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Updated: May 19, 2025
"The value of a thing," says Say, "is a positive quantity, but only for a given moment. It is its nature to perpetually vary, to change from one point to another. Nothing can fix it absolutely, because it is based on needs and means of production which vary with every moment. These variations complicate economical phenomena, and often render them very difficult of observation and solution.
I'm known as a follower of Jaffier; and since you go to The Pleiad, the only really suitable place to live, you'd only complicate your standing in the community by being seen with me. If The Pleiad should happen to be invested in a siege, I'll see you comfortably quartered elsewhere. In any case, I am at your service."
At such times, however, unforeseen events invariably intruded to complicate her feelings and alter her plans.
Here the case is quite different; for though there are no shrouds or stays to complicate the matter, yet scarcely anything can be done without first clearing something else out of the way.
Flora Harris will no doubt withdraw from the cast simply to complicate matters." "Mrs. Curtis," said Madge with compelling directness, "would you rather I should apologize to Flora Harris?" Mrs. Curtis eyed Madge reflectively. "I don't know, my dear," she hesitated. "I am going to do it!" cried Madge, springing to her feet.
To do so might complicate matters with the ladies. As they entered the Via del Popolo, and drew near to the Piazza di Masaniello, his excitement increased, stirred by the sight of the crowds of people, who were all streaming in the same direction past the iron rails of the port, beyond which, above the long and ghostly sheds that skirt the sea, rose the tapering masts of vessels lying at anchor.
Why should we complicate our task and spend in needless struggle the energies we might give to love and to our brother? His wife turned to him. There was trouble in her look, then a swift lovely dawn of something indescribable. Newcome moved away with a gesture that was half bitterness, half weariness.
In due course I was bedded down at Adobe by my old friend the Captain, and then lay thinking of this cavalry business. It is a subject which thought does not simplify, but, like other great things, makes it complicate and recede from its votaries. To know essential details from unessential details is the study in all arts. Details there must be; they are the small things that make the big things.
Vincent's death may complicate matters still more. Then he checks his own selfish thought. "Can I drive in?" he asks. "Oh, yes, there is a little stable. Master meant to get ma'm'selle a pony. Poor girl!" They both alight. Floyd fastens the horse and follows his guide. "Monsieur will please walk up stairs, this way." The hall is small, square, and dark.
Had the United States at that time adopted compulsory measures and taken redress into their own hands, all our difficulties with Mexico would probably have been long since adjusted and the existing war have been averted. Magnanimity and moderation on our part only had the effect to complicate these difficulties and render an amicable settlement of them the more embarrassing.
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