On the other hand, it would be exceedingly awkward for me if they were to come here in my absence and imagine that I am gone.

and I managed to turn the tables on Oaks at that inquiry; it would have been jolly awkward for the rest of you to have proved an alibi.

He is slim, fair, and singularly awkward, and of a uniform pale yellowyellow complexion, yellow hair, and yellow eyebrows.

The first time I did it I nearly ruined the dress I had on, and so I went to the garret and got this old gown, which covers me up very well, though it looks dreadfully, and is awfully awkward.

"It's beastly awkward.

" "It would be," Phineas Duge remarked, "uncommonly awkward for you and Weiss and the others.

It would be mighty awkward to poke into any of the others.

Boastful but poor; a coiner of words, but very ignorant; solemnly grave, but ridiculously awkward; majestical in gait, but of very low propensities.

It is surely sufficient to convince you that if the truth were spoken, the revelations would be distinctly awkward.

In what are the open vices of Egerton worse than the more hidden ones of Denbigh? These freely expressed opinions on the character of Sir Henry were excessively awkward to some of the listeners, to whom they were connected with unpleasant recollections of duties neglected, and affections thrown away.

It is horribly awkward!" Her father shook his head as he slowly peeled an orange.

And it is going to be horridly awkward, too....

The sides are small, but in sitting in them you do not experience that buried- alive sensation, that bewilderment beneath a heavy ceiling elaborated with hugely awkward prop-work and pillars, which is felt in some church aisles.

Wagner himself characterized the performance as being, in its main features, "a complete failure," and the stage setting "incredibly awkward and wooden" (very different from what it is in Dresden to-day).

They are almost invariably coarse and ugly, with the exception of their eyes, with a peculiarly awkward gait, and forms bent by burthens.

Thereupon I vanished like a flash, to run to my mirror and reproduce to my sight papa Dugrand, Judge of my astonishment: not only my gesture, until now so persistently awkward, seemed suddenly metamorphosed and became harmonious and natural; but, stranger yet, it did not correspond in the least to what had been prescribed.

They threw their bodies from side to side in a most remarkably awkward fashion, but always moving the head forwards in a straight line.

Here he found it strangely awkward and even perilous to dismount without his hands to balance his weight, as he shifted out of the stirrups.

For a man of his power and attainments he was as a speaker, and in conversation, surprisingly awkward.

It is better to write by guess, than to become systematically awkward in expression.

'It would be terribly awkward for dear Arthurine to stand up and say he cajoled her into giving her autograph.

You felt, for the most part of your stay in this country, flushed and hot and uncomfortable and unbelievably awkward, and you were mercilessly bedeviled there; but not for all the accumulated wealth of Samarkand and Ind and Ophir would you have had it otherwise.

The two can hardly, in their intimate conversations, have completely avoided the subject of the massacres; but after all, that was not such an unmanageably awkward topic, for Wilhelm II.

"Come, then, I will relieve you for a while, because it would be most unpleasantly awkward for the ladies to be cast ashore on a desert island; and equally so on an inhabited one, if they possessed no letters of introduction to the natives.

The approaches to the church are varied and aggravatingly awkward.