1 I am always involving myself in some scrape or other, by acting on impulse.
2 That Louisa must remain where she was, however distressing to her friends to be involving the Harvilles in such trouble, did not admit a doubt.
3 Most earnestly did she labour to prove the probability of error, and seek to clear the one without involving the other.
4 In all operations on a large scale on this and his other estates, he kept to the simplest methods involving no risk, and in trifling details he was careful and exacting to an extreme degree.
5 Her glimpse of tasks involving millions of people and a score of nations reduced Main Street from bloated importance to its actual pettiness.
6 For in making war upon the Sidicinians and afterwards on the Campanians, the Samnites had no thought of involving themselves with the Romans.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX. 7 Bad women and all they involved were mysterious and revolting matters to her.
8 "Why--" began Uncle Henry, irritated at the feminine mind which thought only of personal things when broad issues were involved.
9 Scarlett knew the effort this involved both mentally and physically, for Melanie suffered torments of shyness in the presence of anything male.
10 I'm sorry to have involved him and the others in such a--a-- But I had to think fast when I rode away from here and that was the only plan that occurred to me.
11 The ramifications of cousins, double cousins, cousins-in-law and kissing cousins were so intricate and involved that no one but a born Georgian could ever unravel them.
12 She watched it jealously, as though it were her own property and Lily its mere custodian; and she tried to instil into the latter a sense of the responsibility that such a charge involved.
13 I seize the distinction, but I don't mind it, since doing the one involved doing the other.
14 She could not remain at Bellomont without playing bridge, and being involved in other expenses; and to continue her usual series of autumn visits would merely prolong the same difficulties.
15 Carry had in fact come dangerously near to being involved in the episode of Mrs. Norma Hatch, and it had taken some verbal ingenuity to extricate herself.