Complications
[,kɑmplə'keʃən]
Examples
- It surpassed any complications of intrigue in her favourite Pigault le Brun. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Unless there turn out to be further complications, such as I have not at present detected--yes, said Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It involved mechanical complications that seemed to be insurmountable, and up to the time Edison invented his perforating machine no really good method was available. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Plato does not appear to have analysed the complications which arise out of the collective action of mankind. Plato. The Republic.
- It is difficult to decide as to the possible effect of long-standing complications; but the man had a robust constitution to begin with. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To all other emergencies and complications my natural capacity for grappling, single-handed, with circumstances, was invariably equal. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But we cannot go further into these complications of Asiatic theology. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Look at what complications of numbers. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Enough, enough--there was an end to man's capacity for complications, even. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I don't deny that there are peculiar complications in this case; but the case itself is, most unhappily, common--common. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Look at what complications. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- These are complications beyond our present scope. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As he spoke, he was checked by an embarrassing sense of the complications to which this might lead. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And the fact in itself still seemed harmless enough; only it was a fertile source of harmful complications. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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