"Dubiety" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and battled a conflict of desires. For one moment they seemed flaming at her from the dark, like some wild creature ready to spring; the next moment they were human, recognizable. She read there grudging admiration, arrested ardor, irresolution, dubiety, and ...
— The Palace of Darkened Windows • Mary Hastings Bradley
... an increasing dubiety whether Mrs MANKLETOW is verily such an upper crustacean and habituee of the beau monde as she did represent herself to be. It is well-nigh incomprehensible that any individual should seek to appear of a higher social status than Nature has provided; but my youthful ...
— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey
... he has never questioned. I have studied the philosophies; I have reflected on life—this unfathomable problem—and 'fore God I begin to doubt my very right to wear a breastplate against the poignard of fate. Dubiety plays on me ...
— John Splendid - The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn • Neil Munro
... consequence of the heavy swell of sea, came in his boat to the beacon-house to consult with the writer as to the propriety of venturing the loaded praam-boats with their cargoes to the rock while so much sea was running. After some dubiety expressed on the subject, in which the ardent mind of the landing-master suggested many arguments in favour of his being able to convey the praams in perfect safety, it was acceded to. In bad weather, and especially on occasions of difficulty like the present, Mr. Wilson, who was an extremely ...
— Records of a Family of Engineers • Robert Louis Stevenson
... he turned to stare with an expression of whimsical dubiety and thereafter fell to rubbing his unshaven chin as rather ...
— Peregrine's Progress • Jeffery Farnol
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