It is always embarrassing to surprise strangers in sudden emotions, and Billie quickly changed the subject.
The others had gathered curiously around her and Billie felt that she was the center of an embarrassing episode.
I shall mention two of the most amusing, which will serve to convey an idea of the skilfulness and ready wit with which she extricated herself from the most embarrassing circumstances.
And it would be embarrassingto meet him, by invitation, on his own lawn.
The sum was not large, but any debt is embarrassing until we pay it, and then we can look back upon it as a pleasure.
Ordinary trouble is not quite so personally embarrassing as a marriage.
There were three couples involved in this embarrassing situation, and among them all it is difficult to say which was most embarrassed.
In short, it was, as Ashby had well said, a most embarrassing situation.
And thus it was certainly an embarrassing situation.
You will pardon me, I trust, if I hint just now that their position is a very embarrassing one, travelling as they are without proper chaperonage.
I suppose it may have been a little embarrassing for everybody--especially if Ann Apperthwaite heard you.
I wish I had known the subject was embarrassingor unpleasant to Mr. Dowden.
You thought it might be embarrassing to Miss Apperthwaite.
Such are the antecedents which induced me to draw up the said article with such ambiguity that it may be construed to the advantage of the Crown without giving occasion to embarrassing objections.
As a little boy, Keith did not know enough to ask anyembarrassing questions.
And, with a horrible dream-like sense of unreality, Mr. Bultitude found himself being greeted by several entire strangers with a degree of warmth embarrassing in the extreme.
In the evening, the men went out with their guns, and M'Leay and I walked to the rear of the camp, to consult undisturbed as to the moat prudent measures to be adopted, under our embarrassing circumstances.
He found himself now in the embarrassing position of one who must pay a compliment or run the risk of losing a good thing.
He joined his cousin, therefore, in the bay window without the embarrassing sense of indiscretion he had been used to feel up there.
It was an embarrassing moment, and the performer made a quick dash behind a sofa to screen herself from publicity, but she had not been there five minutes before she was called upon to answer a question.
To spare my friend further pain, I rose to go, just as the Earl was beginning to repeat his particularly embarrassing question about the flowers.
My position was so embarrassing in fact that I made several applications during the siege to be relieved.
The meeting was said to have been embarrassing to both, and the conversation was principally apologetic.
The administration had indeed a most embarrassingproblem to solve.
Meade's position afterwards proved embarrassingto me if not to him.
There were so many more volunteers than had been called for that the question whom to accept was quite embarrassing to the governor, Richard Yates.
You must put it down to my credit that instead of coming in as I had intended, thus embarrassing him, and perhaps spoiling a deal by my interference, I passed on, waited until he came out, and followed him to his hotel.
It is embarrassing enough to meet a bright, alert man, but in the presence of a clever woman, I become so painfully stupid that she thinks I'm putting it on.
The appearance of women saints, however, offered a constant and embarrassing criticism of this idiotic doctrine.
As to giving me or anybody else directions what to do under the embarrassing circumstances which had now occurred, she was totally incapable of the effort.
He and I were little better than strangers to each other, and the interview was likely to be, on that account, unspeakably embarrassing and humiliating on my side.
Teola's next hour with her lover was the mostembarrassing one of her life.
Another embarrassing silence out of which came scarcely a breath.
It was therefore under somewhat embarrassing circumstances that the dairy maid witnessed the embrace--embarrassing to all save the dog.
I exclaimed, my heart thumping like a pile-driver, as I realized my embarrassing predicament.
Some words which were exchanged by the two persons who walked at the head of the escort will give an idea of the new and embarrassing position of the chevalier.
The sight of an audience may beembarrassing or exciting.
From this embarrassing position, after a day or two more spent in unprofitable hostilities, he was surprised by a summons from his brother to return with all expedition to Cuzco, which was now besieged by the enemy!
The law which required a decision within five days would seem little suited to the complex and embarrassing litigation of a modern tribunal.
This was an embarrassing situation for the Spaniards, who seemed to be as wide from ascertaining the real disposition of the Peruvian monarch towards themselves, as when the mountains were between them.
Frankness--I may say embarrassing frankness is one of the young lady's drawbacks.
I find it a most delicate andembarrassing problem.
It was urged that this opposition must be embarrassing to his Administration, as well as damaging to the party.
This is anembarrassing question, but if you will give me a day or two to consider, I will give you an answer.
