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"Embarrassment" Quotes from Famous Books

... I am," replied the maroon, wriggling like an eel in his embarrassment. "And," he added, after a long pause, "how do, Mr. Silver? Pretty well, I thank ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... improvement in James, and imputing it rather to Ethelyn's influence than her own, was thus saved from any embarrassment she might have experienced had she known to a certainty how large a share of James Markham's thoughts and affections she possessed. She was frequently at the farmhouse; but had not made what her mother called a visit until the afternoon ...

— Ethelyn's Mistake • Mary Jane Holmes

... he hardly seemed the same man who had dominated his people a few days before. He turned with still greater embarrassment. ...

— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... passage from a book, which my escort said was the sacred writing in Sanskrit laying down rules and regulations for the government of Hindu wives. But the bride and groom paid very little attention to the priests or to the ceremony. After the first embarrassment was over they chatted familiarly with their friends, both foreign and native, who came and squatted down beside them. The bride's mother came quietly into the circle after a while and sat down beside her son-in-law—a slight woman, whose ...

— Modern India • William Eleroy Curtis

... feel no embarrassment," he said, kindly. "I really want you to come,—unless, indeed, it ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various

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