The captain might know Braine, and then how could he extricate himself from the dilemma?

He was reminded of no joke by the present dilemma, and remained very solemn, as Jack enlarged on the glories of the proposed campaign.

Difficulty, predicament, perplexity, plight, quandary, dilemma, strait.

The farmer knows his need and has made clear statement of the national dilemma in the form of a memorial to the President of the United States.

The ladies were extremely frightened and told the doctor their dilemma, for they were both absolutely compelled to leave.

Mrs. Airy saw the dilemma, made the little speech, and the gentlemen escorted us to the door, and then returned to their wine.

"Which gives us the dilemma in its fullest force," said the priest, speaking as if to the floor.

I lately got into a dilemma of this sort.

You're a pretty smart young fellow, and you'll disappoint me a good deal if you don't find some way out of this dilemma.

So that Mr. PARTRIDGE lieth under a dilemma, either of disowning his Almanack, or allowing himself to be no man alive.

In this dilemma, as I was very pensive, I stepped into the cabin, and sat me down, Xury having the helm; when, on a sudden, the boy cried out, Master, master, a ship with a sail!

What was to be done in this horrible dilemma?

There are people so gifted that in a dilemma they always know exactly the wisest course to adopt.

Latinus, in this dilemma, said the rivals must settle the dispute by an appeal to arms.

" The beautiful Penelope finding herself in this dilemma, blushed, and without making the least reply, drew her veil over her face, thereby intimating a denial to her father's request, and sunk into the arms of her husband.

I tell thee, in such a dilemma, she would lie, till the very sun at noon hid his face out of shame.

It is possible, therefore, to avoid the ingenious dilemma by which Mr. Balfour argues that we must either demonstrate that the desire, e.g. for scientific truth, is lineally descended from some one of the specific instincts which teach us 'to fight, to eat, and to bring up children,' or must admit the supernatural authority of the Shorter Catechism.

By a curious inconsistency, man will permit woman to help him out of a political dilemma and will then suavely remark that suffrage will degrade her.

A Dilemma VIII.

In this dilemma, Caesar succeeded in making an arrangement with Crassus, who has already been spoken of as a man of unbounded wealth and great ambition, but not possessed of any considerable degree of intellectual power.

Your portrait, in what is so frankly a costume assumed for the purpose, takes us out of the dilemma very nicely, indeed.

So the author diplomatically ignored both horns of the dilemma, or, in other words, determined to consecrate his tragedy neither to Queen nor Duchess.

America's dilemma.

And when he drove on a quarter of a mile, he found himself in a most unpleasant dilemma, the two horns being two roads, concerning which those who directed him had neglected to give him any advice.

I mean you're the great human paradoxless human and more paradox then I've seen advertised at a circusand whilest you're perpetual dodging one horn or t'other of a dilemma, any friend of yours is getting bunked square between the two.