Busy Sentence Examples
It's a large and busy hotel.
He was probably too busy with school to pay attention to politics.
It was a warm late afternoon as I stood out on the sidewalk and looked up at the six massive columns towering above another busy and impressive train station.
Cade had been busy this morning.
Moscow is chiefly busy with gossip, he continued.
As busy as she was, time had to be set aside for play with Destiny.
I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.
On her next visit to the ranch, Adrienne arrived to find Mrs. Marsh busy cooking lunch.
He followed the man with eyes as green as the moss in the corner of his room down the busy hallways, unaffected by the men who spit on him or shoved him as he went.
It's too busy at Bird Song and I've been—goofing off all morning.
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Sitting beside her in the car, I describe what I see from the window--hills and valleys and the rivers; cotton-fields and gardens in which strawberries, peaches, pears, melons, and vegetables are growing; herds of cows and horses feeding in broad meadows, and flocks of sheep on the hillside; the cities with their churches and schools, hotels and warehouses, and the occupations of the busy people.
Beside the nurse who was busy collecting equipment, there was a man in a suit standing by the door.
He returned to the Sanctuary, to the Oracle, who was busy scribbling.
They may be too busy running.
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Christmas week was a very busy one here, too.
They were too busy knocking on Fred's door before he'd even risen to book their reservations for Cyberville.
She was too traumatized and he too busy to deal with another source of drama.
I'm a little busy with real law enforcement.
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But I suppose he is very busy now.
He is very busy with Tessa tonight, do you think?
I was too busy trying to stay alive.
Gabriel left for the Caribbean Sanctuary, where the book possessed by a long dead Oracle was busy scribbling notes about the Present.
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This year is going to be a very busy one for Teacher and myself.
After passing a chasseur regiment and in the lines of the Kiev grenadiers--fine fellows busy with similar peaceful affairs--near the shelter of the regimental commander, higher than and different from the others, Prince Andrew came out in front of a platoon of grenadiers before whom lay a naked man.
He was always busy and always felt in a state of mild and cheerful intoxication.
The whole summer, from spring sowing to harvest, he was busy with the work on his farm.
Six-month old Dandy nickered to his mother, but Casper was busy talking to Princess and Dawn.
For a while she was going to be far too busy.
Betsy was busy on her computer when I entered our kitchen the following morning.
The phone was as busy as the Bird Song household this Monday morning.
He.s sort of busy fighting demons.
I just been too darn busy!
No wonder you were so busy.
I've been pretty busy.
He tried to call her back but only heard a busy signal.
I was busy again.
It looks like you've been busy.
He was busy every day.
But scientists have been busy sequencing all manner of things.
They were both so busy as to seem not to notice one another.
A coloring book and crayons kept her busy while they worked and talked.
Boston is great but it's incredibly busy all the time.
The third room was for Howie who was busy on the telephone when four of us arrived.
They've been busy lately.
She went to the main strip, where the pubs were not yet busy in the early evening.
Then he added, "I might be a bit too busy."
His place is as busy as a country doctor's waiting room in flu season.
It was Friday, a week day, and the height of the season, so he had expected most of the town's folk to be too busy for political small talk.
While Cynthia didn't explain her decision to fit God and church into their busy Sunday morning schedule, once again she dressed for church and Dean dutifully followed suit.
Other than the situation with Lori and the fact that it was a busy day, nothing was different than any other day.
Crushed, she realized she had six hours to keep Jade busy in the hopes he didn.t kill her.
I been busy surfing the web.
They were so busy with wedding arrangements that Carmen couldn't afford time to miss him - but somehow she managed to do it anyway.
If you're too busy to take her on the honeymoon, let me know.
I've been too busy rescuing you.
I don't mean to be insensitive, but I was so busy today that I didn't eat lunch.
A sleepless night and a busy day at work did little for her disposition.
His own literary work, nearly all of which originally appeared in its pages - sermons, stories, travels, poems - was only a byproduct of a busy life.
They had been busy at first in the other direction.
She slept fitfully between her busy thoughts, sheer exhaustion claiming her in spurts.
In short, it's a busy little beaver!
I now share my life with 14 of the little blighters who keep me very busy indeed.
The phrase " I'm too busy " simply does not exist here.
Married to Rachel, he is kept busy with four children.
In fact, on closer inspection of the report, she had a nearly impossibly busy day.
I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in.
It has been a busy few weeks for the german supermodel.
The two young men got down their bows and arrows, and all were busy making plans for the next day.
Day after day the Harbor, the warships, and the park kept us busy thinking and feeling and enjoying....
When she is in a new place, especially an interesting place like Niagara, whoever accompanies her--usually, of course, Miss Sullivan--is kept busy giving her an idea of visible details.
Olga, go and see whether Uncle's beef tea is ready--it is almost time, she added, giving Pierre to understand that they were busy, and busy making his father comfortable, while evidently he, Pierre, was only busy causing him annoyance.
Send him to the devil, I'm busy! he shouted to Lavrushka, who went up to him not in the least abashed.
On all sides, the hussars were busy with the dragoons; one was wounded, but though his face was bleeding, he would not give up his horse; another was perched up behind an hussar with his arms round him; a third was being helped by an hussar to mount his horse.
But despite her grief, or perhaps just because of it, she took on herself all the difficult work of directing the storing and packing of their things and was busy for whole days.
It's all so... busy.
I'm not sure I have enough chores around here to keep her busy.
I was so busy following the road map I made so many years ago that I didn't notice it was outdated.
Chasing after eight or ten kids should keep her busy.
Hundreds of printed reports covered our premises like a winter blizzard making us look as busy as a toy store at Christmas.
He'd been too busy to eat again today since the sandwich she made him for breakfast.
It was busy enough; she might be able to lose him if she made it to a crowd of people.
There was no time for Cynthia to talk to her husband, who was busy serving breakfast to the late sleepers while she showed Maria, by hand communication, the upstairs chores of Bird Song.
Jennifer said nothing more for the remainder of the trip down the mountain until the Jeep finally rolled onto pavement and they entered the still busy town.
They were too busy arguing to pay attention but Dean shielded Martha and hurried the group back to the rear quarters.
He tapped the lectern on which the Oracle was busy writing in her book.
For the first week after he regained his voice, they were all so busy enjoying the return to normal life that Carmen forgot about his father.
Gabriel was too busy to answer.
His three other half brothers were already present and waiting, Erik pacing, Kiki at the table, and Tamer busy with his PDA.
The streets of Dublin were too busy for him.
Too busy doing her work, she added.
They're too busy trying to lock me up and toss the key.
He's too busy making money, I guess.
I'm really busy Thomas.
Sure. It kept you're mind so busy that you're hands didn't get a chance to write.
I'm sorry, but I was busy.
I think they're too busy with everything else right now.
In fact, he couldn't get busy at all.
The clinic and other investments were enough to keep him busy.
You've been keeping him busy with your mares until now.
You were so busy directing my life that it never occurred to you that you were being disrespectful of me.
Be warned the place's get busy between 11am to 1pm.
Yet you don't have to stay busy all day every day.
She had been brought in last night by a man who found her in a busy intersection.
We have a vacancy for a full-time receptionist - course administrator in our busy language school.
Behind the pond is a small fenced off nature reserve that is a wildlife refuge on this busy site.
Going inland, you can enjoy a quiet riverside walk away from the busy town center along the river Lym.
Henry Sellers has a somewhat unfortunate sip of sherry which keeps the somewhat underemployed local policeman, Sergeant Deegan busy.
This may be longer on busy weekends as the trains cannot wait for late passengers.
It is alleged they targeted a busy station manned by part-time retained firefighters during their eight-day walkout.
We were busy cutting out paper dolls; but we soon wearied of this amusement, and after cutting up our shoestrings and clipping all the leaves off the honeysuckle that were within reach, I turned my attention to Martha's corkscrews.
I cannot make notes during the lectures, because my hands are busy listening.
She has counted everything in the house, and is now busy counting the words in her primer.
I was never angry after that because I understood what my friends said to me, and I was very busy learning many wonderful things.
At the beginning of March, old Count Ilya Rostov was very busy arranging a dinner in honor of Prince Bagration at the English Club.
But he was so busy for whole days together that he had no time to notice that he was thinking of nothing.
A third, in the absence of opponents, between two councils would simply solicit a special gratuity for his faithful services, well knowing that at that moment people would be too busy to refuse him.
He tried to pass either in front of them or to the right or left, but there were soldiers everywhere, all with the same preoccupied expression and busy with some unseen but evidently important task.
Sonya too was busy all this time, but the aim of her efforts was quite different from Natasha's.
He was always busy, and only at night allowed himself conversation--of which he was fond--and songs.
Cossacks were crowding about a hut, busy with something.
Another section amid the regimental wagons and horses which were standing in a group was busy getting out caldrons and rye biscuit, and feeding the horses.
Willarski was a married man with a family, busy with his family affairs, his wife's affairs, and his official duties.
Sometimes it seemed to him that other people were all as pleased as he was himself and merely tried to hide that pleasure by pretending to be busy with other interests.
With the ice festival, things are pretty busy.
This will keep him busy for weeks!
Now that the busy morning activity no longer occupied Cynthia's mind, she again was visibly upset about Bird Song's latest guest, Jerome Shipton, and the penchant for trouble that surrounded his presence.
Fred O'Connor is busy making a list and checking it twice as we stand here.
Dean turned to Cynthia who tried to busy herself picking up snack dishes from Fred's evening refreshments.
I was too busy feeling sorry for myself.
Yeah, we better get busy.
Sarah skated into the kitchen, kissing them both, "Hi, look at you busy beavers."
The next three days flew by without incident - probably because they were all too busy to start any mischief.
Katie was busy sewing something for her hope chest, so Carmen grabbed her cane pole and some liver from the refrigerator, and strolled down to the pond.
Mr. Tim kept her too busy to allow her time to have her own life.
The sector specialists were busy at their workstations while two guards loitered outside the damaged entrance.
But, if it'll keep you busy … His look was doubtful.
He always took a bathing suit along on his trips but more times than not he was too busy to use them.
Hunter chuckled as they threaded their way around cluttered desks and scores of busy bodies.
I figured you'd be so busy defending the scum of the earth you wouldn't have a minute to spare.
Only David Dean had some difficulty "getting busy."
No, Dean had a lot of difficulty getting busy.
I can't be looking for them while I'm busy looking out for your hide.
They were far too busy stretching muscles and preparing for the more torturous miles that lay ahead.
Besides, we always seem too busy with our todays to do much looking back to yesterdays.
I was busy cleaning the oven.
That was usually during the winter when he wasn't so busy and had more energy.
If Alex wanted her to stay at home, at least she should have something to keep her mind and hands busy.
He was too busy looking at the scene below them.
He might have questioned why it still embarrassed her, if it hadn't been for the fact that he was busy questioning why her reaction still excited him.
Then do some advertising and keep him busy.
She'd thought it was because his brothers were busy.
He was still watching her – probably wondering what he had done to irritate her – maybe even wondering if she was upset or merely busy.
He was so busy all the time – so obsessed with something.
The office was busy.
She opened the mini blinds and looked down at the busy city six stories below.
Denton kept her busy welcoming guests until Clarissa arrived.
He was trying to keep her busy so she wouldn't have time to think about the storm.
Well, at least you know what's kept him so busy.
They ate dinner at the busy food court.
They kept to one side of the busy parking lot.
Stuttgart is the centre of the publishing trade of south Germany, and it has busy industries in everything connected with the production of books.
It was an additional misfortune for Alexius that his father should have been too busy to attend to him just as he was growing up from boyhood to manhood.
The plan came to nothing, and next year Becher was again busy at Vienna, trying to transmute Danube sand into gold, and writing his Theses chemicae veritatem transmutationis metallorum evincentes.
As the cost of the service varies in proportion to the amount of use, the toll rate is more scientific, and it has the further advantage of discouraging the unnecessary use of the instrument, which causes congestion of traffic at busy hours and also results in lines being " engaged " when serious business calls are made.
This fortress has been abandoned, and the town, which is the centre of a group of villages, is now fairly prosperous, with a bazaar of about Boo shops and a busy traffic with Seistan.
At busy stations separate tracks are sometimes appropriated to the use of light engines and empty trains, on which they may be run between the platforms and the locomotive and Loco- carriage depots.
Though a busy colliery may send off its product by the train-load to an important town, the wagons will usually be addressed to a number of different consignees at different depots in different parts of the town, and therefore the train will have to be broken up somewhere short of its destination and its trucks rearranged, together with those of other trains similarly constituted, into fresh trains for conveyance to the various depots.
Push-and-pull shunting is simple, but it is also slow, and therefore efforts have been made at busy yards where great numbers of trains are dealt with to introduce more expeditious methods.
He complains of the busy idleness in which his time was spent; but, considering the circumstances, so adverse to study, one is rather surprised that the military student should have done so much, than that he did so little; and never probably before were so many hours of literary study spent in a tent.
The temple sacrifices were still offered and worshippers were admitted; but John's catapults were busy, and priest and worshippers at the altar were killed, because Eleazar's party occupied the inner courts of the Temple.
Arles is not a busy town and its port is of little importance.
It was he who, in 1776, sketched the plan for the conquest of the Crimea which was subsequently realized; and about the same period he was busy with the socalled "Greek project," which aimed at restoring the Byzantine Empire under one of Catherine's grandsons.
At Oxford William Chillingworth was then busy with his great work, The Religion of Protestants, and it is possible that by intercourse with him Taylor's mind may have been turned towards the liberal movement of his age.
The former sought to busy him by appointing him commander-in-chief of the Army of England, the island power being now the only one which contested French supremacy in Europe.
The area of Aegean intercourse has widened and become more busy.
Midway between the seignorial cours de bourgeoisie and the privileged jurisdictions of the Italian quarter, there were two kinds of courts of a commercial character - the cours de la fonde in towns where trade was busy, and the cours de la chaine in the sea-ports.
But it is long before the death of any institution is recognized; and it was inevitable that men should busy themselves in trying to rekindle the dead embers into new life.
Her character, and still more her circumstances, made the pen very unamiably busy with her in her lifetime, the chief of many lampoons being the famous Divorce satirique, variously attributed to Agrippa d'Aubigne, Palma Cayet, and others.
Still, there is no doubt that her father's dismissal from the ministry, which followed the presentation of the Compte, and the consequent removal of the family from the busy life of Paris, were beneficial to her.
For the rest of the year navigation is stopped, though the winter months form the busy seal-killing season.
The Wrecker, an adventurous tale of American life, which mainly belonged to an earlier time, was written in collaboration with Mr Lloyd Osbourne and finally published in 1892; and towards the close of that very eventful and busy year he began The Justice Clerk, afterwards Weir of Hermiston.
The valley portion is level and contains several settlement centres, the largest of which, a busy industrial village (manufactures of cotton and paper), bears the same name as the township, and is on a branch of the Boston and Albany railroad.
Its harbour was extremely busy and the surrounding country unusually fertile.
No purely astronomical enterprise was ever carried out on so Transits of P large a scale or at so great an expenditure of money and labour as was devoted to the observations of these transits, and for several years before their occurrence the astronomers of every leading nation were busy in discussing methods of observation and working out the multifarious details necessary to their successful application.
The Waverley Market for vegetables and fruit presents a busy scene in the early morning, and is used for monster meetings and promenade and popular concerts.
Philosophy, as Haureau finely says, was the passion of the 13th century; but in the 15th humanism, art and the beginnings of science and of practical discovery were busy creating a new world, which was destined in due time to give birth to a new philosophy.
It is a busy little place with many industries, notably the manufacture of parchment.
His period of command, which lasted from May 1793 to October 1794, was very busy.
But as the German princes were either too busy or too indifferent to attack the duke, the agitation against him soon died away.
It is obvious that the results of such advances prescribe for the clinical physician methods which cannot be pursued without expert assistance; a physician engaged in busy prac- Spec;a;ism.
Thence it runs by commercial Cannon Street to the junction with Cheapside and several other busy streets.
A frost almost as severe as the memorable one of1683-1684occurred in the winter of 1 7391740, and the Thames was again the scene of a busy fair.
The naval authorities had been busy assembling and organizing the available small craft in anticipation of the operation that appeared to be imminent, and jetties damaged in the Nov.
In the latter year especially he was very busy with his pen against the Jesuits.
The Nestorian Church in Eastern Syria and Persia was under the jurisdiction of an archbishop (catholikos), who in 498 assumed the title "Patriarch of the East" and had his seat at SeleuciaCtesiphon on the Tigris, a busy trading city and a fitting centre for the great area over which the evangelizing activity of the Nestorians now extended.
In this busy commercial town, in somewhat improved pecuniary and social circumstances, he developed the main ideas of his writings.
The river Main has been dredged so as to afford heavy barge traffic with the towns of the upper Main and with the Rhine, and cargo boats load and unload alongside its busy quays.
Olmiitz is an important railway junction, and is the emporium of a busy mining and industrial district.
This is the busy season of the townsfolk.
Escoiquiz was in fact a busy and pushing member of the literary clique which looked up to Godoy as its patron.
Flensburg is a busy centre of trade and industry, and is the most important town in what was formerly the duchy of Schleswig.
In 1744 he had been very busy assisting in the negotiations for the establishment of the new "broad bottom" administration, and showed no sympathy for the Jacobite expedition in 1745.
The work of fashioning the Macedonian army occupied Philip for the next few years, whilst hid diplomacy was busy securing partisans within the states of Greece.
Solitude is advisable at first, but few people can find time amounting to ten minutes for solitary studies of this sort, so busy and so gregarious is mankind.
The etiquette of the imperial circle, scenes from the law-courts and the recitationroom, the reunions of dilettanti and philosophers, the busy life of the capital or of the municipal town, the recreations of the seaside and of the country - all these he brings vividly before our eyes.
Since that the moment of the lead touching the bottom by the sudden time the British cable-ships have been busy in all the oceans slackening in the rate at which the line ran out.
Not many words are needed to convey a tolerably adequate estimate of the character and work of the "pale thin man in mean attire," who in sickness and poverty thus completed the forty-sixth year of a busy life at the stake.
At the same time that the Neo-Platonists, like Ficino and Pico de la Mirandola, and the pantheists, whose God was little more than a reverential conception of the universe at large, and the purely worldly humanists, like Celtes and Bebel, were widely diverging each by his own particular path from the ecclesiastical Weltanschauung of the middle ages, Ulrich von Hutten was busy attacking the Curia in his witty Dialogues, in the name of German patriotism.
During the period which had elapsed since the diet of Worms the emperor had resided in Spain, busy with a series of wars, waged mainly with the king of France.'
The meeting of roads from Bath, Frome, Shaftesbury and Salisbury made Warminster a busy coaching centre.
Thirlwall's private life was happy and busy.
The work of inquisition into cases of heresy proceeded slowly in the hands of the bishops, who were too busy with other matters to find much time for sitting in judgment on theological points about which they were imperfectly informed.
Thus it happens that from Buffalo to New York City there is a chain of busy manufacturing centres along the natural highway followed by the Erie Canal and the Hudson river.
Forethought was still busy when, in accordance with instructions from Tokio, Kuroki on the 30th of April ordered the attack to begin at daybreak on the ist of May.
During the next two days the artillery were busy.
For the queen and royal family the Crimean War time was a very busy and exciting one.
The Hereward legend has been fully dealt with by him and by Professor Freeman, who observed that "with no name has fiction been more busy."
Kent, from its proximity to London, has been intimately concerned in every great historical movement which has agitated the country, while its busy industrial population has steadily resisted any infringement of its rights and liberties.
The latter were very busy and were supported by the Roman Catholic Church, which did little for the Prussian Poles and nothing for the Austrian Poles, but was active in harassing the schismatical government of Russia.
The Poles are busy in reviving their great past.
Besides being a busy natural philosopher, Boyle devoted much time to theology, showing a very decided leaning to the practical side and an indifference to controversial polemics.
De Monts, now governor of Paris, was too busy to occupy himself in the waning fortunes of the colony, and left them entirely to his associate.
As his official duties made no great demands on his time, he had abundant leisure to devote to his favourite studies, - the antiquities and topography of Scotland having thenceforth special attractions for his busy pen.
It is surrounded by rich agricultural lands, cultivated in part by Italian immigrants, and is a busy trading centre.
The busy shipping suburbs of Port Melbourne and Williamstown occupy the flat alluvial land at the mouth of the Yarra.
The town, which was founded in 1774, is a busy commercial centre standing 14 m.
The Rue Solferino, a continuation of the bridge ending at the Place de l'Hotel de Ville, is the busy street of the town; elsewhere, except on market days, the streets are quiet.
What Ontario lacks in salt water navigation is, however, made up by the busy traffic of the Great Lakes.
With the organization of Manitoba and the opening of improved communication immigrants began to move rapidly westward, and government surveyors were soon busy laying off lands in the Saskatchewan valley.
Stronsay (1159) is a busy station of the herring fishery, and is also largely under cultivation.
But he was then a busy teacher, was growing old, and suffered from a disease in the stomach for a considerable time before it proved fatal at the age of sixty-three.
Beyond these lie the fine Slottskog Park, planted with oaks, and picturesquely broken by rocky hills commanding views of the busy river and the city.
The town is situated on the Oise, on which it has a busy port.
For some years he was busy travelling in the Levant in the interests of his order, but a perusal of Calvin's Institutes revived his heretical tendencies, and he was condemned to be burnt.
When the Dogger Bank incident occurred, the possibility of operations of war being carried on within a few miles of British home ports, and amid the busy traffic of the North Sea, was brought vividly home to British minds.
It is a busy town, being the centre of a rich agricultural district and of the diamond and coal-mining industry of the north-western parts of the colony.
To secure business and to conduct his cases with adequate knowledge, he studied the forms of English law, he solicited William Strahan, the printer, "to get him employed in city causes," and he entered into social intercourse (as is noted in Alexander Carlyle's autobiography) with busy London solicitors.
The Revolution interrupted the busy flow of commissions, and Houdon took up a half-forgotten project for a statue of St Scholastica.
A busy manufacturing activity has long been united with the underground industries of Silesia, and the province in this respect is hardly excelled by any other part of Prussia.
His famous Belfast address (1874), delivered as president of the British Association, made a great stir among those who were then busy with the supposed conflict between science and religion; and in his occasional writings - Fragments of Science, as he called them, "for unscientific people" - he touched on current conceptions of prayer, miracles, &c., with characteristic straightforwardness and vigour.
It lies on the small river Drone, a tributary of the Rother, in a busy industrial district in which are numerous coal-mines, and there are iron foundries and manufactures of tools and other iron and steel goods.
The greater part of the space thus enclosed is occupied by comparatively modern suburbs and gardens of almost tropical luxuriance, strongly contrasting with the huge factories and busy port of the original city in their midst.
Hamilton Benn were busy laying a smoke screen, supported by the "Faulknor" (flying Commodore Hubert Lyne's broad pendant), "Lightfoot," "Mastiff," "Afridi," "Swift" and "Matchless."
During the winter both sides were busy in building ships.
For a quarter of the year the flocks and herds are fed on the upper pastures; but the true limit of the wealth of a district is the number of animals that can be supported during the long winter, and while one part of the population is engaged in tending the beasts and in making cheese and butter, the remainder is busy cutting hay and storing up winter food for the cattle.
Flower-beds on light soils may be dug up so as to forward the work of the coming busy spring season.
This is a busy month.
This is usually a busy month, as many crops have to be gathered, and, if hoeing is not promptly seen to, weeds are certain to give great trouble.
There can be no doubt that he was a busy intriguer, or that the king, acting on the then very generally accepted doctrine that the sovereign has a right to act for the public interest without regard to forms of law, gave orders to Antonio Perez that he was to be put out of the way.
In Friesland, finally, besides the ship canal from Harlingen to the Lauwers Zee there are canals from Leeuwarden to the Lemmer, whence there is a busy traffic with Amsterdam; and the Caspar Robles or Kolonels Diep, and the Hoendiep connect it with Groningen.
There are a busy bazaar and some old mosques.
Meanwhile the government was busy perfecting the administration of the national defences.
Many other short and anonymous works proceeded from his ever busy pen, but many are irrecoverable, and all are forgotten.
The Moslems of Sicily were busy in civil wars; Arabs fcught against Berbers, both against the African overlord.
The newer quarters, situated near the river, are laid out in the fashion of French cities, but the eastern parts of the town retain, almost unimpaired, their Oriental aspect, and in scores of narrow, tortuous streets, and busy bazaars it is easy to forget that there has been any change from the Cairo of medieval times.
In the middle ages, when Alexandria was in decay, these two towns were busy ports; with the revival of Alexandria under Mehemet Ali and the foundation of Port Said (c. 1860), their trade declined.
Thereafter Mehemet Ali threw Egypt freely open to Europeans, and a busy traffic in antiquities began, chiefly through the agency of the consuls of different powers.
Middle and Upper Egypt were less busy and prosperous in the later ages than Lower Egypt.
Cholera and fever were busy both with the North Staffordshire regiment at Gemai, whither they had been moved on its approach, and with the Egyptian troops at the front, and carried off many officers and men.
At Copenhagen his advisers were busy framing drafts of a Lex Regia Perpetua; and the one which finally won the royal favour was the famous Kongelov, or " King's Law."
Their prolonged literary activity - for some of them, like Grundtvig, were busy to the last - had a slightly damping influence on their younger contemporaries, but certain names in the next generation have special prominence.
For the next few years there was peace, the Danes being kept busy on the continent.
For about fifteen months Frederick lived in Ciistrin, busy according to the royal programme with the details of the Prussian administrative system.
In the paper which he left signed, and to which he referred in answer to the questions wherewith the busy bishops plied him, he expressed his sorrow for having assumed the royal style, and at the last moment confessed that Charles had denied to him privately, as he had publicly, that he was ever married to Lucy Walters.
From 1522 to 1524 he was busy with the translation of the Bible and in publishing commentaries.
Morris was now unceasingly busy, but he found time also for literature.
It is a busy thoroughfare, lined in its first half with magnificent new buildings, and in its second half, where it attains a width of 150 ft., with handsome villas standing in their own gardens, which give the impression rather of a fashionable summer resort than the centre of a great city.
The busy quarter of Amiens lies between the river and the railway, which for some distance follows the inner line of boulevards.
His mind, however, was also busy with the momentous problem of gravity.
A further contingent of six or seven thousand Russians had arrived on the 22nd of April; Russian engineers were busy with the fortifications along the Straits; Russian agents alone were admitted to the sultan's presence.
The symbols become longer and thinner; in fact, cease to be the script of monuments and become the script of a busy trading people.
The headache is described as splitting; delirium is of the busy type, like delirium tremens.
This phase began to give way in the irth century to a commercial and industrial renaissance, which received a great impetus from the crusading movements - themselves largely economic - and by the 14th century had made the Netherlands the factory of Europe, the Rhine a vast artery of trade, and north Italy a hive of busy cities.
But these men were not all busy over the problem of how many angels could stand on a needle-point; nor were they all dominated by the religious spirit of faith or intellectual cowardice.
The way was already cleared for the busy 12th century - the age of Louis VI.
This made Jackson Clay's lifelong enemy, and ever after kept Clay busy explaining and denying the allegation.
It was a busy and stirring time, and events occurred during it which carried within them the seeds of much future dissension.
Copper, tin and lead works are everywhere numerous in the busy valleys of north Glamorgan and in the neighbourhoods of Swansea, Neath, Cardiff and Llanelly.
While busy harvesting, they are exposed to the raids of the Bedouins (verse 9).
Itzehoe is a busy commercial place.
She was called " The Swedish Sappho," and scandal has been needlessly busy in giving point to the allusion.
The Straits of Magellan were occupied; under an American engineer, William Wheelwright, a line of steamers was started on the coast, and, by a wise measure allowing merchandise to be landed free of duty for re-exportation, Valparaiso became a busy port and trading centre; while the demand for food-stuffs in California and Australia, following upon the rush for gold, gave a strong impetus to agriculture.
The short remainder of his life was extremely busy with his professorial duties, his extensive literary occupations, and the work, which he still continued, of district-visiting as a member of the society of St Vincent de Paul.
It is a busy railway junction, and its inhabitants are engaged in agriculture, wine-growing and the manufacture of soda, matches and saltpetre.
In 1837 he became pastor in Neuendettelsau, a small and unattractive place, where his life's work was done, and which he transformed into a busy and influential community.
His pen was as busy as his voice, and in four notable pamphlets he advocated the creation of companies of commerce, the abolition of the distinction between Old and New Christians, the reform of the procedure of the Inquisition and the admission of Jewish and foreign traders, with guarantees for their security from religious persecution.
South of Unter den Linden lies the Friedrichstadt, with its parallel lines of straight streets, including the Behren-strasse - (the seat of finance) - the Wilhelmstrasse, with the palace of the imperial chancellor, the British embassy, and many government offices - the official quarter of the capital - and the busy Leipziger-strasse, running from the Potsdamer-platz to the DOnhoff-platz.
This busy and interesting period of Rabelais's life was brought to a close apparently by his introduction or reintroduction to Jean du Bellay, who, in October 1J33, passing through Lyons on an embassy to Rome, engaged Rabelais as physician.
Between Main Street and the sea is Strand Street, also a busy commercial thoroughfare.
Warburton was further kept busy by the attacks on his Divine Legation from all quarters, by a dispute with Bolingbroke respecting Pope's behaviour in the affair of Bolingbroke's Patriot King, by his edition of Pope's works (1751) and by a vindication in 1750 of the alleged miraculous interruption of the rebuilding of the temple of Jerusalem undertaken by Julian, in answer to Conyers Middleton.
It was well enough for Greeks to busy themselves with the manners, institutions and deeds of the "peoples outside."
The Pennsylvania railway has repair shops here, and among Columbia's manufactures are silk goods, embroidery and laces, iron and steel pipe, engines, laundry machinery, brushes, stoves, iron toys, umbrellas, flour, lumber and wagons; the city is also a busy shipping and trading centre.
Though in general ill-built and partly ruinous, the town possesses some fine mosques, with lofty minarets, public baths and busy bazaars.
In 1821 he was busy with electrical experiments and in 1822 with investigations of the fluids contained in the cavities of crystals in rocks.
But though the city is such a busy commercial centre, most of its industries are carried on outside municipal limits.
Each chief valley has a railway connecting a string of mining villages, and converging seaward to the busy ports of Newport, Cardiff and Barry (a town created on a sandy island by the excavation of a great dock to form an outlet for the mines).
The greater part of Manchester, all Liverpool and Birkenhead, and innumerable busy towns of medium size, which in other parts of England would rank as great centres of population, stand on this soil.
Native explorers from India first began to be busy in the Pamirs about 1860, and continued their investigations for the following fifteen years.
Meanwhile Russian explorers and Russian topographers had been equally busy from the north.
These four busy years of Swift's London life had not been entirely engrossed by politics.
Its spaciousness and free rural aspect, its old graveyards and towering elms, its great university, its cultivated society and its vicinity to humane, substantial, busy Boston, were all attractions for such a man.
He was never too busy to see a caller, to answer a letter, or to assist, by word or deed, any one that needed assiscance.
Slavonic having entirely disappeared from the sources of literature, writers and translators turned to Greek originals and for more than a century were busy translating into Rumanian the most important works of the older Fathers of the Church.
The canal of Nivernais reaches as far as Auxerre, which has a busy port and carries on boat-building.
The Fish Market, on the Albert Basin, is a busy scene in the early morning.
The city wears a prosperous and busy appearance.
Parallel to the Park Straat is the busy Noordeinde, in which is situated the royal palace.
On the opposite side of the Binnenhof is the busy square called the Plein, where all the tram-lines meet.
While propaganda and counter-propaganda were busy throughout northern and central Kurdistan, in May 1919 Sheikh Mahmud, who conceived that he had received ill-treatment at British hands in his capacity of governor of southern Kurdistan, effected a coup de main by which he filled Sulaimani town with Persian Kurd freebooters.
But he was also a busy statesman; he probably had a share in the considerable body of legislation which was enacted in Edgars reign, and is said to have encouraged him in his policy of treating Dane and Englishman with exact equality, and Of investing the one no less than the other with the highest offices in church and state.
There can be no doubt that the greater part of Williams nominees were better men than those who preceded them; his great archbishop, Lanfranc, though a busy statesman, was also an energetic reformer and a man of holy life.
The futile and thriftless yet busy and self-important king was one of those sovereigns who irritate their subjects into opposition by injudicious activity.
Meanwhile the conspirators of 1483 were busy in organizing another plan of invasion.
During 1530 Henrys agents were busy abroad making that appeal on the divorce to the universities which Cranmer had suggested.
There are numerous breweries, saw and flour mills, and manufactures of preserves, soap, candles, glass and paper, especially in the busy suburb that has sprung up on the right bank of the Urumea.
At Otes he was busy with his pen.
Living far from large towns and busy in g g Y routes of commerce, they remained primitive in all their thoughts and ways.
By autumn or October he is busy at his njalla killing the surplus reindeer bulls and curing meat for the winter.
The king was busy with the French, but gladly seized the opportunity, and gave Dermod a letter authorizing him to raise forces in England.
If we examine myths of human descent from animals, we find gods busy there, and if we try to investigate the myths of the origin of the gods, the subject gets mixed up with the mythical origins of things in general.
In the Gorham controversy of 1850, in the question of Oxford reform in 18J4, in the prosecution of some of the writers of Essays and Reviews, especially of Benjamin Jowett, in 1863, in the question as to the reform of the marriage laws from 1849 to the end of his life, in the Farrar controversy as to the meaning of everlasting punishment in 1877, he was always busy with articles, letters, treatises and sermons.
Count Romanones, desiring to educate the electors, had been busy establishing schools; but the sweeping victory of the Liberals at the polls2 was probably far more due to the fact that this was the first election held under Seor Mauras Local Administration Act, and that the ignorant electors, indignant at being forced to vote under penalty of a fine, where they did not spoil their ballot papers, voted against the Conservatives as the authors of their grievance.
In the early spring stores must be seen to and replenished where required; breeding stimulated when pollen begins to be gathered; and appliances cleaned and prepared for use during the busy season.
The arsenal and dockyard and the printing-press at Khartum were kept busy (the workmen being Egyptians who had escaped massacre).
Outside parliament he was busy formulating proposals for old age pensions, which had a prominent place in the Unionist programme of 1895.
But there is no reason to suppose that the political ideas of Montfort had matured before the death of Grosseteste; nor did Grosseteste busy himself overmuch with secular politics, except in so far as they touched the interest of the Church.
But criticism is still busy attempting to trace these also to historical originals, and Theodor Abeling (Das Nibelungenlied, 1907) makes out a very plausible case for identifying Siegfried with Segeric, son of the Burgundian king Sigimund, Brunhild with the historical Brunichildis, and Hagen with a certain Hagnericus, who, according to the Life of St Columban, guided the saint (the chaplain of the Nibelungenlied), who had incurred the enmity of Brunichildis, safe to the court of her grandson Theuderich, king of the West Franks.
During the busy season of rice-export, which lasts from the end of December to the middle of May, the pool forming the port of Rangoon presents almost as crowded a scene as the Hugli at Calcutta.
As the day of their flight neared, Carmen tried to stay busy with packing and taking care of Destiny.
They were too busy watching to see if I would fall off.
He worked the ATV down a steep rocky slope and through overhanging brush that kept her busy dodging limbs and combing cobwebs from her hair.
He was probably too busy with school.
I appreciate the fact that you guys watch your language around me and make sure you're all busy at the camp fire when I need privacy.
Martha sat at her desk, busy with files and paper work, a scowl on her face.
It's too busy at Bird Song and I've been—goofing off all morning.
Dinner was a quiet affair, cooked by the returning Fred O'Connor—hamburgers, a tad over-broiled, but the Deans appreciated the effort as they were busy with Bird Song's other chores.
Now all I want from you is a little favor—keep the bastard busy for ten or fifteen minutes.
Cynthia was busy feeding linens into the insatiable washing machine.
I been meaning to tell you about 'em but it's been so busy around here it slipped my mind.
It was a time to tackle all those built up chores that had accumulated during the busy season now that life was stalled in the dark of winter.
But, if it'll keep you busy … His look was doubtful.
A half dozen workers whose desks were in sight of their superior all pretended unsuccessfully to act busy while sneaking peeks at the stranger.
Sparring with Darian kept her mind busy, for the Grey God was unpredictable in the ring.
He was still watching her – probably wondering what he had done to irritate her – maybe even wondering if she was upset or merely busy.
He was so busy all the time – so obsessed with something.
Far from changing his mind about the inheritance or feeling competitive with a possible new heir, he was busy giving Felipa a boost into the position his father had coveted for his only son.
You are a busy matrimonial lawyer acting for a wife in very acrimonious divorce proceedings.
For our translation co-ordinators we are seeking conscientious, motivated individuals to join our busy administrative team.
You can't find more action than that caused by the curiosity of busy toddlers ages 18 to 36 months.
Staff are friendly and even when it's busy we seem able to get a comfy seat.
Those too busy to plan deposit accounts may have built up substantial balances.
You could find yourself working at a busy military aerodrome, either in the UK or overseas.
As the city roar dies away and light ebbs from these busy plains the mountain enjoys the afterglow and radiates its presence.
In the summer months, residents can enjoy a cool drink on the roof terrace at the Tower Bar overlooking the busy airfield.
The management of lower limb amputees was being provided within a busy, acute vascular unit.
A Jack Russell terrier tolerated the visitors, provided he was kept busy racing after a thrown tennis ball.
To use a few well chosen words, coined by some animal expert no doubt, I have been quite the busy beaver.
Early last century there was a blind beggar who, led by his dog, tried in vain to cross a busy London street.
But nobody thinks to ask the obvious questions; they are too busy bowing and scraping and brown-nosing.
An elegant, busy Conran owned brasserie in an area where high class restaurants are surprisingly thin on the ground.
If service seems a little brusque sometimes that is because the waiter is always so busy.
There is plenty to keep students busy with lots of choices within the eight main areas.
The ward was extremely busy at the time; there were only enough staff to care for 22 patients.
Just about getting settled down had a very busy week hoping to hear from you soon love to all from all your sister Belle.
I fear, my gift will be a little late, but you will forgive when you know how exceptionally busy I have been.
D ' I have had an incredibly busy year, both academically and socially.
Are you too busy to pray or too busy to pray or too busy not to pray?
The cadets were very keen and Sunday mornings became as busy as any weekday.
In my experience, CNID is not delivered if your phone is busy, even if you have call waiting.
In term-time 20,000 students fill the leafy campus, and the holiday periods are busy with conferences and events.
A high number of deer carcasses were found by the roadside on a busy stretch of road in a short space of time.
You will take on a busy caseload of Estates Planning, Trusts and some Wills and Probate.
So great were their numbers that they quickly filled the immense underground cavern and forced the busy workmen to abandon their tasks.
The rest of us get busy removing cellophane from the remainder.
It has been designed to help you make informed food choices in today's busy lifestyles.
Progress will depend critically on the extent to which you are able to get the message over to busy clinicians.
The harbor was once busy with small cobles working stake nets for salmon off the River Tyne.
Some thugs threw a ten month old collie into a busy road in Park Avenue, Bedford.
Pendle Mill is ideally located for the busy commuter.
EndIf constructions ̃ MapNetworkDrive already connected This is what I call a busy logon script.
Now they're trying to look contrite - and busy.
My other co-worker was busy looking for her debit card to pay her portion of the bill.
And those many schemes to finish in this busy summer daze.
We pass a few car dealerships & a semi busy Esso garage.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Damian Burrin had been busy sorting out his RAF traffic cone (now somewhat legendary ), complete with 38mm MMT and video downlink.
Pwllheli is also set for a busy Easter, with self-catering accommodation proving very popular.
Ramsgate Behind the busy Port of Ramsgate, high Chalk Cliffs yield echinoid 's and shells.
A few streets are busy through-routes, yet a vigorously enforced traffic scheme ensures that the majority enjoy a quiet life.
He has captured the essence of a busy, happy place, full of opportunity, where things happen.
I've been quite busy of late and that is my somewhat flimsy excuse for the lack of updates.
Yellow Finches were busy on the low cliff ledges, unaware that they were hopping along a raised beach full of marine fossils.
Five years ago the Port of Liverpool was ranked fourth among UK container ports serving the busy North Atlantic route.
I was driving down a very busy freeway in Southern California, six lanes on each side.
There were many tales of how the local gamekeepers were kept busy!
A range of plants were used including bedding geraniums, petunias, verbena, lobelia, Busy Lizzie and fuchsias.
The run up to Christmas is a busy time for many charities and for charity givers.
Goodwill to All - 21/12/05 Leeds Met staff have been busy spreading seasonal goodwill to All - 21/12/05 Leeds Met staff have been busy spreading seasonal goodwill throughout and beyond the university.
Charles had bought along his hard redheaded wife Norma, and she was busy swapping malicious gossip with Emily.
Try some sugar-free gum, a glass of water, or keep yourself busy.
If we had a busy half-hour, I used to go outside for a cigarette thinking that it relieved the stress.
Our shops are staffed by volunteers and we would really appreciate extra help at this very busy time of year.
The road was very busy with traffic, with much hooting of horns, obviously a very popular weekend route for locals.
Both locomotives were still busy marshaling some enormous bogie hopper wagons that were being filled via tips from the narrow gage line above.
It also provided a calmer environment than the normal busy hubbub of hospital activity.
The pupils have been busy making a large hutch & rabbit proofing the quadrangle where they are going to live.
She now runs her own busy hypnotherapy practice in Cuckfield, East Sussex.
As a result many local businesses have been rendered totally inactive over the busy Bank Holiday weekend.
Of course the native population were also busy and frequent incursions and skirmishes took place along this boundary line.
All of these wipes fit onto easy-to-fix wall mounted holders and can be easily interchanged and replaced, perfect for every busy office.
The remaining birds were spotted during various trips including the crested lark at a busy roundabout near the center of La Rochelle.
Chalet style booths with cheery green Leatherette, massive hanging menus offering dozens of sandwich combinations and constantly busy staff.
Throw away all of your cigarettes, matches, lighters, ashtrays, etc. Keep busy on the day you give up.
He found the lizard still busy eating his egg plants.
Too busy to stop in and take a look-see?
With two sections of single line and a busy mainline in between pathing is very constrained.
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Meanwhile, the metric martyrs have kept themselves busy.
As a tourist Mecca, the city is busy and often crowded.
Busy performers are always on the watch for good close-up mentalism; here it is.
Woods I like, he's a busy attacking midfielder.
A quick find and busy hunt around the large pond saw hounds hard at work before catching 1 mink on the bottom island.
Charlie is busy trying to raise the money to buy a hop garden.
But even so, just one of Boris ' several jobs would be enough to keep most ordinary mortals busy and out of mischief.
It was a huge hit with our testers and despite the delicate feel of the fabric its machine washable perfect for busy tired mums!
Looking at a lot of different screens makes it very obvious that busy screens are distracting and moving screens induce nausea.
The Western is a busy hospital with many specialities including neurosurgery.
The idea was to take cyclists off the rather busy road alongside the Coast Road, partly using the next road northwards.
The track can get quite busy at times, especially if theres nothing on, but it copes extremely well.
You will join a team of two existing receptionists in this busy multi occupancy building.
It's a blessing that such a curious and fragile pop oddity can exist in this blustery and busy modern world.
The book covers complex ideas, and the amount and density of information could seem off-putting to the busy practitioner.
All the organizers had a busy day one-way or another but there was plenty of compliments at the end of the event.
Ops team setting up after a busy week.
In Vienna, Professor Edmond Weiss was busy calculating probable close encounters between Earth and comet orbits.
We asked Mr Portillo for a comment but his office told us he was busy cooking an enormous paella.
I am also busy writing the panto for our Junior Members party.
Set in 170 acres of rolling parkland, a spa day at Tring will still your thoughts in a busy world.
They shouldn't ride on crowded pavements, in shopping areas or on pavements near busy roads.
The staff concerned are kept exceptionally busy processing a large weekly payroll and handling all our secretarial and accounting tasks.
I no longer teach, but I have a phalanx of former pupils keen to come and help when it gets busy here!
James Kirby enjoys a busy career as a solo pianist and chamber musician.
Busy babies will enjoy reaching for the intriguing playthings hanging from the three-dimensional Whoozit® Gym to Go.
Luke was too busy getting his eyebrows plucked to join in.
The city of Izmir is the third largest in turkey and has a busy port on the Aegean Sea.
Letter from the Editor Over the past few months Jim and I have been very busy rescuing more primates.
What exactly do NGfL Managed Services offer to busy head teachers and college principals who are looking to improve their ICT facilities?
Busy working people, perhaps on day release, working toward a professional qualification.
The US still has many busy and expanding commuter rail networks around major cities, and enormous amounts of long-distance bulk rail freight.
Top 5 star hotel with over 70 rooms in Cheshire seeks an experienced senior receptionist to join their busy front of house team.
Gentoo Penguins have established a rookery and a busy penguin highway here.
It was a truly rousing speech indeed and rounded off a busy year for the Politics Society on an impressive note.
They make an unusual and eye-catching display and are perfect for stocking in the busy run-up to Christmas.
Former Norwich City associate schoolboy Ricky Martin is a busy man.
Formerly busy with sailing schooners and ketches in the china-clay export trade.
The Center is a busy focus for visiting seafarers of all nationalities, with some 1400 using the Center each month.
Valencia Just inland from Spain's most busy seaport are the fruit groves of Valencia.
September is a busy month with principal sales of mule gimmer shearlings and ewe lambs at most of our sales centers.
Camden, Willesden, Cricklewood - areas of north west London famed for their busy steam locomotive sheds.
My samples were growing out of cracks in the concrete sidewalk beside a busy four lane highway.
For example, suppose the bicycle was chained on a busy sidewalk.
After a busy time sightseeing, the guests ' lounge is an ideal place in which to relax.
As we descended a farmer was busy cutting silage.
Never mind, at least I'll be too busy to host a sleepover.
Busy at work were brick layers, hedge choppers, a bulldozer and one rather happy-looking bunch knee-high in black sludge.
People were busy collecting souvenirs of the old place.
As well as rendering little girls speechless, it's a life saver for busy mums.
Several spinsters (women who spun wool) would be needed to keep the weaving loom busy.
A gray squirrel is busy digging in the lawn near the feeder.
If its not busy, the food gets a bit stale.
We go from the backyard of a house to a busy street.
Living in a narrow coastal strip, they were busy traders, with little else to sustain them.
There are big busy roads all the way to Plumstead, then suburban backroads to Erith.
However it was very busy and all the 'known ' tench swims were taken.
Did you work on a busy switchboard in the Sixties?
I'm busy with a new patch of my Poly 61, a good analog synthesizer.
Telex has various fax type facilities such as redialling busy numbers, logging and reporting on calls and sending telex has various fax type facilities such as redialling busy numbers, logging and reporting on calls and sending telexes to multiple recipients.
She had been very busy working as a beauty therapist at Options in Burnley.
She lived in a shop on Angel Lane, which was a busy thoroughfare.
Out of the clay of love I molded thee, how dost thou busy thyself with another?
Caitlin and Georgia were very busy with the chocolate tombola too as you can imagine, and Scarlett a willing helper to Guider Coral.
In a busy, crowded slaughterhouse environment where staff are untrained, sheep routinely escape the grasp of the stunning tongs.
Good job I have the Tiny tot to keep me busy all day!
We had thirty seven cars on the grid on Sunday - it got a trifle busy out on the track to say the least!
Nowadays Matlock Bath is a busy tourist resort, attracting both day trippers and long stay holiday makers.
Many children truanted from school to help on the farm at busy times.
Her mother is busy making jam, her father is busy playing the tuba, her brother is busy playing computer games.
You're too busy to have any personal thoughts of fear, well, except the odd twinge.
Anyway, what caring parent would ever allow a youngster to go unaccompanied via the very busy New Road to the Terrace grounds?
Whilst in the Bristol Channel they were navigating a busy waterway, sharing it with ocean going freighters, tankers and coasters.
Home to much more than just our busy squirrels, you may even be lucky enough to spot a weasel.
Posted by mr mackenzie on 17/11/03 [Link] busy weekend I was really late home from work on Friday.
Great Linford was once home to a busy canal wharf.
But my dancer friend was too busy making whoopee with some young stud to open the door and tend to poor old me.
Few drivers notice the huge bird with a five-foot wingspan floating effortlessly above the busy motorway.
Please note pre Xmas we are very busy be patient!