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It commences with an embarrassment of the motions of the tongue    1845  1
an embarrassment of speech    1887  2
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embarrassment in breathing, and intense mental anxiety    1859  3
embarrassment of the situation    1892
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embarrassment, just what he thought about the bird    1834  4
embarrassment of action    1853
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embarrassment before numbers    1833  5
embarrassment of the young calculator    1821
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embarrassment of those new counsels and connections    1809
in love with clogs, impediments, and embarrasments [sic], as too too many seem to be    1694  6
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an embarrassment of this description    1861
that these speculations ended in embarrassment and loss    1852
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embarrassment of having nothing to say    1834  7
embarrassment of declaring which was first in her mind    1907  8
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the slight embarrassment of the timid stranger    1841  9
embarrassment of his affairs    1891  10
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There had been a long silence, broken only by those anxious attentions to each other's personal comfort, with which people endeavour to smooth down the embarrassment of an intercourse apparently confidential, into which some sudden    1869  11
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his trouble lies in an embarrassment of rich material    1900
1
James Copland. A Dictionary of Practical Medicine (1845), insanity, symptoms (of) : 507
2
James Ross. On Aphasia, Being a Contribution to the Subject of the Dissolution of Speech from Cerebral Disease (1887) : 57
3
Samuel David Gross (1805-1884 *). System of Surgery : Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative Vol. 2 (1859; 1872) : 558
4
Maria Edworth (1768-1849 *), "The Forester" (1833) : 23
5
ibid. (1833) : 39
6
Edmund Calamy (1671-1732 *), A Funeral Sermon Preach'd at the Internment of Mr. Samuel Stephens : For Some Time Employ'd in the Work of the Ministry, in this City : who Departed Life the Fifth of January, 1693/4 in the Twenty Eighth Year of His Age (1694), via OED
7
Maria Edgeworth, preface, "Irish Bulls" (1834) : 95
8
Henri Van Dyke (1852-1933), Days Off, and other digressions (1907) : 119
9
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851 *), The pioneers : or The sources of the Susquehanna ; a descriptive tale (1823) : 158
10
Charles Bradlaugh (1833-1891 *) and Annie Besant (1847-1933 *). Fruits of Philosophy : A Treatise on the Population Question (October 1891) : 59
11
Mrs. [Margaret] Oliphant (1828-97). Salem Chapel (1869) : 122