EMBARRASSMENT in Classic Quotes
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1 Elizabeth was too much embarrassed to say a word.
2 I know my own strength, and I shall never be embarrassed again by his coming.
3 With astonishment did Elizabeth see that her new acquaintance was at least as much embarrassed as herself.
4 Bingley, she had likewise seen for an instant, and in that short period saw him looking both pleased and embarrassed.
5 It was not to be supposed that time would give Lydia that embarrassment from which she had been so wholly free at first.
6 She had instinctively turned away; but stopping on his approach, received his compliments with an embarrassment impossible to be overcome.
7 As for the gentleman himself, his feelings were chiefly expressed, not by embarrassment or dejection, or by trying to avoid her, but by stiffness of manner and resentful silence.
8 Her uncle and aunt were all amazement; and the embarrassment of her manner as she spoke, joined to the circumstance itself, and many of the circumstances of the preceding day, opened to them a new idea on the business.
9 Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy than felt herself to be so; for, besides the immediate embarrassment, there were other evils before her.
10 Georgiana's reception of them was very civil, but attended with all the embarrassment which, though proceeding from shyness and the fear of doing wrong, would easily give to those who felt themselves inferior the belief of her being proud and reserved.
11 Presuming however, that this studied avoidance spoke rather a momentary embarrassment than any dislike of the proposal, and seeing in her husband, who was fond of society, a perfect willingness to accept it, she ventured to engage for her attendance, and the day after the next was fixed on.
12 Amazed at the alteration of his manner since they last parted, every sentence that he uttered was increasing her embarrassment; and every idea of the impropriety of her being found there recurring to her mind, the few minutes in which they continued were some of the most uncomfortable in her life.