For a moment he and Tom paid no attention to the mermaid, so absorbed were they in the possibility of a blow-up.
"The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories"
Charles Weathers Bump
The thought of immortality is with Him involved in, and absorbed by, the idea of life.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
And so we had parted from the absorbed gentle old scientist, without a word of farewell.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou