"Skeptical" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... moment there was silence in the room, then with a skeptical note of ridicule and challenge the hunchback demanded: "Why didn't ye go ter ...
— The Roof Tree • Charles Neville Buck
... no difference with me now," said I. "I am just as skeptical as if I hadn't a chance of conversion. Why, Doctor,—well, come now,—I'll argue the case with you. In the first place, all Church history is against you. There isn't a respectable author who upholds the doctrine of ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, Issue 35, September, 1860 • Various
... skeptical at first about the wisdom of entrusting such power as this to a subordinate but I put my case to him squarely. I said in brief that I was sure I could pick a gang of fifty men who would do the work of seventy-five. I told him that for a year now I had been making ...
— One Way Out - A Middle-class New-Englander Emigrates to America • William Carleton
... The Secretary looked skeptical. "Your discoveries were remarkably ... apt. And it does seem clear that they made the appearance of hunting you, while going to some pains not to catch you. Mr. Coburn, how can ...
— The Invaders • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... pretty far gone, and all the more inclined to be skeptical. Mr. Walraven saw it, and knew that appearances were dead against him, ...
— The Unseen Bridgegroom - or, Wedded For a Week • May Agnes Fleming
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