This was indeed a most awkward predicament for me, and I debated for a moment whether my best course would not be to go boldly down the stairs and pass them, rather than retreat to the top room.

And if you'll put away metaphysics, come out of the cloud in which you have hid yourself in your dreamy speculations, I will furnish you with a case in point, showing that a man may get into a very unpleasant predicament, where he runs a great risk and gets some hard knocks, and yet be able to thank God for it, in perfect earnestness of spirit.

The night was fast closing in, and the last retiring beams of the sun shed a mournful light over an extensive tract of forest bordering upon the district of the Hartz, just as (but I must not forget the date, somewhere about the year 1547,) the Baron Rudolf found himself in the very disagreeable predicament of having totally lost his companions and his way, amidst an almost interminable region of forest and brushwood.

This was his sad predicament.

Thus, when the lady's husband came knocking at the door, Mrs. Daventry was able to rescue the guilty pair from an apparently hopeless predicament, by calmly switching on the lights and opening the door to Sir John Langham.

There he soon found that the situation was by no means so black as it had been paintedGeneral Trucy Aubert, who had been cut off with one of the columns of the army, having cleverly extricated his force from its dangerous predicament so as to bring it safely back to the base at Torreon without undue loss of men or prestige.

"Picnickers from Coombe, in an unfortunate predicament.

Suddenly the sun broke out in full splendor, as if to expose more clearly to the view of the sufferers their dreadful predicament.

It has always struck me as an amusing thing that the world, and all the human beings thereon, do get themselves into such curious and painful predicaments, and then spend the rest of the time wishing they could get out.

Isn't this a queer predicament to be in, and not a chocolate left?"

Through their inexperience in the manners of the world and their heedlessness or ignorance of ceremony both young ladies are mortified by falling into embarrassing and awkward predicaments.

HOLMES, SAMUEL J. The eugenic predicament.

In a predicament so unexampled, how can it at all matter to me whatever you may elect to do?" "Then certainly I shall not waste any of my fine terrors on you!" said Freydis, with a vexed tossing of her head.

mathematics, mathesis^. [Logic.] category, general conception, universal predicament.

It was a cruel test, a wicked predicament.

This was an awful predicament for me.

Hence their masters have suffered losses, besides the expense incurred in buying what they ought to have raised upon their own estates, and this perhaps at a dear market: and in this wretched predicament Mr. Steele appears to have been himself when he first went to the estate.

I felt like laughing at my own comical predicament, and I decided to make my address a medley of anecdotes and stories, like a string of beads, held together by a fine thread of argument and illustration.

The poet now found himself in a desperate predicament, financially ruined by the failure of all his enterprises, and discredited with the government, from which he vainly sought some reparation for the violence done to his journal; worst of all, he found himself without honor at home, where he was looked upon as a ne'er-do-well and a disgrace to the reputation of a fine old military family.

The vessel was too leaky to bear the voyage; and the Captain drinking nothing scarcely but gin, had never troubled his head about taking in water; so that they were soon reduced to short allowance, which, in that sultry clime and season of the year, was a distressing predicament.

I laughed heartily at this, not thinking the day was coming which would find me in the same ludicrous predicament.

It was unhinged and half open as it had been when he had awakened to his painful and inexplicable predicament.

Behold a pleasant predicament for two city-bred ladies, not "to the manner born," of swinging themselves from the end of a ladder by means of a rusty iron chain, from which they would alightwhere?

"Aint I in a pretty predicament!" said he, as he tried in vain to move his swollen limb, which was broken in two places, but which being partially benumbed did not now pain him much.

But Miss Wimple was in a peculiarly provoking predicament, and for such there is ever a malignant star;callers and customers dropped in, one after another, all day, as they had rarely come before,as though, indeed, her most spiteful enemy had got wind of the petticoat affair, and sent them to plague her.