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Example sentences for "embarras"

Lexicographically close words:
embarked; embarking; embarks; embarque; embarqued; embarrass; embarrassed; embarrassedly; embarrasses; embarrassing
  1. The rest of the party set off afterwards, and kept along the river until ten, when we branched off by portages into the Embarras River, the usual channel of communication in canoes with the lake.

  2. When we turn to the painting world there is an equal embarras de richesse.

  3. The huge and closely spaced columns would embarras the movements and intercept the view of those who crowded about their bases.

  4. In this matter our only difficulty will be an embarras de richesse, a difficulty of choice among the vast number of remains still existing of ancient Egypt from the time of Menes to that of the Persian conquest.

  5. The symptoms are such as belong to acute indigestion and the embarras gastrique of French authors.

  6. Such persons are apt to suffer from irritative and inflammatory forms of dyspepsia, which, in various degrees of intensity, alternate with the acuter forms of embarras gastrique.

  7. Gastric dilatation, especially in its early stages, is often accompanied by attacks of acute indigestion (embarras gastrique) after some indiscretion in diet.

  8. The rest of the party set off afterwards and kept along the river until ten when we branched off by portages into the Embarras River, the usual channel of communication in canoes with the lake.

  9. Elle n’a que l’embarras du choix = She has only too much to choose from.

  10. Embarras Ne faites donc pas tant d’embarras = Do not make such a fuss.

  11. The square pianoforte, which stood in his cabinet, he had placed beside the Pleyel concert grand in the salon, not without the most painful embarras to him.

  12. He does not know that I know of it, and on account, especially, of the embarras in which he knows I find myself, he wishes it to be concealed from me.

  13. So it was really “l’embarras de richesses,” for any one of these three lions would have been enough at once.

  14. I certainly never saw so many first-rate men together; but again it would have been l’embarras de richesses with me, had not each person been a whetting-stone to the wit and information of the other.

  15. Unless we take care to clear the First Principles of Knowledge from the embarras and delusion of Words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose; we may draw consequences from consequences, and be never the wiser.

  16. The Embarras runs through it, and the Muddy Fork of the Little Wabash waters its western side.

  17. Watered by Big, Clear, and Brulette's creeks on the eastern, and Little Embarras on its western side.

  18. The Wabash east, Fox river west, and Embarras and Raccoon through it.

  19. They surrounded me too, and I suppose wou'd still have kept me en Embarras had they not been call'd off to participate of an English Diversion call'd ducking a Pickpocket.

  20. West of the Embarras came the petulant Little Wabash and the Big Muddy, draining thousands of square miles of swamp and prairie, and, in rainy seasons, uniting and spreading out five miles in width.

  21. The most definite point known on Volney's route west of the Embarras was the Salt Spring, above mentioned, and this was on the more northerly route which crossed the Little Wabash east of Clay City.

  22. The day after, an early start was made in order that the famed Embarras might be reached before nightfall.

  23. One sees that they know the proverb,-- 'Dans l'embarras Va chez Judas.

  24. If this be true, it may embarras ministers here how to treat with Pache[302] or men who may not exist two days.

  25. This embarras de richesse would naturally be still more noticeable in a translation, and I am particularly anxious that "A Hungarian Nabob" should attract at first sight.


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