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.

But how much more clumsy was the frame-up afterwardthe elaborate fixing of many witnesses to make it appear that Grimm was shot at Tower avenue and Second street when he actually was shot in front of the hall; and to make it appear that Ben Casagranda and Earl Watts were shot around the corner on Second street, when they were actually shot on Tower avenue, close to the front of the hall.

'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.

"That imported young lady, with all those elegant fixings, sort of jarred with the Mission architecture, to my mind.

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

Mrs. Sykes, as she admitted herself, was no hand at fancy fixings

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.

It needs a little fixing which we can't do until morning.

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.

I have ordered a carriage at eleven, and we'll buy all those pretty fixings you women doat on.

This aids in a more rapid fixing of the air-cells and likewise gives more crust, which is the sweetest and most digestible part of the bread.

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."