"Dubiously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which of you I am to believe, or if either is telling me the truth?" said the superintendent dubiously, half aloud and half ...
— Cab and Caboose - The Story of a Railroad Boy • Kirk Munroe
... Then replied Sun Wei dubiously: "A spreading mango-tree affords a pleasant shade within one's courtyard, and a captive god might for a season undoubtedly confer an enviable distinction. But presently the tree's encroaching roots may disturb the foundation of the house so that the walls fall and crush those ...
— Kai Lung's Golden Hours • Ernest Bramah
... affair. A woman may present no difficulties to the most fastidiously bred man, and yet be found wanting in a thousand particulars by the women of his social class. As the two emerged from the hotel, Isabelle looked dubiously at ...
— Together • Robert Herrick (1868-1938)
... eyes dubiously upon his sleeve; yet the little maid seemed positive. Perhaps, after all, there ...
— Master Skylark • John Bennett
... possessions as well as the secret life of Bibbs Sheridan, and Bibbs sat beside it, the day after his interview with his father, raking over a small collection of manuscripts in the top tray. Some of these he glanced through dubiously, finding little comfort in them; but one made him smile. Then he shook his head ruefully indeed, and ruefully began to read it. It was written on paper stamped "Hood Sanitarium," and bore the ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington
... Blandford, dubiously. "You see," he began, argumentatively, "in my business there's a good deal of competition, and I was only saying ...
— The Argonauts of North Liberty • Bret Harte
... her spinning-wheel in a way that had become an alarm signal. Eli Kirke glanced dubiously to the blasphemy box, as though my words were actionable. There was no sound but the drone of the loom till I slipped from the room. Then they both began to talk. Soon after came transfer from the counting-house to the fur trade. ...
— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut
... know a thing," Van confessed laughing. "Dad has never talked to me much about his business. He is too busy to talk to anybody," he added a little dubiously. ...
— The Story of Sugar • Sara Ware Bassett
... I assented somewhat dubiously, however. "That was a rail fence we took a pull at back in the lane, wasn't it? Of course, if we shouldn't happen to clear the stone fence as well as we did the rail fence, ...
— Our Next-Door Neighbors • Belle Kanaris Maniates
... devised that our poor fellows in the Provost below, and on that floating hell, the 'Jersey,' may offer it boldly and unrebuked in the very teeth of their jailors! Lord! But that would be a rare bit o' verse—if it could be accomplished," he added dubiously. ...
— The Hidden Children • Robert W. Chambers
... a man very queer indeed, who was muttering to himself, and filling his pocket full of stones. After a little silence, they nodded to each other with a knowing look, and said with one consent, 'He's as crazy as a coot.' They approached Mr. Shaw, dubiously. 'See his eyes!' said they; 'aint they wild? Mister?' ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, June 1844 - Volume 23, Number 6 • Various
... and the horse dubiously. "Jest as soon set a woman to drivin' the devil as that old white," volunteered the man who was cleaning the bay. The young man stood gaping ...
— Madelon - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... think it will carry the five of us with safety?" asked the circus man, as he gazed rather dubiously at the ...
— Tom Swift in Captivity • Victor Appleton
... dunno," said Johnny Connolly dubiously when the suggestion that the filly should be ridden there and then was made to him a few minutes later; "wouldn't ye wait till I put her a few turns under the cart, or maybe threw a sack o' ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross
... he stepped back into the cage, rang the bell, and vanished, leaving us standing there eyeing each other a little dubiously at finding ourselves left to our own guidance, four hundred feet below the surface ...
— The Boys of Crawford's Basin - The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado • Sidford F. Hamp
... was at first convulsed, familiar with Teuton naivete. Then he dubiously shook his head. To Jim's unexpected discomfort the affair was regarded seriously. If he had not ejaculated this affront, something could be done. But now he had been guilty of what the Germans might rightfully ...
— Villa Elsa - A Story of German Family Life • Stuart Henry
... terrible!" burst out Hans. "Poor Fred! Und poor Songpird! Vot vill der folks say ven da hear dot?" And he shook his head, dubiously. ...
— The Rover Boys in Southern Waters - or The Deserted Steam Yacht • Arthur M. Winfield
... the first one in the class-room and wondered in a moment of panic if he was in the right place. He sat down dubiously and looked at his watch. Four minutes left. He would wait two, and then if nobody came he would—he gasped; he couldn't imagine what he would do. How could he find the right class-room? Maybe his class didn't come at this ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... wind, and crept stealthily in the direction of the game, approaching unperceived until within a few hundred yards. Some old bulls forming the outer picket guard slowly raised their heads and gazed long and dubiously at the strange objects, when, discovering that the intruders were not wolves, but two hunters, they gave a significant grunt, turned about as though on pivots, and in less than no time the whole herd—bulls, cows, and calves—were making ...
— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman
... demurred Andy dubiously, "I haven't much heart for frolic. I'm expelled, you know, ...
— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness
... together," said Stella pesimistically. "Cat-fights in the orchard o'nights are bad enough. But cat-fights here in the livingroom are unthinkable." In due time Aunt Jamesina arrived. Anne and Priscilla and Phil had awaited her advent rather dubiously; but when Aunt Jamesina was enthroned in the rocking chair before the open fire they figuratively bowed down and ...
— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... man looked dubiously round, but finding himself in a minority, assumed a compassionate air, ...
— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes
... think you ought to go down to Riverton without someone responsible to look after you," objected Mrs. St. Orme dubiously. ...
— The Odds - And Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... to dampen their ardor, and Mrs. Dallas, rather dubiously, consented, but charged them not to eat under cooked ...
— A Sweet Little Maid • Amy E. Blanchard
... and in colors so faint and pale, that the subjects could barely be conjectured. A dull, semi-transparent mist had been thrown over the surface of the canvas, into which the figures seemed to vanish while the eye sought most earnestly to fix them. But in every scene, however dubiously portrayed, Mr. Smith was invariably haunted by his own lineaments at various ages as in a dusty mirror. After poring several minutes over one of these blurred and almost indistinguishable pictures, he began to see that the painter had intended to represent him, now in the decline of life, ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... The man stared dubiously on her, and Sally, mother to five hundred wild rangers, knew the symptoms of a man eager for a confidant. She slipped ...
— Trailin'! • Max Brand
... Regina spoke dubiously, and looked down at the new pet, who wagged his plumy tail as if to deprecate the punishment of such ...
— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson
... storekeeper answered. "Still, if you want them special, and will pay me what they're worth to-morrow, I'll oblige you, and even lend you a set of drills. But you'll come back sure, and not lose any of them drills?" he added dubiously. ...
— Thurston of Orchard Valley • Harold Bindloss
... They turned and looked dubiously at the town—a row of perhaps seventy iron-walled and palm-roofed houses set on high palm-trunk poles, each with its ladder dropping from the doorway to the one muddy street. Then spoke ...
— The Pathless Trail • Arthur O. (Arthur Olney) Friel
... Fie, for shame!" "Nay, Mrs. Behrens, I don't see that. Am I not as good as the young gray-hound any day? And don't our ages suit better?" And as he spoke he looked as innocently surprised at her displeasure as if he had proposed the best possible way out of the difficulty. Mrs. Behrens looked at him dubiously, and then said, folding her hands on her lap: "Braesig, I'll trust to you to say nothing you ought not to say. But Braesig—dear Braesig, do nothing absurd. And * * * and * * * come and sit down, and drink a cup of coffee." ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VIII • Various
... girl from any of the three lower classes appeared she was approached by some of the former and a great deal of whispering and subdued laughter went on. A few girls were seen to shake their heads dubiously, and a number of those termed "grinds" were not interviewed. The majority, however, appeared to be highly delighted over what they heard, one group standing near one of the windows, of which Eleanor was the center, laughed so loudly that they were ...
— Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School - Or, Fast Friends in the Sororities • Jessie Graham Flower
... leave the hotel on account of drummers on the night train," said Mary Bell, dubiously. "And that's the very time mama gets most scared. She's always afraid there are boes on ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... Magsie and Vi might take us behind them on their bicycles," suggested Wendy dubiously. "Hodson's would know if they've gone. They were to call for some ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... her lap, striving for some expression of her desire to heal, to care for, to restore to life the broken sister that fate had cast into her hands. Mrs. Meeker came and peered over the side of the cart, shaking her head dubiously. ...
— Treasure and Trouble Therewith - A Tale of California • Geraldine Bonner
... while to direct his steps towards the village, which, as we had as yet examined none of their houses, I was most desirous of entering under my friend's sanction. I think he suspected something, for he looked at me rather dubiously when I directed our steps towards the entrance in the bush which led to the houses, and wanted me to go back; but I was urgent, so he gave way, and we both entered the open space, where we were joined by two or three others, and sat ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
... fell dangerously ill, and felt his end approaching. He looked sorrowfully and dubiously upon his young and tender spouse, who hung over him with tears and sobbings. "Alas!" said he, "tears are soon dried from youthful eyes, and sorrow lies lightly on a youthful heart. In a little while thou wilt ...
— The Crayon Papers • Washington Irving
... bit dubiously. "I am afraid Aunt Julia will rebel at this, old fellow; but Archibald's got fast hold of you, and I simply can't ...
— Patricia • Emilia Elliott
... Hugh, dubiously, and he touched him rather awkwardly—he had never noticed a baby closely before, and he was not much impressed with his son's appearance; there was such a redness, he thought, and no features to be called features, and he had such a ridiculous ...
— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... exploding in storm piercing tones). Bring in the prisoners. Tell the lady those are my orders. Do you hear? Tell her so. (The bluejacket goes out dubiously. The officers look at one another in mute comment on the unaccountable pepperiness of ...
— Captain Brassbound's Conversion • George Bernard Shaw
... captain sniffed, dubiously. "We'll get a chance to see about that later on, Mrs. Huzzard. But it's like your—hem! tender heart to have a good word for all comers, and this is only another ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... young men looked at each other dubiously, though each had an earnest desire to please. They groped for human understanding, and suddenly that clammy, discouraged feeling spread its muffling wall between them. Billy was the first ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester
... of Eugene, who stood beside the bed, the injured arm might have suffered seriously from the effects of her excitement. "Ah!" she cried, weeping with joy; "my Bambin, my dear Bambin! He is found then,—he is safe, and I shall see him again!" "Bambin!" repeated I, dubiously. "Monsieur Grellois thought that his name was Antoine!" The rosy color deepened under her delicate cheeks and crept to the roots of her braided hair. "No," she replied in a lower tone, "monsieur is mistaken. My dog's name ...
— Dreams and Dream Stories • Anna (Bonus) Kingsford
... charge of the larger boat, of which Johnnie, as hostess, was captain, and a jolly group of little boys and girls made the echoes ring, while Ned, with his thumb in his mouth, clung close to his mother, and regarded the nautical expedition rather dubiously. They swept across the flats to the deeper water near Plum Point, and so up the Moodna, whose shores were becoming green with the rank growth of the bordering marsh. Passing under an old covered bridge they ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... Harthouse, taking a turn or two across the room, dubiously, 'it's so alarmingly absurd. It would make a man so ridiculous, after going in for these fellows, to back out ...
— Hard Times • Charles Dickens*
... young," he said dubiously. "I don't fancy her conversation would be very interesting, and, after all, that is what it comes down to, isn't it? I've been disappointed so often." He sighed and looked quite thirty-five. "Still, she has personality. ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton
... suppose you're right," dubiously agreed Miss Fanny, whose ideal of management was to trust everything in the hands of a few girls whom she knew best and discourage any signs of individuality on the ...
— Monitress Merle • Angela Brazil
... arisen within that time, their theory falls to the ground. No species in that time, has passed into another. No species has been divided into two or more. No lower species has advanced into a higher. History gives no scrap of evidence in support of evolution. Even the horse, whose history has been dubiously traced for 3,000,000 years, has been a horse unchanged for the last 6,000 years. Even if the missing links in the development of the horse could be supplied, it would still be the same species all the while. But there are no transitional forms showing alleged changes in ...
— The Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved • William A. Williams
... make him so cantankerous?' reflected the nephew. 'I don't like the look of it at all.' And he dubiously scratched his nose. ...
— The Wrong Box • Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne
... interrupted the Squire dubiously; and he clapped his hand to the organ in question. "No, it ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various
... all right," he said, rather dubiously. "You really must not go over toward Don Carlos's. It's only a ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey
... the old lady dubiously, pulling up her sleeve, and examining her arm. "I don't see nothin'; but I expect I've had some injury to my inards. I feel as ef I'd had a shock somewhere. Do you think he'll fire again?" she asked, with a ...
— Frank's Campaign - or the Farm and the Camp • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... looks nor smell could one tell with certainty what one was eating. So, when the meat, smothered in thick brown gravy, was passed to the Sultan, his Highness, who, like all True Believers, abhors pork, regarded it dubiously. "Pig?" he demanded of the steward. "No, sare," ...
— Where the Strange Trails Go Down • E. Alexander Powell
... patch of woods, and then a field of winter grain, and came at last to another road. Before long he saw another farmhouse, and, as it was beginning to cloud over a little, he asked here for shelter as well as food. Seeing the farmer eying him dubiously, he added, "I'll be glad ...
— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair
... flung to the ground. Half a dozen attempts, quickly repeated, were scarcely better, the last one permitting him to remain on Barney's back nearly ten seconds, and culminating in a ludicrous fall over Barney's head. Sam withdrew from the ring, shaking his head dubiously and holding his side as if in pain. The other lads followed. Expert tumblers, they executed most amazing and side-splitting fails. Sam recovered and came back. Toward the last, all three made a combined attack on Barney, striving to ...
— Michael, Brother of Jerry • Jack London
... servant with me; the average British servant is worse than useless in a foreign country, and the dubiously-polyglot courier is a snare and a deception on campaign. I had my eye on Andreas for a couple of days, during which he was of immense service to me. He seemed to know and stand well with everyone in Belgrade; it was he, indeed, who presented me in the restaurant to ...
— The Idler, Volume III., Issue XIII., February 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly. Edited By Jerome K. Jerome & Robert Barr • Various
... plan," remarked Jack dubiously, for he did not fancy a half-hour's tramp across the fields and back again. Then, as he thought of something else, ...
— Lost on the Moon - or In Quest Of The Field of Diamonds • Roy Rockwood
... simple fracture, and the scalp wounds are slight. I suppose we could get along, if we can get hot water and the necessary appliances," he said dubiously, and then added, turning to the woman, "Dr. Morris is quite right, madame, in advising the hospital, and I assure you ...
— An American Suffragette • Isaac N. Stevens
... then, and lifts Itself astride a cross-road dubiously, And, from the fennel marge beyond it, ...
— The Complete Works • James Whitcomb Riley
... this time genuinely alarmed at the sudden unwonted effect on herself. "N-no," she replied dubiously, "I don't think I want to take any more, ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve
... her, but I've heard of her and seen her. Did she really give you three thousand? Did she really?" said Pyotr Ilyitch, eyeing him dubiously. ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... dubiously, "I have never considered my colleague in the capacity of a dear, but I have a very high opinion ...
— The Red Thumb Mark • R. Austin Freeman
... dubiously. "I don't know what to think of all this," she said. "It appears to me that it tends to break down the partition wall between us and those from whom we have received wrongs ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... reason to mourn," said the Shepherd grimly, "not for the Auld Laird's death only, but for their own lives as well. Aye, that's a subject for grief." He shook his head dubiously, and, seeming to feel it was an occasion for a moral lesson, he added, "'Mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the end of ...
— The Scotch Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... at our last meeting, my good nature caused me to send a cab for her. She wore the identical gray suit of years before and her face was still unlined and dubiously clean. ...
— Greener Than You Think • Ward Moore
... dubiously, "I must tell you in confidence that the feather King Helmas has is not yours, but was plucked from the wing ...
— Figures of Earth • James Branch Cabell
... that the living have rights, too," she began dubiously. "If they would let me alone I could be sorry in my own way, but I don't see why I have to make a parade of grief. It seems to—to cheapen one's feelings, ...
— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine
... She met a little dubiously the smile that would not stay quite extinguished on his good-looking, boyish face. Why shouldn't she go with him, since it was the American way for unchaperoned youth ...
— The Yukon Trail - A Tale of the North • William MacLeod Raine
... answer, while she was writing down with a pencil what Nora had said and making her repeat it for that purpose. When she had done she looked a little dubiously off towards the woods, while Nora was surprised ...
— Melbourne House, Volume 1 • Susan Warner
... "Well, mother," said Edith dubiously, "I suppose you know best, but it doesn't look very clear to me. There seems nothing definite or certain that we can ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... instinct the whole party looked dubiously at Hale. "Who's Hennicker?" he felt compelled ...
— Snow-Bound at Eagle's • Bret Harte
... conscious of a significant feminine pressure on his right arm. He was equal to the emergency. "I think not," he said dubiously, "unless your brother's hair is much darker than yours. Yes! now I look at you, yours is brown. He has a mole on his ...
— The Twins of Table Mountain and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... down and wiped the perspiration from his brow, then looked dubiously at the deeply anxious faces turned toward him. "Well," he said, "I'm going to tell you everything as far as I understand it. Now I want to see if you two can't listen calmly and quietly and not give way to useless feeling. There's much to be done, and you especially, Helen, must be in the right ...
— Taken Alive • E. P. Roe
... hardly believe my eyes or my ears, but managed to shout back, "Yes, yes, I'm an American. Are you?" I asked dubiously. ...
— In the Claws of the German Eagle • Albert Rhys Williams
... said Dick dubiously. Then, determined to know all—"No, I don't quite see," he said. "I don't know what ...
— Menhardoc • George Manville Fenn
... "Yes," said Patty, dubiously, "and Kenneth said he would call this evening, and Elise and Roger may come in. So, as it's Friday evening, I'll see them, of course; but after this I must study ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells
... had not some notions—" said Mrs. Powle dubiously. For between her husband and Mr. Carlisle she was very much held in on Eleanor's subject; both insisting that she should let her alone. It was difficult for Eleanor to be displeased with Mr. Carlisle in these times; his whole behaviour was so ...
— The Old Helmet, Volume II • Susan Warner
... all comforts now!" exclaimed an old Nomeite dubiously, "for we won't find any on shore; leastwise not unless it has improved more in the last ten months than I think it has. It was a tough place enough last summer, and that's no josh either!" looking around him at the ladies of the party and evidently wondering what they would think ...
— A Woman who went to Alaska • May Kellogg Sullivan
... Edward gazed around him dubiously. "We're going to have some rain, I think," he said; "and—and it's a new flag. It would be a pity to spoil it. P'raps I won't run ...
— The Golden Age • Kenneth Grahame
... without learning a few things characteristic of colonial life, including the handling of an ox team. He therefore volunteered to end the deadlock, and in sheer desperation the Padre's offer was, however dubiously, accepted. So off came his tunic; this small thing was straightened, that small thing cleared out of the way, then next he cleared his throat, and instead of hurling at those staggering oxen English oaths ...
— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry
... smiled dubiously, for he considered Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Morris to be dangerously alike as financiers. As for the youth addressed, he listened with his customary quiet attention to the conversation, though he little dreamed how great his own interest in Mr. Morris was to be in after ...
— Calvert of Strathore • Carter Goodloe
... assured, I shall not forget you." So saying, the Ticket walked hurriedly away, and Snipe stood with the note still in his hand, and looked dubiously at his companion. ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844 • Various
... the Dean of Pimlico, and the Rev. C. Honeyman, A.M." When the Dean of Pimlico has his illness, many people think Honeyman will have the Deanery; that he ought to have it, a hundred female voices vow and declare: though it is said that a right reverend head at headquarters shakes dubiously when his name is mentioned for preferment. His name is spread wide, and not only women but men come to hear him. Members of Parliament, even Cabinet Ministers, sit under him. Lord Dozeley of course is seen in a front pew: ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... island, besides those fifty sheep. Quite a risk for a man with so little as I've got. You don't know how pleased I am that you fellows are going to be on deck there this summer. You're a good, husky lot—at least most of ye." He scanned Percy a trifle dubiously. "You'll have a fine time the next three months, and you'll make some money. Wish I ...
— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman
... to break it to you," Bross faltered dubiously. "You better brace yourself to lean up ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... not," replied Jimmie, dubiously. He was on his guard against tricks. Suppose they were to enlist him as a worker, and then ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair
... echoed dubiously. And then, to hide a sense of bathos, "People have made it pay. Of course, they ...
— Not George Washington - An Autobiographical Novel • P. G. Wodehouse
... away panic-stricken from Sheldon's vicinity. The grinning house-boys shouted encouragement and explanation, and the stampede was checked, the new-caught head-hunters huddling closely together and staring dubiously at the fearful monster. ...
— Adventure • Jack London
... to have an Armada. Well, I don't know either," continued Warren dubiously. "If it should go to pieces like that one," nodding his head over to the scene, growing more vivid by the reflection of the red light in the west. "Doris, do you know what happened to ...
— A Little Girl in Old Boston • Amanda Millie Douglas
... No. 2 on the register! Report when ready!" The operator repeated the words confidentially to the distant battery, and even as he spoke the receiver answered "Ready!" "Fire!" I had my eyes glued to the house, yet nothing seemed to happen, and I rubbed my field-glasses dubiously with my pocket-handkerchief. Had they missed? Even as I speculated there was a puff of smoke and a spurt of flame in the roof of the house between the poplars. ...
— Leaves from a Field Note-Book • J. H. Morgan
... things like that than I do," agreed Dolly, dubiously. "But I know this much, anyhow. If I were a man, I'd certainly be in love with Miss Eleanor, if I ...
— A Campfire Girl's Happiness • Jane L. Stewart
... Eleanor looked at him dubiously: "No," she said; "it's something besides that. The family have probably filled your ears with silly gossip. Mr. Phipps was wild at one time—he told me all about it. But that's ancient history; you can take my word ...
— Quin • Alice Hegan Rice
... dubiously at his silent guest. Leaning again towards Miss Farrow he whispered: "I don't know what one does on such occasions, Blanche. Ought not we to have a ...
— From Out the Vasty Deep • Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
... rapture of youth. Frank and Priscilla, because their combined ages only amounted to thirty-two years, were more daring than Caesar. With a fine faith in the providence which feeds adventurers, they scorned the wisdom which looks dubiously at bread and honey. They did not ...
— Priscilla's Spies 1912 • George A. Birmingham
... on the Serjeant's countenance became more defined; he rocked his leg with increased violence, and, throwing himself back in his easy-chair, coughed dubiously. ...
— Bardell v. Pickwick • Percy Fitzgerald
... on both sides, and leave the rest to Providence 68. He would have felt sympathy with the two famous London physicians of our day, of whom it is told that they could not make up their minds on a case and reported dubiously. The head of the family insisted on a positive opinion. They answered that they were unable to give one, but he might easily ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
... reached his room and the Count entering also had closed the door, Carter threw off much of the assumed languor, and told the Counselor the whole of the tale. The Krovitzer shook his head dubiously. "Josef found you at quarter past three this morning—yet you say Josef was not one of the two men. Did you ...
— Trusia - A Princess of Krovitch • Davis Brinton
... price for the necklace. "For it is necessary I have that much, and not a penny less." And Jurgen shook his head dubiously, and vowed that ladies were unconscionable bargainers: but Jurgen agreed to what she asked, because the necklace was worth almost as much again. Then Jurgen suggested that the business could be most ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell
... rose from his seat when he had concluded the note, and looked dubiously at Parsons. 'May I ask,' he inquired, appealing to Watkins Tottle, 'whether our friend here is acquainted with ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... do for once," she said dubiously, and so she went on, making good shift, wiping the dishes carefully and placing them before her on the table. Then she laughed. "It was the same with Annie and me—we only had the one pan. Yours is much larger than ours was. I always ...
— The Sagebrusher - A Story of the West • Emerson Hough
... a bad way, and weather is making," said the skipper, fiddling his forefinger under his nose dubiously. ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day
... strongly, and within a month he pointed out the result to his employer. "Stand in the light here," said Mr. Scribner. "Well, yes," he concluded dubiously, "it's there—something at least. All right; I'll keep my part ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)
... get some other togs," said he, eyeing my attire dubiously. "If you come like that to church on Sunday, my governor would forget and want to baptise you. He was ...
— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke
... had nothing ready. "Well," he said, dubiously, "in such a very difficult matter it might be rash...." Then he thought of something to say, suddenly. "Well—yes! It certainly does occur to me that ... No—perhaps ...
— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan
... the place?" I inquired somewhat dubiously. The man in the blouse, who had performed the three functions of opening my compartment-door, carrying my bag to the gate, and relieving me of my ticket, achieved a ...
— The Firefly Of France • Marion Polk Angellotti
... "We might," said Una dubiously, "but you will have to walk across two fields, and the grass is long at this time of year. I don't mind getting wet, of ...
— The Northern Iron - 1907 • George A. Birmingham
... given her advantages which the most fortunate young ladies of that day might have envied. In short, Mrs. Felix turned out to be a very superior woman in all respects. She was proud as well as pretty, and managed to hold her own with the element which Grandsir Kendrick sometimes dubiously referred to as "the quality." The fact that Mrs. Felix's mother was a Barksdale probably had something to do with her energy and tact; but whatever the cause of her popularity may have been, Grandsir Kendrick was ...
— Mingo - And Other Sketches in Black and White • Joel Chandler Harris
... face downward on the floor, and upon the sharp point of the scissors she had been using, which had entered her body in close proximity to her heart. The wound was certainly a dangerous one. The surgeon, who was quickly summoned, shook his head dubiously. ...
— Daisy Brooks - A Perilous Love • Laura Jean Libbey
... received a polite invitation by letter from Mr. Buxton to take breakfast with him. Presenting myself at the appointed time, when my name was announced, instead of coming forward promptly to take me by the hand, he scrutinized me from head to foot, and then inquired, somewhat dubiously, 'Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Garrison, of Boston, in the United States?' 'Yes, sir,' I replied, 'I am he; and I am here in accordance with your invitation.' Lifting up his hands he exclaimed, 'Why, my dear sir, ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various
... dubiously. "If only I'd all that!" be sighed, recalling all at once the village, his poor little bit of land, his poverty, his mother, and all that was so far away and so near his heart; for the sake of which he bad gone to seek work, for the sake of which he had suffered such agonies that night. ...
— Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim Gorky
... you could ride," remarked the subaltern dubiously, fancying that Bela Moshi in his desire to accompany him was inventing a fairy tale ...
— Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force • Percy F. Westerman
... the shadow into the moonlight, and it became evident that Sigurd was shaking his head dubiously. ...
— The Thrall of Leif the Lucky • Ottilie A. Liljencrantz
... my surprise in a small chamber, or rather passage, curtained at both ends, and occupied by a couple of guardsmen—members, doubtless, of the Band of the Forty-Five who rose at my entrance and looked at me dubiously. Their guard-room, dimly illumined by a lamp of red glass, seemed to me, in spite of its curtains and velvet bench, and the thick tapestry which kept out every breath of wholesome air, the most sombre I could imagine. And the most ...
— A Gentleman of France • Stanley Weyman
... him, and in a low whisper Carnes reported his discovery. The doctor went back with him and together they renewed the search. The slope of the hill was almost sheer and Carnes looked dubiously ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various |
