Perhaps the meeting was awkward for her, but she had struck the right note, with the dignified simplicity he had expected.

"It would be awkward if one's tenants did so; but perhaps my feeling springs from envy.

If Grace knew how Osborn had rewarded him, the meeting might be awkward, but there was nothing to be gained by putting it off.

The directors were already decidedly uneasy about their first loan; shareholders had asked awkward questions, and the chairman had found no small difficulty in showing that the investment was likely to prove either safe or remunerative.

But my girl is made of obstinate stuff that crops up in awkward places sometimes; so she sent word by Jervis that if Archie liked to send her a letter of apology she would read it, but she would not see him until that had been done.

She was blessed with a vigorous non-analytical mind that asked no awkward questions, suggested no paralyzing doubts.

He was bashful and awkward.

They laughed at the awkward, new boy.

He knew that he was awkward; and this made him timid and bashful.

He was very awkward and far from handsome, but he was so modest, so unselfish and kind, that every one who knew him liked him.

The storm had ceased before we went through the first Tyrolese village, and we could not help being struck with the change in the appearance of the inhabitantsthe different costume, the less erect figures, the awkward gait, the lighter complexions, the neatly-kept inhabitations, and the absence of beggars.

They are a robust, healthy-looking race, tho' they have an awkward stoop in the shoulders.

Almost every one of the statues has its hands and fingers in some constrained and awkward position; as if the artist knew as little what to do with them as some awkward and bashful people know what to do with their own.

Almost every one of the statues has its hands and fingers in some constrained and awkward position; as if the artist knew as little what to do with them as some awkward and bashful people know what to do with their own.

It was a very awkward place, but being doubtful if return were possible, as I had been dropping from one ledge to another, I passed at length by lying across the slab, putting the shoulder stiffly against one side and the feet against the other, and gradually wriggling down, by first moving the legs and then the back.

A long stride round a rather awkward corner brought us to snow once more.

We hewed our steps as we moved upward, but were soon glad to deviate from the ice to a position scarcely less awkward.

Nearly all his implements are home-made, or come from the village blacksmith shop, and are of the rudest, most awkward description.

You become so accustomed to the awkward and the irregular movements that you really enjoy the novelty and are perfectly willing to try it again.

She was a girl of the lowest class, hardly clad in black rags, and there she lay with hanging jaw, in a very crooked and awkward pose, a jemmy at her feet, in her left hand a roll of bank-notes, and in her lap three watches.

Only I was afraid, Miss there was a little awkward, and would give you trouble.

They were backward to enter into conversation with me, and answered my enquiries with an awkward and embarrassed air.

After a few minutes of awkward commonplaces, he and Henrietta went up the lawns, leaving Del there.

For the purpose of preventing any erroneous construction of the articles, these rules are utterly useless; and for the purpose of syntactical parsing, or the grammatical resolution of this part of speech, they are awkward and inconvenient.

It being manifest, that to cannot "be used for"(that is, in place of)what is implied after it, this is certainly a very awkward way of hinting "there should never be an ellipsis of the infinitive after to."