What folly to keep ourselves continually in a false position by our extravagant outlays; to be reduced to have recourse to a thousand petty means of freeing ourselves from the embarrassments in which our love of dress has involved us.
It is easy to perceive, from what is said by Mr. Burke, the embarrassments that must fall upon the mother country, in the event of a rebellion in the North American colonies.
Most humiliating may be theembarrassments consequent upon such a condition.
The ravages of fire and disease have painfully afflicted otherwise flourishing portions of our country, and serious embarrassments yet derange the trade of many of our cities.
That embarrassments in the pecuniary concerns of individuals of unexampled extent and duration have recently existed in this as in other commercial nations is undoubtedly true.
It is to his credit that he felt the embarrassments which his subject caused.
There were suspicions, too, that some of the embarrassments which confronted Mr. Gye and the Metropolitan directors were due to the machinations of that sly and persuasive old dog, Colonel Mapleson.
With great labor and many embarrassments the College furniture, laboratories and libraries had been transferred from Boydton to Ashland, under the special superintendence of Rev.
Under all the embarrassments and difficulties of the situation, this number was as great as could have been expected.
This action has been considered, and rightly so, to have been for the time and under the embarrassments of the surroundings the most important and efficient ever taken by the Board.
Encountering some embarrassments in their application for letters-patent of nobility, the subject was set aside for the time, and was never after renewed.
What were the embarrassments likely to arise therein?
While in our external relations some serious inconveniences and embarrassments have been overcome, and others lessened, it is with much pain and deep regret I mention that circumstances of a very unwelcome nature have lately occurred.
It will afford you satisfaction to infer the great extent and solidity of the public resources, from the prosperous state of the finances, notwithstanding the unexampled embarrassments which have attended commerce.
Surely, sir, the law is uncertain enough in itself, and its paths sufficiently intricate and tedious, not to require that your suitors should be burdened with additional embarrassments by the organization of your courts.
These difficulties and embarrassments banished suitors from the court, and without more than a common motive, recourse was seldom had to the Federal tribunals.
Sheltered from the material embarrassments of life, I am going to work seriously; I shall finish my great work, and gain a settled place in public opinion.
It was impossible that this could continue, without involving the Crown in such embarrassments as would leave it wholly at the mercy of parliament.
But these are, after all, only instances of embarrassmentscommon {p.
The country was fast getting rich, it is true, under the advantages of its neutral position; but it had not yet been long enough emancipated from its embarrassments to think of playing the nabob on eight hundred pounds currency a-year.
It is not easy to make a landsman understand the embarrassments of our situation.
Member, the new, embarrassments of, in the House, 61 et seq.
The chief embarrassments have arisen, not from deficits, but from surpluses.
This I presume alludes to the embarrassments which the strange conduct of Gouverneur Morris had occasioned, and which, I well know, had created suspicions of the sincerity of Mr. Washington.
Every day adds new strength to France and new embarrassments to her enemy.
But however the project of a partition may at first blind the eyes of the confederacy, or however each of them may hope to outwit the other in the progress or in the end, the embarrassments that will arise are insurmountable.
A failure in the finances of the Old Congress of America, and the embarrassments it brought upon commerce, broke up the system of the old confederation, and produced the federal Constitution.
Embarrassments occasioned by the instruction to communicate on all matters with the French Ministers.
The Court of France continues to manifest the same generous conduct towards us as ever, notwithstanding its own embarrassments for money.
One of the results of the financial embarrassments of the Confederacy was the great and growing depreciation of its paper currency.
This threw us unexpectedly upon messengers as the only go-betweens, and led to the embarrassments which have been described.
Slaves, common belief among, that property of whites was to be taken away and divided among them; difficulties in getting them to work; embarrassments of housekeepers.
Along with the graver embarrassments which General Grant found in organizing his armies for a new campaign were smaller ones, which though sometimes concerned with trivial matters were not on that account likely to be less annoying.
The embarrassments of army commanders had been very bluntly explained to the War Department in the confidential dispatches of Mr. Dana from Chattanooga.
Haydon's financial embarrassments were perhaps the least of his trials.
He ascribed it to pressure of business, and some pecuniary embarrassments which, at that time, occurred to him; it was of little consequence to Mary what was the cause.
The one point they are agreed upon is that the promulgation of the new dogma will cause great embarrassments to the Church and to themselves personally, and involve them in all sorts of conflicts.
No subtle manager or broker ever saw through a maze of financial embarrassments half so quick as a poor book-buyer sees his way clear to pay for what he must have.
You must learn to do hard if not unjust things; and for the nice embarrassments of a delicate and ingenuous spirit, it is necessary for you to get rid of them as fast as possible.
I know nothing whatever, of course, about the statements in the papers, which I never look at, about the financial disgraces and embarrassments in America.
Care has been taken to so shape the document as to avoid embarrassments from this source.
That will take you a long time, Sheila, and you may have many annoyances or embarrassments to encounter; but you won’t be very much afraid, my girl?
The close of a negotiation is wont to drop the curtain over embarrassments that everybody is glad to forget;(229) but the obstacles to an exact agreement were not easily overcome.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "embarrassments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
