Among the minor trials of life there are few which produce more awkwardness than the failure to provide suitable entertainment for a specially festive occasion.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
"We have more of that than anything else," Kingsnorth interjected, and to the Commissioner's hearty laugh, Martin added, "specially when it is moving N.N.E. eighty miles an hour."
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
It was rather more than an hour later when a specially invited company of men who had, as they said, a stake in the district assembled in the big general room of the hotel.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton