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Her very virtues are enemies of her peace; if she appears as a constant check and monitor, she repels; if she weakly acquiesces, the stream will flow over both of them. The dilemma seems hopeless. It would be a mistake to suppose that either Edith or Jack put their relations in any such definite shape as this. He was unthinking.
And when he drove on a quarter of a mile, he found himself in a most unpleasant dilemma, the two horns being two roads, concerning which those who directed him had neglected to give him any advice. Katy had been here before, and she was very sure that to the right hand was the road.
'A disguised detective is a thing to see! she declared; and then, when she had looked me over and marvelled at the fit of my wig, she turned to her niece: 'June, child, did thee speak of our dilemma? 'Auntie, you must give me time! her face flushing rosily. 'Time indeed! did not this young man's card say, 'A moment. In haste'? And can we entertain this strange young man by the hour?
I trust, Willoughby, you will not stop these prayers, in your settlement?" "It is the last mode in which I should choose to show hostility. Still, you must allow it is a little too much to ask a congregation to pray that the king shall overcome his enemies, when they are among those very enemies? The question presents a dilemma."
Ellis, a man of elegant tastes and poetical temperament, on one of these occasions, at his country-house, assured a literary friend, that when driven to the last, he usually made his escape by a leap out of the window; and Boileau has noticed a similar dilemma when at the villa of the President Lamoignon, while they were holding their delightful conversations in his grounds.
In this dilemma, little Dick offered him his part of the bed, if his brother Moses would let him lie with him; 'And I, cried Bill, 'will give Mr Burchell my part, if my sisters will take me to theirs. 'Well done, my good children, cried I, 'hospitality is one of the first Christian duties.
Captain Tracy was in a dilemma; he might obtain a cargo for the vessel, but then he would have to wait for a convoy, as no insurance could otherwise be effected on her, and that would cause a delay. Rather than suffer this, he resolved to sell his patrimony, though very unwilling to do so.
"Here, ye auld doited deevil," said Caleb, still exulting in his extrication from a dilemma which had seemed insurmountable; "keep the strange man out of the kitchen; swear the thunner came down the chimney and spoiled the best dinner ye ever dressed beef bacon kid lark leveret wild-fowl venison, and what not. Lay it on thick, and never mind expenses.
She ordered her maid to bring away an old glove of Guynemer's which was lying on a chest of drawers, and replace it by a magnificent bouquet. "This lady put me in a nice dilemma," Guynemer explained, "as it was Sunday and there was no way of getting any more gloves."
They had enlisted to fight, not to starve, and they murmured that it was better for an army to fall with weapons in its hands than to drop to pieces hourly with the enemy looking on and enjoying their agony. It was obvious to Farnese that there were but two ways out of his dilemma.
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