Difficulties
['dɪfə,kʌltiz] or ['dɪfə,kʌltɪz]
Definition
(pl. ) of Difficulty
Inputed by Joanna
Examples
- Difficulties arise when we try to apply this wisdom in the present. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Seriously hoping that all our difficulties may be settled without the loss of another life, I subscribe myself, etc. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- To avoid difficulties it is always us who do it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- I am too ardent in execution, and too impatient of difficulties. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- And by reason of the employment of such vision in the past, Edison is now able to see quite clearly through the forest of difficulties after eliminating them one by one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- People make much more of their difficulties than they need to do. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Men began to doubt whether the new engine could ever be made to accomplish what Watt claimed for it, but although he realized the difficulties the inventor would not allow himself to doubt. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- You must begin your improvements on this house, observed Elinor, and your difficulties will soon vanish. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Turning to geographical distribution, the difficulties encountered on the theory of descent with modification are serious enough. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I explain very carefully so that you understand and that you understand all of the possible difficulties and the importance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He had confessed a taste for the pursuit of love under difficulties; here was full gratification for that taste. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The father of one of his students was engaged in the manufacture of alcohol from beetroot sugar, and Pasteur came to be consulted when difficulties arose in the manufacturing process. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Having got over my difficulties with the ladies, I found more difficulties waiting for me when I went back to my own room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But on Friday night he must be in town, having a Ladies' Charity, in difficulties, waiting to consult him on Saturday morning. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Yet I think such difficulties have little weight. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- We shall certainly find some way out of your difficulties. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- In the overcoming of difficulties he has the same intellectual pleasure as the chess-master when confronted with a problem requiring all the efforts of his skill and experience to solve. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One of the difficulties in silo construction is to avoid spreading of the building, which sometimes occurs through lateral pressure of the contents when settling. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- He believed that Free Trade would tend to abolish many of the difficulties that divided nations, and he wrote a paper on that subject, addressed to the French Directory. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The impossibility of obtaining a uniform concentrate was a most serious objection, had there not indeed been other difficulties which rendered this method commercially impracticable. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The idea was not a new one, but the men who had studied it had decided that there were too many difficulties to overcome. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- But these cases are so wonderful that they were introduced as difficulties or objections to our theory. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- If his progress downward had been attended with difficulties and uncertainty, his journey back was infinitely more perplexing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have advised a prodigious number of clients, and have dealt with some exceedingly awkward difficulties, in my time. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Here is a talisman will remove all difficulties;' and she held out a pretty gold ring. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- There are certainly grave difficulties in the way, said he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Fanny has conquered any such little difficulties, and--hum--why not you? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I should have so exceedingly regretted our place having had anything to do with your difficulties. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- That will obviate all difficulties you know; and from _us_ I really think, my dear Jane, you can have no scruple to accept such an accommodation. Jane Austen. Emma.
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