Some hours later, Sweetwater re-entered the room, and, approaching Mr. Gryce with a smile, blurted out:
"The bulletin is a great go. I think - of course, I cannot be sure - that it's going to do the business. I've watched every one who stopped to read it. Many showed interest and many, emotion; she seems to have had a troop of friends. But embarrassment! only one showed that. I thought you would like to know."
"Embarrassment?英文原著 · 《Initials Only》
"None may sit upon a level with the gods," he admonished, stepping confidently up and seating himself upon the throne. The abashed Ko-tan showed his embarrassment, an embarrassment he feared to voice lest he incur the wrath of the king of kings.英文原著 · 《Tarzan the Terrible》
For the first time a real embarrassment appeared in the features of the accused,--the embarrassment of a man who suddenly sees an abyss opening before him. He hesitated; and, seeing that it was useless to deny, he said,--英文原著 · 《Within an Inch of His Life》
An elegant, irreproachable, high-minded model of dignity and reserve has just knocked and inquired what we will have for dinner. It is very embarrassing to give orders to a person who looks like a judge of the Supreme Court, but I said languidly, "What would you suggest?"英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》
I struck my horse with the whip and rode out from behind the bush. "Mon Dieu, un circassien!" . exclaimed Princess Mary in terror. In order completely to undeceive her, I replied in French, with a slight bow:
"Ne craignez rien, madame, je ne suis pas plus dangereux que votre cavalier" . She grew embarrassed -- but at what? At her own mistake, or because my answer struck her as insolent? I should like the latter hypothesis to be correct. Grushnitski cast a discontented glance at me.英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
He came to a dead stop. Grushnitski stood with his head sunk on his breast, embarrassed and gloomy. "Let them be!" he said at length to the cap- tain, who was going to pull my pistol out of the doctor's hands. "You know yourself that they are right."
In vain the captain made various signs to him. Grushnitski would not even look. Meanwhile the doctor had loaded the pistol and handed it to me. On seeing that, the captain spat and stamped his foot. "You are a fool, then, my friend," he said: "a common fool!英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
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