Royall sent only one company to join Crook, claiming later his forces had been too hotly engaged to withdraw.

The second part of the book draws in a group of women who seem more hotly engaged politically than the Old Testament group.

Half the British gunboats were also hotly engaged at this end of the line.

Kandar was closer, and he was hotly engaged with one of the invaders.

While hotly engaged with an enemy battery, a hot shot penetrated her magazine and Gunboat Number 9 blew up.

Not since the battle of Khafji three weeks ago have United States ground forces been so directly and hotly engaged with the Iraqis.

But the dour Videssian officer was hotly engaged himself, with no chance to come to Goudeles' rescue.

He was hotly engaged with a Yezda who was a better warrior than the first when the man suddenly wheeled to protect himself from a new threat.

No American arts audience is more hotly engaged.

Over in Benouville, no. 1 platoon was hotly engaged in street fighting.