Embarras

Historical Examples of embarras

• I can easily enter into the embarras of your present situation.

  The Letters of Robert Burns

  Robert Burns

• Sometimes they had to force their way through an embarras, as the voyageurs call a pile of driftwood.

  The Young Alaskans on the Trail

  Emerson Hough

• The symptoms are such as belong to acute indigestion and the embarras gastrique of French authors.

  A System of Practical Medicine By American Authors, Vol. II

  Various

• A bibliography, if there be one, would be most likely an embarras de richesse.

  Papers and proceedings of the thirty-fifth general meeting of the American Library Association, 1913

  Various

• So thorough an illustration of an embarras des richesses is not often met with in history.

  The Comic History of Rome

  Gilbert Abbott Becket