long-term trend.
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The building is packed with people busily engaged in conversation.
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Next to her, hands working dexterously on a customer's head, another woman is busily putting the finishing touches to a ‘straightback’ hairstyle.
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The Major government, achieving the only things that matter – stable prices, rising employment and bouyant inward investment – would have been recognised as a success but for the running internal revolt that she busily inflamed.
Letters: Bringer of division and bitterness
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Even the fish appeared to be experiencing difficulties swimming against the current; and the site was abuzz in action, as jacks, snappers and groupers busily swarmed about.
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Then he busily flicks through the university's Life Sciences prospectus in search of inspiration.
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Let us assume that the railways, mines, and the leading "trusts" are nationalized, public utilities municipalized, and the national and local governments busily engaged on canals, roads, forests, deserts, and swamps.
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement
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I quickly dressed and hurried downstairs to find my mother busily preparing breakfast, after which I was given my big present.
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For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacking and laying out our property to the best advantage.
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The currency markets are busily marking sterling down against both the dollar and the euro in anticipation of early action.
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Also, when Dembski is wielding his equations, he gets to play the part of the hard scientist busily correcting the errors of those soft-headed biologists.
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There was; and, after being "frisked" for weapons, he went busily to work.
First Lensman
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Inside, 30 young Richmond residents busily cut fabric and pin patterns to red and black felt.
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Meanwhile Smudgelet and I spent a fun-filled quiet afternoon while grandad slept busily constructing a model aeroplane.
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It reminded me of Florence in August, the big central maidan, or square, crammed with rug and souvenir shops whose owners were busily dickering with foreign tourists.
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They are not shy birds and may allow close views as they busily feed.
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People kill pig to kill sheep, busily preparing a Spring Festival belly-worship.
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Mom was busily cooking, but of course, Muriel couldn't bring herself to soil her hands.
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He was busily engaged; or so he said.
North and South
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The fourth day out, I think (we were then working down the east side of the Gulf of Siam, tack for tack, in light winds and smooth water) -- the fourth day, I say, of this miserable juggling with the unavoidable, as we sat at our evening meal, that man, whose slightest movement I dreaded, after putting down the dishes ran up on deck busily.
The Secret Sharer
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She was trying to pay attention to what her host was saying, but she was being distracted by the fairies busily unknotting her tangled hair.
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A well-dressed man was busily taking photographs and making notes.
Times, Sunday Times
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The morning went by pretty busily until about lunchtime when I got a call from the people publishing my book.
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While the maid helped Freda off with her wraps, Floyd Vanderlip replenished the fire; and by the time the maid had withdrawn to an inner room, his head over the stove, he was busily thawing out his burdened upper lip.
Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women
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Now it's Dominic who hovers selfconsciously, scribbling busily on a yellow legal pad.
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Jake was busily slicing the air with his daggers at unseeable speeds.
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Police, busily performing their cursory searches of every person, will therefore probably miss John's explosives.
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There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard.
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The man had his back to her and was busily arranging mugs on a crooked wooden shelf.
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When the freshly minted, not yet coronated king all duded up in his royal dress comes back to see his family, they are busily packing for the move to the palace.
David A. Davis: Why 'Homage'? The Story Of Epiphany
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Assuming a look of bland courtesy, Jane led the way toward a separate room at the far end of the cadjan dominated by a long table where several young Ceylonese women were busily working.
A Covert Affair
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Many houses were flooded, and the villagers were busily employed in devising means to keep the water out.
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I hope 2006 will see us busily engaged in a new endeavour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Miss Gwynne waited until she heard Mr Prothero come down from his wife's room, calling busily for Owen, who was in the wheat-field, and telling him to go and fetch Dr Richards.
Gladys, the Reaper
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The music is a sophisticated meshing of guitars, busily efficient rhythms and electronica.
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It's a very modern city, with very pretty people in very pretty and cute clothes walking busily around.
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they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs
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And thus, kneeling upon the flower-sprent turf hand in hand and with heads reverently bowed, they were wed, while the six outlaws stared in silent awe and the meek ass cropped the grass busily.
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
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The doctor worked busily beneath the blinding lights of the delivery room.
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In Davos this week, Ms. Chua shuttled busily from one klieg-lit event to another, as much in media demand as any penurious head of state or gauzy movie star.
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The Russian Central Bank has been busily buying dollars, which keeps the ruble artificially low.
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Paul's letter to the Colossians offers one other bit of advice that should bring us up short in 2012 when we find ourselves busily packing away plans for revenge or plotting ways to get even.
Reverend William E. Flippin, Jr.: It's Time To Lose Our Luggage
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It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
Could Someone Please Explain This To Me ?
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Students and their religion teachers are busily preparing for the forthcoming opening mass.
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Annie, who was busily arranging white votive candles into a circle in the middle of the floor, laughed.
CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 6: RING OF LIGHT
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The ski patrol had left a man there and he was busily trying to shoo away the sightseers who were crowding in.
SNOWJOB
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E. g., the child is playing busily with pasteboard boxes; the dog begins to bark outside of the house; the child listens and says _aua_.
The Mind of the Child, Part II The Development of the Intellect, International Education Series Edited By William T. Harris, Volume IX.
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Local drama group The Sliabh Luachra Players is busily rehearsing its next production, which is the comedy entitled A Country Dressmaker.
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His colleagues, meanwhile, were busily scheming to get rid of him.
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There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard.
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The doctor worked busily beneath the blinding lights of the delivery room.
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The birds were in full song in the trees, busily making nests or feeding young.
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Beneath a stunted row an tree the group was busily engaged, perhaps feasting on a rabbit carcase.
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Today the studio is filled with the clatter of sewing machines and the voices of dozens of tailors and Masai beaders busily working on brightly colored leathers and suedes.
Style Out of Africa
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Regulars have wandered in from the pool table by the door, the annoying drunk has stopped yammering and approached the stage for a last minute autograph, and Jolie's mother is busily catering to a line at the merchandise table.
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Even analysts who have been busily downgrading tech stocks tend to characterize the rout as a correction, not a long-term trend.
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Coniston folk are busily mining their pockets for coppers in a bid to save one million pennies to install disabled facilities at the village's public toilet.
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Peter was busily mixing bologna and Fritos in his sandwich when he scanned the area, finally raising his eyebrows and shaking his head at something behind me.
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State Department of Commerce and Insurance spokesman Chris Garrett said Monday that some staffers worked through the weekend and still were "busily" taking calls.
The Memphis Daily News
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Th en one day he found Malcolm busily reworking designs for small, non-rigid airships, with Admiral Pike.
SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
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The two teenage girls were busily engaged on the loom.
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No wonder the students are now revising busily and everyone is keen to impress their businesslike attitude and the desire for foreign investment upon any foreigner who will listen.
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And so, while widespread job cuts and the soaring cost of basics such as food and fuel are making life impossibly tough for many thousands of people on the breadline, footloose bankers and hedge fund managers are busily arguing that the 50p top tax rate is such an imposition that they're considering upping sticks and moving to Switzerland.
It is time to mind the gap (again)
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Chiefs of Departments sat at their desks, concentrated upon problems or at ease, according to the demands of the moment; televisotypes and recorders flashed busily but silently; calmly efficient men and women went wontedly about the all-embracing business of Triplanetary's space-pervading Secret Service.
Triplanetary
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And, sure enough, there on the deck is a guy is a brilliant, somewhat unworldly professor, busily sketching a design for a new lifeboat as the smoke billows in larger and larger clouds.
Other Stuff « Gerry Canavan
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There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard.
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Thus far, you have an FTP client and a shell busily tidying up your home directory.
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This week, politicians have been busily dissing opinion polls.
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Written at a time when busily contrapuntal late-baroque composition was giving way to the pared-down elegance of the emergent Classical style, Gretry's opera-comique occupies an intriguing middle ground.
Music review: Opera Lafayette's 'Le Magnifique'
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And lastly there is the Medium school, which, choosing the moment when the wasp is busily engaged, presses it down gently and firmly into the marmalade, so that the last spoonfuls of the dish are not so much a fruit product as a kind of entomological preserve.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920
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The doctor worked busily beneath the blinding lights of the delivery room.
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On a recent day, the squawking penguins were busily finding partners, preparing nests and waddling about the mating grounds.
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In their pad—surrounded by maps of the ancient lagoon, Mac computers, essays by Le Corbusier and building-code books, the two partners are busily working on a plan to turn the quiet island into an albergo diffuso , a hotel spread throughout the village.
Awakening the Sleepy Island of Burano
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Franks was busily engaged in a damage limitation exercise in Washington.
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Each time, they reinvented themselves and busily set off on a brand new mission.
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A fat woman in a red and beige dress busily fanned herself while her male escort gazed longingly at the other women when he knew his wife was busy eyeing the young men.
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The training session had finished and a handful of players were still out there busily signing autographs.
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Tiga stengah," he cried after each splash and pause, gathering the line busily for another cast.
Youth And Two Other Stories
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On that bright, frosty January day, people were busily bustling about under the broad glass dome of the Taurida Palace.
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The currency markets are busily marking sterling down against both the dollar and the euro in anticipation of early action.
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Behind the Irish coach, the camera pans over familiar ex-players all contributing, rather than administrators busily filling in their expenses slips.
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The children had busily gathered the small red fruit, and strung it upon long bents of grass, to keep it as a dessert to the dinner they were going to eat in the woods.
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Members are now busily preparing for the Annual Exhibition, which will be held this year from July 23rd to August 14th at An Leabharlann.
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The little replicators are now all "slaved" -- no longer running loose but under tight control -- and they scurry about busily; the astonishing sharp shadows and black sky still delight him.
Mother Of Storms
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Banks are busily designing privately placed securities that exploit the many available tax loopholes.
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The world was busily working to protect itself from the consequences of the Y2K bug with a lot of coding and a lot of hardware.
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Serious microbicidal nacimientos have busily proven reported when nephrotoxic mencionados of mid months were constently swiched by nephrologic children.
Wii-volution
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The women were busily comparing notes on the queen's outfit.
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Down in Tattersall's enclosure, Austin Dartmouth Glenn passed two hot bank notes to a bookmaker who stuffed them busily into his satchel without looking and issued a ticket to win on Spotted Tulip at eight to one in the first.
The Elvis Latte
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He was busily engaged repairing his bike.
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Once again this weekend, with a predictability that might be noteworthy were it not so dreadful, the country is busily tearing itself apart as the rest of the world looks on in agonised bemusement.
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I'm not sure how much I told her - children at that age tend to be loyal to their backgrounds, however dysfunctional - but I do recall busily beating up dolls in her office.
Integral Options Cafe
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Looters were busily helping themselves to the weapons.
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One Saturday morning, Roger was busily working on his car.
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Madie and Cohen are busily fighting, but not with words.
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Seated in front of what had been the bar, Morgan was busily keying in on the computer.
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The doctor worked busily beneath the blinding lights of the delivery room.
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A wind-up clock ticked busily from the kitchen counter.
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Will and Joe were busily employed in clearing out all the furniture.
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While the West is busily burning itself to the ground, these guys are busy ‘binding the spirit’ of the Blessed Virgin and fiddling around with other time-wasting junk.
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Gallows were erected on hills throughout the English border counties, and put busily to work.
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I just picked up my new sandals from the shoemaker (a little hut by the side of the road, with two men busily hammering and sewing and glueing).
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Every ounce of humour and flavour has been busily vacuumed out of the movie, leaving behind an under-par heist and a blandly unexciting adventure in ersatz-style.
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On the eve of the festa every man, woman, cat, dog, and chicken was busily running hither and yon.
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Rowena snatched up a box of staples and, as busily as she could, tried to reload her stapler, only to find that the staples were the wrong size.
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Dodging between the vinyl booths is Luis Valencia, busily attacking a pile of crumbs with his 3M carpet sweeper.
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She had her head down and was busily writing out the words that I had asked her to write.
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Even analysts who have been busily downgrading tech stocks tend to characterize the rout as a correction, not a long-term trend.
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Berlioz has been here since Sunday, and is busily engaged conducting rehearsals for the performance of his "Trilogie Sacree" ( "L'Enfance du Christ") and his "Symphonic Phantastique," including the second part thereof, which he calls a monodrame lyrique.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
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Super-smart eggheads are busily working to perfect cars that run on batteries, and ways to lock carbon dioxide away underground.
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So it happened that when Missou arrived a few minutes later he found this pair of gentlemen, who were about to flee for their lives, busily inditing what McWilliams had termed facetiously billets-doux.
Wyoming, a Story of the Outdoor West
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They were busily 'unhaling' the rick, that is, stripping off the thatch before beginning to throw down the sheaves; and while this was in progress Izz and Tess, with the other women-workers, in their whitey-brown pinners, stood waiting and shivering, Farmer Groby having insisted upon their being on the spot thus early to get the job over if possible by the end of the day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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State Department of Commerce and Insurance spokesman Chris Garrett said Monday that some of the office staff worked through the weekend and is still "busily" taking calls.
Kingsport Times News - Daily 5
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Round the engine and at the starting-place of the trolleys was a busy crowd: lean and bronzed Canadians; women in leather breeches and coats, busily measuring and marking; a team of horses showing silvery white against the purple of the hill; and everywhere the German prisoner lads, mostly quite young and of short stature.
Harvest
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But that arrow would be a peculiar concept to a Buddhist monk who practises mindful immersion in the present, rather than busily filling his electronic calendar, and his future, with appointments.
Stop the clock: time shouldn't be tied to timepieces
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I’ve been busily blandishing Mike behind the scenes into gracing us again with his insights on comedy writing; since I’m a champion author-blandisher, I suspect that I shall succeed.
Author! Author! » Blog Archive » Speaking of dialogue revision, part III: avert your eyes, children
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But there's such a thing as having everything too well sorted out by half, a fly caught in amber when it should still be zizzing busily around.
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His colleagues, meanwhile, were busily scheming to get rid of him.
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As they drive through the countryside, Evan and Zora pass a construction site where a bulldozer busily moves dirt around.
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He is busily carving slices of meat from the carcass of a multi-legged Chaos Spawn.
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Already, the company is busily building up that practice.
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All this time, I was busily working, unreeving the port buntline.
The Ghost Pirates
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There were more than 2,000 distilleries in Ireland at one point, all busily trying to keep up with the world's thirst for Irish spirit.
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Well, fermentation is nothing less than single-celled yeast fungi busily reproducing - and turning sugar to ethanol in the process.
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But while the imperial commander was wasting his time in comfortable winter quarters, the fugitive king busily employed himself in raising an army.
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They moved about busily, stepping high and poking under the vegetation with their long beaks.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the underbrush, where the deerberry showed hectic blotches, a squirrel worked busily, completing its winter store, while in the slanting sun rays a tawny butterfly, like a wind-blown, loosened tiger lily, danced its last mad dance with death.
The Voice of the People
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Soon direct action civil rights protesters were busily working with the administration to register voters.
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I was busily preparing for their arrival.
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The transition year students are currently busily working away on the show with the full support of their teachers.
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Zoe, when she found she could no longer have all the conversation to herself, stretched herself on the sofa, where she appeared to be busily employed in cutting the leaves of her new book, but from time to time, she contrived to throw such glances upon poor Everhard as perfectly bewildered him, and contributed not a little to reduce him to that state of passiveness which is the perfection of a good listener; Gifford thought he had never met with such a good one before!
Zoe: The History of Two Lives
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So the head carpenter and all his journeymen and apprentices began their work; and for a good while afterward there they were busily employed hewing out the timbers and making a great clatter with their hammers, until the new ship, which was called the Argo, seemed to be quite ready for sea.
Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls
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They moved about busily, stepping high and poking under the vegetation with their long beaks.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soon direct action civil rights protesters were busily working with the administration to register voters.
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He busily scampered up-and-down the left wing while he was on the pitch and sent in a number of teasing crosses that caused untold trouble in the home defence.
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Once a drop of yellow mango juice fell on his loin-cloth and he scratched the stain busily for several minutes.
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In an area where just 40 years ago ships were being launched and cranes busily loading and unloading vessels of all sorts, a new city district is being developed.
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Two men busily scrubbed dingy, white plastic chairs, while another mopped soapy water off the tiled floor.
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The spot where the scientist had lain curled, busily taking photographs and taking notes, is preempted by the pilot.
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The Roosevelt administration appreciated the efforts of the Hays Office, which was busily purifying Hollywood films according to the Motion Picture Production Code.
A Renegade History of the United States
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McConnell appeared with two women MSPs, busily at work in his campaign HQ.
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We've been busily buzzing around the city on weekends, perusing the papers and walking around the city, looking at potential apartments.
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Just a few hundred yards down the road, workmen are busily winching the last of the mangled passenger carriages off the tracks at the site of North Yorkshire's worst rail disaster.
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The government, picturing hordes of revolutionaries busily tunnelling like moles all over Russia, was driven to unusual measures.
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Herbert, who had been playing as busily as any of his cousins, began to notice that the cockatoo was a good deal afraid of the airy soap bubbles -- especially when they lighted on his back -- and so he took him off his perch as quietly as possible, not to disturb the game, and carried him away, to place him beside Mrs. Polly.
The Cockatoo's Story
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Imagine a country where instead of rooting out discrimination, many policy makers are busily blaming women for their disproportionate poverty.
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It is still busily at work.
Times, Sunday Times
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Down in Tattersall's enclosure, Austin Dartmouth Glenn passed two hot bank notes to a bookmaker who stuffed them busily into his satchel without looking and issued a ticket to win on Spotted Tulip at eight to one in the first.
The Elvis Latte
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In Caracas, the elected president is a Castroite who earlier attempted a beer-hall putsch and is busily immiserating his middle class.
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The population was busily building a defence perimeter to bar the Russians.
Times, Sunday Times
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Across the alley three men sat on the floor in an open room beside lathes and other machine shop equipment, each one busily manufacturing a gun.
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Although Beijing publicly continues to rally against protectionism, China's provinces are busily erecting internal barriers.
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Or we turn on the TV and find Maury or Sally busily making over some woman who looks too much like a frump or a tramp.
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Drug companies are working busily to develop new therapies based on this knowledge. "
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They are not shy birds and may allow close views as they busily feed.
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Mrs. Reynolds proceeded on to her own workroom where Mrs. Darcy's maid was busily mending one of her mistress ' finer winter gowns.
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Small children were busily searching for perfect samples of fallen leaves to collect.
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We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight.
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The polytechnic was busily being renamed, and at considerable expense, when the new name was suddenly dropped.
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Many houses were flooded, and the villagers were busily employed in devising means to keep the water out.
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I glanced around at the rest of the family, forks in the left hand, knives in the right, busily pushing food onto their forks with their knives.
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There seemed, somehow, to be a look of content and capableness about those heads bent so busily over the stitching.
Emma McChesney and Co.
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A colleague and friend of mine is busily marking up a year planner wallchart with a bunch of coloured felt-tip pens.
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A colleague and friend of mine is busily marking up a year planner wallchart with a bunch of coloured felt-tip pens.
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The traditional summer holiday season finds many companies busily marketing a wide variety of products to consumers with money to spend.
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For the next fortnight Aquarian Venus busily stretches your social horizons, whirling and swirling you through various, multifarious, interesting new possibilities.
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The two saleswomen were busily trying to keep up with the demand.
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A wind-up clock ticked busily from the kitchen counter.
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Now that the media is busily engaged in the scrub cycle, Forbes' will no longer be an unexamined life.
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The ski patrol had left a man there and he was busily trying to shoo away the sightseers who were crowding in.
SNOWJOB
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They moved about busily, stepping high and poking under the vegetation with their long beaks.
Times, Sunday Times
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When we mention tasting, we immediately think of enologists with their tastevins and of monks in their monasteries busily perfecting their beer or cheese-making techniques between prayers.
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Where flowers had formerly held forth with a cheerful kaleidoscope of petals, plants were now busily setting seeds.
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At a contested carcass, they busily haul off one load of meat after another and hide it by burying it and camouflaging it with debris so that it is totally removed from view.
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While their leaves are still green and busily trying to feed the bulb, the tree has put on a full canopy and is stealing all the light.
Times, Sunday Times
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We were on our second day, descended a hill when we spotted four redbilled oxpeckers riding a white rhino, busily probing folds of skin, ears and even nostrils for ticks, their primary food source.
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Toyota and Honda are busily rolling out hybrid cars.
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They were all very much surprised a little later, however, to discover him working away on the tent with his knife, and, to their great disgust, they observed that he was busily engaged in cutting out all the bobbinet windows and in ripping the front of the tent open so that it was precisely like any other tent!
The Young Alaskans in the Rockies
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At one level, this is a political opportunity opposition parties are busily exploiting.
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At a contested carcass, they busily haul off one load of meat after another and hide it by burying it and camouflaging it with debris so that it is totally removed from view.
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Some of the assistance might come from a passel of supposedly independent satellite fundraising and voter turnout groups busily moving into the state.
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Suppose that during a visit someone notices a man behind a curtain busily working controls.
A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung
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They were busily "unhaling" the rick, that is, stripping off the thatch before beginning to throw down the sheaves; and while this was in progress Izz and Tess, with the other women-workers, in their whitey-brown pinners, stood waiting and shivering, Farmer Groby having insisted upon their being on the spot thus early to get the job over if possible by the end of the day.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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Such is the density of the population, all busily exuberant, you sometimes struggle to pick out the main action.
Times, Sunday Times
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Media outlets overlooked the irony of the Dalai Lama's well-received affirmation of church-state separation at a time when potential presidential candidates around the country are busily burnishing their Christian bonafides.
Nicole Neroulias: The Dalai Lama And The Separation Of Church And State In America
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Jupiter asked, busily tying one end of the rope to the corner of the minaret.
THREE IN ONE
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By the 1980s plans for a temple were under way and he and his students worked busily on silk screens, carvings and decorations to fill it.
Times, Sunday Times
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Written at a time when busily contrapuntal late-baroque composition was giving way to the pared-down elegance of the emergent Classical style, Gretry's opera-comique occupies an intriguing middle ground.
Music review: Opera Lafayette's 'Le Magnifique'
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These people see Tasmania as one big park - and it salves their consciences to call for its protection while busily consuming the planet's resources in their daily lives.
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Banks are busily designing privately placed securities that exploit the many available tax loopholes.
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They were busily sawing the tree when Billy said he'd have to go to the bushes.
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We begin this week on Outcast Island, where Dylan is busily spearing fish.
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The noise now for a short time subsided, and nothing was heard but the low, broken growls of the cannibal troop, as they busily craunched the bones, and tore the flesh on which they were raking their horrid feast.
The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont
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You can see the workers are busily loading up cars.
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General Grant was busily engaged in fortifying his new position at Hatcher's Run.
Foreign and Colonial Intelligence
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Assuming a look of bland courtesy, Jane led the way toward a separate room at the far end of the cadjan dominated by a long table where several young Ceylonese women were busily working.
A Covert Affair
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They sat quietly, busily observing the happenings in the hall.
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Veritas has been busily trying to build out a server software management portfolio to complement its storage applications.
