"Skeptically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... short, his eyes burning. He began to talk, suddenly groping for words while he waved the high-powered small battery in his hand. The helicopter man listened, at first skeptically and then with an ...
— Morale - A Story of the War of 1941-43 • Murray Leinster
... continue to operate and are supported with private-security militias. Somalia's arrears to the IMF continued to grow in 2006-07. Statistics on Somalia's GDP, growth, per capita income, and inflation should be viewed skeptically. In late December 2004, a major tsunami caused an estimated 150 deaths and resulted in destruction of property in ...
— The 2008 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... first you are too bewildered to do this. You are in a new world, and you find yourself surrounded by spirits, telling you that you're dead. The spiritualists say that many new arrivals refuse to believe they are dead, and look around skeptically at heaven, and think they are dreaming. It often takes a long time to convince them. This must be rather awkward. It's as though no one who arrived in Chicago would believe he was there, but went stumbling around, treating citizens as though they weren't real, and saying that he doubted whether ...
— The Crow's Nest • Clarence Day, Jr.
... too," laughed Charley, adding skeptically, "but you'll have to show me, and I'll have to see them before I'll believe we can get ...
— Left on the Labrador - A Tale of Adventure Down North • Dillon Wallace |
