"Incredulity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a fancy for two whole months, and the whole house not hear of it!" said her father, with a rather provoking look of incredulity. ...
— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge
... conclude that because it is beyond experience, it could not be. It is not a wise deduction, as I think Bickley would admit today, because without doubt many things are which surpass our extremely limited experience. However, those who draw the veil from the Unknown and reveal the New, must expect incredulity, and accept it without grumbling. Was that not the fate, for instance, of those who in the Middle Ages, a few hundred years ago, discovered, or rather rediscovered the mighty movements of those constellations which ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... eyeing the document with a puzzled expression. Gradually bewilderment changed to surprise, surprise to incredulity. ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield
... produced a profound sensation among the auditory; and though perhaps not one of them really believed the story, no one dared to give utterance to his incredulity. ...
— Wood Rangers - The Trappers of Sonora • Mayne Reid
... friend Ned, to inform him of this sad event, and to bring him back temporarily to town, for the purpose of hearing what were his prospects, and what disposition was now to be made of him. We shall not attempt to describe the grief, astonishment, and almost incredulity of Ned, on discovering that a person so mixed up with and built into his whole life as the stalwart Doctor Grimshawe had vanished out of it thus unexpectedly, like something thin as a vapor,—like a red flame, that one [instant] is very bright in its lurid ray, ...
— Doctor Grimshawe's Secret - A Romance • Nathaniel Hawthorne
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