Do not answer me: it might embarrass you, and it would be useless.
This appeared to embarrass him, but taking the arm of Camors he said, with a smile, "'Semel insanivimus omnes.
This difficulty does not in the least embarrass the Hindoo theologians; they easily find a distinguo--a solution in sensu composito--in sensu diviso.
As neither side was ignorant of what the result of the arbitration would be, only one of the two could be expected to close with the offer, and the most it could hope by doing this was to embarrass the other.
Tyrone was thereby baulked of Spanish help, without which he would not plunge into such a rebellion as might threaten seriously to embarrass Elizabeth and benefit Philip.
The French King was equally ready to win papal favour by persecuting his own protestant subjects, and to encourage the protestant subjects of the Emperor, according as one course or the other seemed more likely to embarrass Charles.
The ultramontanes were even more eager than their enemies to exclude an influence that might embarrass their policy.
Drummond saw that he could embarrass Stormont by selling the secret he had been cheated of to somebody else.
If there be any truth in the story, the object of the French promoters of this demonstration is probably to embarrass the Ferry Government.
It seems to me that without being driven to anything of the kind by German interests, Bismarck has lately taken a sort of malicious pleasure in treating matters in a way calculated to embarrass and discredit us.
Only the matter of impersonation failed to embarrass in prospect.
Playing her part so well as almost to embarrass Lanyard himself, the girl smiled daringly into his eyes.
Mr. DAVIS said his object, in making this motion, was, that the House should accomplish that directly, which had been this session attempted in so circuitous a way as to embarrass and delay its proceedings.
He hoped there was no disposition entertained by gentlemen to embarrass this proposition with points unconnected with it.
But why speak of British inhumanity, if not to embarrass this bill?
It had been admitted that if it could be proved that the stamping of bank notes would embarrass their circulation, it would be a good objection to the tax.
He would not say that it was unwise in this state of our affairs to prepare for remonstrance and negotiation, much less was he then about to propose any measure that would thwart negotiation, or embarrass the President.
The chief aim, however, certainly was to discredit the republican notes and to embarrass the Parisian Government.
Nevertheless, Pitt begged Rose not to attack the Cabinet on that topic, as it would embarrass him.
Piecing together these fragments of evidence, we may infer that Pitt's near relations were a source of considerable expense, and that his own heedlessness had by this time further served to embarrass him.
As they resented the absence of definite praise in his speech, he withdrew to Walmer, there to serve his country andembarrass his finances by raising the Cinque Ports Volunteers.
The planters evince a disposition to throw all the helpless and infirm freedmen upon the hands of the government possible, in order to embarrass us and compel us to return them to slavery again.
Athos and Raoul observed that he often tried to embarrass them by sudden attacks, or to catch them off their guard; but neither the one nor the other gave him the least advantage.
Let us avoid offers of assistance, which would embarrass us.
M160) Promise to extend our knowledge & clear it of those shamefull contradictions which embarrass it.
But accommodation such as this necessarily entailed considerable expense, and the compensation to Cunard under the contract was so great as seriously to embarrass the financial position of the post office in Nova Scotia.
No matter what may happen to me personally in the next election, I will not take any action to embarrass England when she is fighting for her life and the life of the world.
The other purpose of my visit was to warn him that Senator Stone might induce him to make some admission with reference to his attitude which might embarrass the President in the future.
Haste or impetuous action on his part in advocating conscription could only, in his opinion, delay matters and embarrass the very purpose that lay in his mind.
You will know how to create the impression on the minds of the newspaper men that I regard it as merely a partisan effort to hamper and embarrass the Administration.
His polite care not to embarrass her shut the door.
The copious potations of sack do not cloud his intellect, or embarrass his tongue.
Neither do I perceive how this can embarrass your argument, as you have proposed to consider them 'true, disjunctively,' as well as conjunctively.
He did not embarrass her much; but then on the Monday of the holiday he was to spend a whole day with her.
The situation did notembarrass him, to his knowledge.
The difficulties they excite in Germany and foment on the subject of the coadjutor of Munster and Cologne, are intended to embarrass this Republic, and hinder it from being successfully occupied in the re-establishment of its navy.
These eternal repetitions, and their pretended success in Georgia, do not fail to disquiet your friends and to embarrass all my endeavors.
Without looking directly at him, which would, she knew, embarrass him before all those hungry people behind her, she could out of the corner of her eye see the ruddy brown of his cheek and the hard thick curve of his shoulder.
It would seem impossible to an older person that Grace's presence could so embarrass Maggie; it embarrassed her to the terrible extent of driving every idea out of her head.
Their application was of a nature to embarrass him considerably.
