A commandant who would agree to sich a plan has no right to expect his troops can rely upon his showin' good judgment in a tight fix.

And you'd be in a pretty fix now, if we left you alone with your whisky, which is about all you've got.

There was nothing now to be done but to return as quickly as possible; but they were for a while in an awkward fix, as they could get no one to direct them.

"It's an awful fix to be in," ruminated Andy with a sigh of real distress.

'Dolph's indiscretion had put her in a desperate fix; but something told her that her best chance with this man was to stand up to him and show fight.

Now they would start about him with excited comments to see the eldest fix a bunch of violets in his button-hole.

Now the man in any kind of rig with another holding his horses' bits is in an embarrassing fix.

It was a ghastly fix, for it was clear that the steamer was sinking fast.

The multitude love to hear the powerful exposed and reproached up to a certain limit; but if reproach go clearly beyond all that they feel to be deserved, a violent sentiment reacts on the head of the reviler: and though popular indignation (even when free from the element of selfishness) ill fixes the due measure of Punishment, I have a strong belief that it is righteous, when it pronounces the verdict Guilty.

A goat, with restless eye, has just stretched her head over the edge of the precipice, and for an instant fixes on him her astonished glance.

in a nastier fix.

We are too apt to find that Gentlemen both here and outside fix upon some incident of which they read in the newspaper; they put it under a microscope; they indulge in reflections upon it; and they regard that as taking an intelligent interest in the affairs of India.

The last phrase, "without the solemn impression," &c., which is subjoined by "without" to "cannot look," embraces likewise a subordinate, relative clause,"that fixes and overpowers him,"which has two verbs; the whole, antecedent and all, being but an adjunct of an adjunct, yet an essential element of the sentence.

No; Stroke, Bow, and Coxswain must "go it like bricks," If they mean to get out of this troublesome fix.

It's a mighty uncomfortable fix to be in, Dick, my boy; though, 'pon my soul, I believe you enjoy it!" Dick grinned deprecating.

He had thought himself in an unpleasant fix before; and that to escape scot free he must eat humble pie with a bad grace.

As a body, numerous in itself, they are as free from crime as any other associated body or profession of men, and yet do they "his majesty's servants" continue to lay under the stigma which the above unrepealed act fixes upon them.

That is a fact you had better fix in your mind once for all, my boy.

He replied, that she was in "a wretched fix."

The amount claimed in most cases is not what the claimant thinks he is justly entitled to for the losses he has sustained, but is the amount which his "caprice or cupidity fixes as that which may possibly be allowed him."

Come and help me out of this damn fix!

The mother sobbed without comfort, and finally added: "Sh-she in a delicate fix now, an' 'at jail goin' to be a gloomy place fuh Cissie.