He seemed rather sceptical as to the peaceful issue of the negotiationsthought so many unforeseen questions would come up and complicate matters.

W. was rather depressed when he came homehe had always a great sympathy and respect for the marshal, and was very sorry to see him go,thought his departure would complicate foreign affairs.

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[MAN'S MARVELLOUS NATURE] How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man!

I do not wish to complicate the question by any too explicit advocacy of methods of election or the like.

And you have my word for it that he made no attempt to swamp the canoe or to otherwise complicate matters.

I added, "this does complicate matters.

Adams approved of this bold and defiant act, sure to complicate the relations with Great Britain.

Think how you would complicate the real estate business, when you came to turn out the mistaken people who had occupied, improved, and sold your property during your brief absence.

Some waxes are used as climbing wax instead of skins, but as different sorts are needed for different types of snow, they complicate life almost more than is worth while.

It was a mistake, and I do not wish to complicate the question.

To complicate matters, 'Frisco Kid waxed mutinous.

And while protesting against all undue elaborationfor all true reform should simplify life rather than complicate itwe should do well to acquire the knowledge of how to prepare a repast to satisfy, if need be, the most exacting and fastidious.

Though married in haste they did not wait for leisure before they repented, but commenced quarrelling at once, until Esmé, in order to test his love and that of an admirer who was helping to complicate matters, "bobbed" her hair and threw the severed tresses at her husband.

PYLADES The day of his return, as from the bath Arose the monarch, tranquil and refresh'd, His robe demanding from his consort's hand, A tangled garment, complicate with folds, She o'er his shoulders flung and noble head; And when, as from a net, he vainly strove To extricate himself, the traitor, base Ægisthus, smote him, and envelop'd thus Great Agamemnon sought the shades below.

But here again radiation comes in to complicate matters; for clouds may check the formation of dew.

The complicate ties of commerce could not be suddenly unloosed.

It is not necessary to say anything more of the character of such evidence as this;" and he winds up by observing: "Such a mode of instruction would, in his opinion, waste both the time and the labour employed upon it, and complicate and embarrass a study, which in its true shape is perfectly simple and clear."

"Now, Ross, don't be a bother, dear, and complicate matters.

Yet the couple minded not the observant tourist, and continued to enlarge and complicate his views of American life to the very bank of the Missouri.

To complicate matters, there came some scandals to light concerning the frauds and peculations in the furnishing of supplies for the army, which was being prepared for a campaign in extravagant haste, and rumor involved persons in the closest intimacy with the prime minister.

I expressed some surprise that in the course of this tour of duty he had not managed to find his way to America for an hour or two, if only to complicate my business with the dollar question... I read the whole Form again, from start to finish, including the bit about vouchers being required for any unusual expenditure, such as cab-fares of over ten shillings.

Leave Achilles and the tortoise out of the account altogether, he would have saidthey complicate the case unnecessarily.

They were subject to certain customs which were very strict, but which were few and did not seriously complicate life.

Whether the theory which Guerrazzi assumes in order to render probable the innocence of the Cenci be tenable or not we shall not stop to discuss; it is enough that it serves to heighten the romance and complicate the plot in a very effective manner.