"One most embarrassing to us.

You quite fall in love with it, and it looks so harmless, so enticing, that you're tempted to get quite close to it; which no doubt is amusing to the iceberg, but is slightly embarrassing for you; for the iceberg is on you before you know it, andand there isn't enough left of you for a decent funeral.

And to consider even those in which less proofs of skill and foresight can be discovered, may have, at least, this advantage, that the proposals may not be speedily repeated, nor our counsels embarrassed with absurd expedients.

(embarrassed by her half laugh)

"I was never so distressed andwell, embarrassed at anything in my life.

They are not exactly impossible, as I at first feared, but they are so wholly unconventional as to be somewhat embarrassing as protégées.

A fat man, bag in hand, traveling cap on head, his legs embarrassed in the skirts of a huge overcoat, short and breathless.

That is a source of considerable satisfaction to me now; but it was embarrassing in that delicate situation when my fate hung almost by a thread, and a trifle could delay my release for days.

If you were asked to describe the most embarrassing of your class-room experiences, you would probably cite the occasions when the instructor asks you a series of questions demanding close reasoning.

What are we to think, then, of the delicacy which shrinks from the reading-room frequented by men; which discovers so suddenly that magazines are more embarrassing than mazourkas; that to read in a cloak and hat before a man is more indelicate than to waltz in his presence half denuded by fashion?

The conversation would be still more embarrassing before the Colonel, so he stopped, and said shortly: "In our country nobody beats a woman because he likes her.

Your sympathies are requested for Mr. Bolsover Kimberley, a gentleman embarrassed beyond measure.

For in truth conversation was quite embarrassing under the circumstances.

There was an awkward pause, during which my father looked at me and touched his forehead significantly with his forefinger; while the Chevalier, embarrassed between his natural timidity and his desire to appear of importance, glanced from one face to the other, and waited for a reply.

The latter consideration had great weight in inducing her to cultivate an acquaintance so embarrassing on many accounts.

She and her counsellors, acting under orders from the king, were resolved on embarrassing to the utmost the patriot lords; and a new oath of allegiance, to be proposed to every functionary of the state, was considered as a certain means for attaining this object without the violence of an unmerited dismissal.

"There is nothing embarrassing about the choosing of a route, is there?" he queried.

no, but rather embarrassing for others, and embarrassed for himself.