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Updated: May 16, 2025
Can you not conceive of a plight being all the worse because there is no provision for it?" "It is unthinkable that a woman like you, of evident refinement and education, should find herself in the predicament you describe." "Then thank God for being a rebel, if it will make you ponder on what is new, untried, and not according to formula.
He draws an amusing picture of his predicament a sort of Venus and Adonis affair, with a homely Venus: "She is not satisfied with my being two hours every day with her, I am to sit there the livelong day while she tries to be agreeable. But, worse still, she is seriously smitten with me. I thought at first it was a joke, but now I know it to be a fact.
Besides, I come over for the ten o'clock train, and I'm back for the milk train before daylight." Something about this speech convinced Tavia she was unfortunate, and it would be best to keep her trouble to herself, for what would strangers care about her predicament? Could she deny that it was through her own fault that she had been thus situated?
He died of a lingering disorder, augmented by the unpleasant predicament of suspicion in which he stood, having been obliged to find bail to a high amount, to meet an impending accusation of high-treason.
But how could she excuse herself, how withdraw, especially in the face of Joe's challenging gaze? The stamping increased; the men clapped; and there were shouts: "Come ahead! Come on! That's right, Miss." It was a cruel test, a wicked predicament. All the old timidity and sensitiveness of her nature held her back, made her tremble, and bathed her face in perspiration.
Other fellows, at my age, in such a predicament, would have whined shaved only twice a week, and written verses. I did none of the three the last indeed I tried, but, to my infinite surprise, I found my genius was not universal. I began with "'Sweet nymph, for whom I wake my muse. "For this, after considerable hammering, I could only think of the rhyme 'shoes' so I began again,
I did not like to add to Hartog's anxieties by telling him of Van Luck's conduct, and, indeed, when I considered our present predicament, it seemed unlikely that Van Luck, or anybody else, could do us much harm or good. And now another event occurred to add to our perplexities. The kelp around the vessel suddenly became alive with a small species of black crab.
The boy attached the towing cable to a windlass on the platform of the Sea Lion, turned on the power, and the sinking craft soon lay alongside. She was indeed in a bad predicament. Another half hour would see the last of her. "Now," Ned said, "we don't know what those fellows will try to do when the hatch is lifted. I've known snakes to sting the hand that fed and warmed them.
To swallow it he found utterly impossible, now that the horrors of both taste and smell were full upon him. In this predicament, Donald had no other way for it but to give back what he had taken; and this course he instantly followed, adding a large interest, and exclaiming "My Cot! what sort of a country is this?
In our predicament and in so critical an emergency, our only alternative was to apply to our old curate for advice. "He gave us words of encouragement, and withdrew with our elders to his room. We remained in the churchyard, grouped together and speaking in whispers, our souls harrowed by the most gloomy and despairing thoughts. "Ah!
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