He saw clearly enough the embroilment into which Lionel had landed himself; but he could not see so clearly how he was to get out of it.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
She was sick at heart to think that in return for the unceasing kindness Lionel had shown her since her arrival in England, she should be the means of drawing him into this foolish embroilment.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
And even to-day, when the great majority feel that the universal embroilment has caused civilized man to fall from his laboriously achieved level, this sage in his lofty solitude feels the redeeming spiritual connotation of our great calamity.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller