Sentence examples for he busied himself from inspiring English sources

Noting that Hatch had not encased the cast-iron columns with masonry — which would have prevented the collapse of the top floor — the journal maintained that instead "he busied himself with plastering the exterior of his building with a vast amount of not over-admirable decoration".

Then he busied himself with final details.

Initially, he busied himself with his first passion: music.

He busied himself with Bob the Builder stickers.

(As editor he busied himself downstream, not at the source).

Meanwhile, he busied himself with his great history, The Second World War, six volumes (1948 53).

He busies himself here with showing us that he is up to something weighty and meaningful.

Then, wonderfully, he busies himself by scraping the snow from Nikita and lying on top of him.

With the help of his current full-time home health aide, he busies himself with his plants, his books, his collection of dance figurines atop his fireplace.

Mr. Sayed and Ms. Haddad make a warm and charming team; she offers guided tours of his creations as he busies himself serenely among the two burners and the oven in his small kitchen.

It is thy duty then in the midst of such things to show good humour and not a proud air; to understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.