much-embarrassed

Updated: June 6, 2025

'Here is a young fellow now, said the Justice, with much-embarrassed looks, 'thinks that I carry the whole statute law of England in my head, and a POSSE COMITATUS to execute them in my pocket! Why, what good would my interference do? but hum eh I will speak to your guardian in your favour. He took Mr.

Sir Walter Scott - Redgauntlet