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BUSILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a busy manner
Example:
they were busily engaged in buying souvenirs
Classified under:
Pertainym:
busy (actively or fully engaged or occupied)
Context examples:
I followed with lagging step, and thoughts busily bent on discovering a means of extrication; but he himself looked so composed and so grave also, I became ashamed of feeling any confusion: the evil—if evil existent or prospective there was—seemed to lie with me only; his mind was unconscious and quiet.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
My aunt and Agnes were there, busily making some little extra comforts, in the way of dress, for the children.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"I think you would if you had Laurie for a pupil. I shall be very sorry to lose him next year," said Mr. Brooke, busily punching holes in the turf.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But her mind was so busily engaged, that she did not always know when she was silent.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Of Elinor's distress, she was too busily employed in measuring lengths of worsted for her rug, to see any thing at all; and calmly continuing her talk, as soon as Marianne disappeared, she said, Upon my word, I never saw a young woman so desperately in love in my life!
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Now and again a peaty amber colored stream rippled across their way, with ferny over-grown banks, where the blue kingfisher flitted busily from side to side, or the gray and pensive heron, swollen with trout and dignity, stood ankle-deep among the sedges.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I never did in my days behold anything like Mowcher as she stood upon the dining table, intensely enjoying this refreshment, rubbing busily at Steerforth's head, and winking at me over it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She had not much time for repining, however, for the three young girls were busily employed in 'having a good time'.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
She was busily searching through the neighbourhood for a proper situation for her daughter, and, without knowing or considering what their income might be, rejected many as deficient in size and importance.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Marianne entered the house with a heart swelling with emotion from the consciousness of being only eighty miles from Barton, and not thirty from Combe Magna; and before she had been five minutes within its walls, while the others were busily helping Charlotte to show her child to the housekeeper, she quitted it again, stealing away through the winding shrubberies, now just beginning to be in beauty, to gain a distant eminence; where, from its Grecian temple, her eye, wandering over a wide tract of country to the south-east, could fondly rest on the farthest ridge of hills in the horizon, and fancy that from their summits Combe Magna might be seen.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
