So she won't listen to reason, and she won't come downstairswhich," lamented Rudolph Musgrave, plaintively, "is particularly awkward in a house-party.

He was athletic and steady, but the climb looked awkward for a beginner.

We are trying to know a little of the usages of that colony; to learn the language, and the faces we shall meet with there, that we may be the less awkward at our first coming among them.

And the awkward part is, you see, her being on the stage and married makes the whole thing about as awkward as a case of that sort can possibly be.'

"That's awkward to-night," Kelson commented with a short laugh of annoyance.

Eric's fingers were awkward with knots, and besides, now, they were numb with the cold.

It is evident that Lord Byron is a little awkward about this matter, and his officious friends have got him into a most unlordly scrape, from which they can only relieve him by treading back their steps.

Nothing could be more awkward than he in a drawing-room.

At home, she was the shyest and most awkward of creatures; away from her mother and sisters, she was self-possessed and charming.

he exclaimed, crossing himself, and awkward under the unaccustomed sense of an overwhelming compassion.

If Mr. Trott is not awkward out of Time, he has a Right to Dance let who will Laugh:

25."Little explanatory circumstances," says Priestley, "are particularly awkward between the genitive case, and the word which usually follows it; as, 'She began to extol the farmer's, as she called him, excellent understanding.'

" "Thank you, General; I feel awkward over my errand here," hesitating; "I wanted to see a lawyer in his office, with his books and papers, and be permitted to look, especially at his books.

A sudden rush of fighting, howling persons swept me along, jammed me against a pillar, pushed me over a table, and forced me to engage in a furious struggle, exceedingly awkward by reason of the darkness and the extraordinary amount of furniture.

I am afraid that I must be a very difficult "subject," yet I sit easily enough, and don't mind being looked atan objection which makes some sitters constrained and awkward before the painter.