"Dilemma" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... as to choosing the means of living; for he was well supplied, as far as that was concerned; but here was a most unpleasant dilemma in ...
— Minnie's Sacrifice • Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
... in a chair too! How strange it seemed! He had not seated himself in a chair now for a very, very long time, and it seemed almost tiresome and awkward; but all the same it did nothing to help him out of his dilemma. ...
— The Silver Canyon - A Tale of the Western Plains • George Manville Fenn
... only altered,) copied from a book published some years ago in Europe, under the title of 'The Gates of Hell opened.' We have not seen in your paper any correction of this aspersion, although the assertion of it has placed you in a dilemma; for, if such were the fact, as you asserted, the Montreal affidavits would have little application to the case. Besides, that book, having proceeded from Catholics, and relating, as was intimated, to scenes in European ...
— Awful Disclosures - Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published • Maria Monk
... common with all relating to him, tended to keep Elfride's mind upon the stretch concerning Knight. As was her custom when upon the horns of a dilemma, she walked off by herself among the laurel bushes, and there, standing still and splitting up a leaf without removing it from its stalk, fetched back recollections of Stephen's frequent words in praise of his friend, and wished she had listened more attentively. ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy
... know the lines," said Patty, delighted at this solution of the dilemma, but unable to see how ...
— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells
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