"Dubiously" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had been completed did he appear to notice Orme. But now he turned, widening his face into a smile and extending his hand, which Orme took rather dubiously—it was supple and moist. ...
— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin
... Connie, dubiously. "Waseche and I have killed several bears, and there was a time or two when a couple of good thirty-forty's came near not ...
— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx
... to break it to you," Bross faltered dubiously. "You better brace yourself to lean up against the biggest ...
— The Day of Days - An Extravaganza • Louis Joseph Vance
... outbreak, and he returned instantly, wagging his tail, and looking up dubiously in his master's face; uncertain whether he would ...
— Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey • Washington Irving
... The men halted, stared dubiously, and finally, seeing that the quarrel was over, they went back whence they had come. "Let's step over here," Saunders proposed; and he led the way to the railway blacksmith's shop, now closed and unlighted. In the shadow ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... shook his head dubiously. Too brazen, that landing. It was almost in the insect city. Of course, the ship was large and heavily armed with ray-guns which poked out their sharp snouts here and there about the hull. None the less, an experienced explorer of Titan would never have flung such ...
— Loot of the Void • Edwin K. Sloat
... They went up for another hour, and then came out upon the expected strip of plateau in the midst of which the gully died out. The plateau, however, lay on the northern side of a great peak, and was covered with slushy snow. Kinnaird looked somewhat dubiously at the latter, which ...
— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss
... the olives?" he asked, putting some of the shining black fruit into their hands. Eda bit one dubiously with her long, ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... we're doin' right, Phoebe," she said, shaking her head dubiously. "When we get back to 1892 we'd ought to find some money in the bank already. Ef we hev this with us, too, seems to me we'll hev more'n we're entitled to. Ain't it a good ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye
... shook his head dubiously as though entirely unable to comprehend why Tarzan should differ so from him but at last, apparently giving the problem up with a shrug, he laid aside his own harness, skin, and weapons and ...
— Tarzan the Terrible • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... maid," she answered dubiously, shaking her head, "I don't know. I expect my old black woman that I brought with me from Jamaica would ill-treat her—perhaps murder her. But the master can be managed and the novel. Will none of you laugh at me if you see me trailing a ...
— Miss Bretherton • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... 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 hour at all. Suppose he and Carl had made a mistake. If they had, ...
— The Plastic Age • Percy Marks
... know that it does," said he, dubiously. It seemed, however, to be her whim to talk literature, and he went on: "I've hardly read Meredith at all. I once borrowed his 'Lucile,' but somehow I never got interested in it. I heard a recitation of his once, though—a piece about a dead wife, and the husband and another man ...
— The Damnation of Theron Ware • Harold Frederic
... dubiously. "I'm not the big boss, but I can tell you right now that, if you could have shown me what I was fully expecting to see, the wires between here and wherever Mr. McVickar's private car happens to be would ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
... the table, and carefully tucking up her skirts, Lucy sat down upon the wooden chair and looked dubiously on while Anna made the sick woman more tidy in appearance, and then fed her from the basket of provisions ...
— The Rector of St. Mark's • Mary J. Holmes
... the Wynstay Arms through streets crowded with market people. On arriving at the inn I entered the grand room and ordered dinner. The waiters, observing me splashed with mud from head to foot, looked at me dubiously; seeing, however, the respectable-looking volume which I bore in my hand—none of your railroad stuff—they became more assured, and I presently heard one say to the other, "It's all right—that's Mr So-and-So, the ...
— Wild Wales - Its People, Language and Scenery • George Borrow
... He shook his head dubiously. "Well, even suppose it would, I still don't like it. You don't make friends simply to use 'em for ...
— Rope • Holworthy Hall
... he said to Mrs. Vansittart, "to drive back to the junction of the two roads and wait there under the trees?" He paused, looking dubiously from one to the other. "And you and Miss Roden had better go back with him ...
— Roden's Corner • Henry Seton Merriman
... good," the elder Cowperwood said, dubiously, when shown the package of securities. "At any other time they would be. But money is so tight. We find it awfully hard these days to meet our own obligations. I'll talk to Mr. Kugel." ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... 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
... know about that," said Skinner, rather dubiously. "Anyhow, what he's got are live ones." Then, after a pause, "Look here, Honey, we don't need to worry. We've already invested so much. It's going to continue to bring us in good things—and it is n't going to cost ...
— Skinner's Dress Suit • Henry Irving Dodge
... then, shaking his head dubiously. He was not going to spend Christmas with Edward and Geraldine, and perhaps the prospect of having to cook and eat his Christmas dinner all alone made ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... at Willock somewhat dubiously. "He's very much altered, then, since I met him last. I'm afraid he has a gun hidden up there among ...
— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis
... the scraps over, regarding them dubiously. "These aren't much to recognize, anyhow. I don't know the writing. Where ...
— Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison
... all right," he said, rather dubiously. "You really must not go over toward Don Carlos's. It's only ...
— The Light of Western Stars • Zane Grey
... bed-ridden man turned his eyes towards it; eagerly, too, the doctor's gaze went that way, but the two women, glancing sidewise, sniffed dubiously and stiffened a little. To them the anxiously awaited daughter was an unsexed creature whom they could neither understand nor approve. They had lived hard and intolerent lives, accepting drudgery and perennial ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... him in the effort to shape the traditional (and perhaps still necessary) apparatus of myth to an instrument of his attitude. The meaning of the Induction is not difficult to discover; but current criticism has the habit of regarding it dubiously. Therefore we may be forgiven for attempting, with the brevity imposed upon us, to make its elements clear. The first eighteen lines, which Sir Sidney Colvin on objective grounds regrets ...
— Aspects of Literature • J. Middleton Murry
... is your country!" said Mrs. Wade eying her surroundings rather dubiously. In her heart she was appalled at the prospect of passing several ...
— Desert Conquest - or, Precious Waters • A. M. Chisholm
... dubiously. Somehow that part of the business did not quite please her. She had been glad that the stock took so long to accumulate, and that the business of selling did not ...
— Chatterbox, 1906 • Various
... new way to travel with horses," said Alfred, looking dubiously at the swift river. "Will there be any way to get news from Fort ...
— Betty Zane • Zane Grey
... dubiously. "You forget the cruiser. She has eyes aboard, and may chance to set them on that same red, in which case it's likely she would ...
— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader • R.M. Ballantyne
... sharply and somewhat dubiously. He was certainly very ragged and unkempt. But Miss Octavia saw what she had never noticed before—that Tommy's eyes were bright and frank, that Tommy's chin was a good chin, and that Tommy's smile had something very pleasant ...
— Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... crossing, but it had long since been destroyed, and now only presented the sight, so common in Cuba, of charred ruins devoid of human presence. There was neither bridge nor boat, but Lieutenant Navarro declared the river fordable at this point. Ridge regarded dubiously the chocolate-colored flood already swollen by the first of the summer rains, and wished that they had at least two horses with which to cross it. As they had not, and as nothing was to be gained by delay, he took his companion up behind him, and Senorita, thus doubly burdened, plunged ...
— "Forward, March" - A Tale of the Spanish-American War • Kirk Munroe
... down close beside him and held the drill steady while the old man prepared to hit. She glanced up at him, dubiously. The ...
— The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure • Lizette M. Edholm
... always be flighty." No further observations occurring to me, I took up my necklace and bracelets from the seat and put them in my pocket. "Will you permit a meddlesome old woman to inquire what made you buy those cat's-eyes?" said Mrs. Brewton. "Why—" I dubiously began. "Never mind," she cried, archly. "If you were thinking of some one in your Northern home, they will be prized because the thought, at any rate, was beautiful and genuine. 'Where'er I roam, whatever realms ...
— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister
... dubiously. "And it will be rather hard to find out that, I fear. You see, naturally a decent man wouldn't spread the fact abroad; and we can hardly ...
— Afterwards • Kathlyn Rhodes
... occasion and necessity for my trip, but he shook his head dubiously, his long face so exceedingly mournful that I could ...
— When Wilderness Was King - A Tale of the Illinois Country • Randall Parrish
... walk," she said dubiously. "I haf to take a whole lot of exercise, and I ought to walk and walk and walk. I guess I ought ...
— Gentle Julia • Booth Tarkington
... 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: where was a public meeting ...
— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray
... a trifle large, maybe," said Elnora dubiously, and Wesley knelt to feel. He and Margaret thought them a fit, and then Elnora appealed to her mother. Mrs. Comstock appeared wiping her hands on her apron. She ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter
... Thomas smiled dubiously. "You're a long way from all right, and there's no place to 'blow' to. The last boat sailed ...
— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach
... head dubiously. "I do not like it—and yet I suppose it must do, if nothing better can be found. Of course if we carry her off bodily, against her will, it would neither be a breaking of her pledge nor expose Keeper Arnold to any danger of after punishment, ...
— Dulcibel - A Tale of Old Salem • Henry Peterson
... Frau Heimert played a leading role in the little world of the barracks. The wives of the non-commissioned officers listened more or less dubiously to the romantic tale of her origin, and envied her the all-powerful money at her disposal. For not only did she give one pure coffee from the bean,—no chicory mixture,—but she was also extremely fashionable in her attire, rustling about in silk-lined skirts, so that folk turned to ...
— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein
... a glance into the office, and answered dubiously, "Yes." He was not at all clear about the nature of the employment likely to ...
— The Young Outlaw - or, Adrift in the Streets • Horatio Alger
... Daniel rather dubiously admitted that he guessed 'twas first rate, far's he could make it out. His wife was enthusiastic; she affirmed ...
— Cap'n Dan's Daughter • Joseph C. Lincoln
... Barclay, dubiously. And then they looked at each other with mad eyes. What a relief it would have been if they could ...
— Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 • Various
... rose with a dazed look, which always indicates in such men the fact that they regard philosophy as a familiar thing, but practical life as a weird and unnerving vision, and walked dubiously out of ...
— The Club of Queer Trades • G. K. Chesterton
... his say, and now but awaits your final answer to take fair leave of you, the Manitou paused. Jervis Whitney did the like, remaining silent for many moments, half in doubt, half in debate, his eyes bent fixedly the while upon his companion. At length, very dubiously, indeed, he answered: ...
— The Red Moccasins - A Story • Morrison Heady
... sister really expect me?" asked Malcolm dubiously. "My dear boy," as Cedric grew rather red and pulled his budding moustache in an affronted manner, "I know you were good enough to invite me, but I understood from you that your sisters were the owners of the Wood House, and as I have not ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... I shook my head dubiously, he hurried on to clinch his point. "Colleges have gone a long way from the old ideal of pure culture. They have got down to solving the hard facts of life—pretty nearly all, except one. They still treat crime in the old way, study its statistics and pore over ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... Wentworth, hesitatingly. "She is not likely to be anxious, is she?" he said dubiously. "I mean, at your being away so long. She won't ...
— The Arbiter - A Novel • Lady F. E. E. Bell
... know," said Mr. O'Connor dubiously, as he took out cigarette-papers and tobacco. "I think Joe Hynes is a straight man. He's a clever chap, too, with the pen. Do you ...
— Dubliners • James Joyce
... 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
... being upset in the big waves from steamboats," remarked Nick, shaking his head dubiously at several recollections that did not seem to give him much happiness. "My! you don't know just how we wallow, and nearly flop over on our beam ends at such times. I think I lose six ounces of flesh every narrow escape we have from swamping; and I ...
— Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise - or, The Dash for Dixie • Louis Arundel
... 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
... Welsh shook his head dubiously. "Not that I care a rap," he declared. "And if you are, just gimme a couple of lines of notice, the right kind, good ad, you know. And if yer not, why yer all right anyway. Yer not ...
— Moon-Face and Other Stories • Jack London
... room was wainscoted in white, and the panel-work around the great chimney was beautiful. A Franklin stove with a pattern of grape-vines was built into the chimney under the high mantel. Sylvia regarded this dubiously. ...
— The Shoulders of Atlas - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... nevertheless, Sir John shook his head dubiously. He preferred to believe in a supernatural occurrence; it gave ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere
... dubiously round, but finding himself in a minority, assumed a compassionate air, and ...
— A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land • William R. Hughes
... the idea of going down in there," said Archie, looking dubiously at the dark, muddy water; "there may be snakes in it, or it may be full of logs, or the bottom may be covered with weeds that will catch hold of a fellow's ...
— Frank, the Young Naturalist • Harry Castlemon
... drawled 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 ...
— Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim Gorky
... black-lettered door, she walked into the anteroom, and apparently her entrance sent a communication to the inner office; for while she stood for a moment looking dubiously at the uninviting chairs, a tall young man entered the room. Miss Lacey viewed ...
— The Opened Shutters • Clara Louise Burnham
... of ours is a mighty muddle sometimes.' And here he gave an impatient sigh. 'It is a relief to human nature to vent one's spleen on the first handy person that crosses one's path, and, pardon me for saying so, you were just a little aggressive yourself,' looking at me rather dubiously, as though he were not quite sure how I should take this hit. My conscience told me that I had been far from peaceable; on the contrary, I had been decidedly cross; not that I would confess that this was the case, so I only returned mildly ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... dubiously. "I—that is, I never was much on poetry, you understand. It wasn't exactly in my line. But never mind. How did it go? I'd like ...
— Darkness and Dawn • George Allan England
... eyes dubiously upon his sleeve; yet the little maid seemed positive. Perhaps, after all, ...
— Master Skylark • John Bennett
... knew what an ordeal the woman he loved was passing through in this simple 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)
... the appearance of the sixth cargo was so remarkable when brought out into the sunlight that it invited closer inspection. Though his knowledge of geology was slight—the half-forgotten gleanings of a brief course at Eton—he was forced to believe that the specimens he handled so dubiously contained neither copper nor iron pyrites but glittering yellow gold. Their weight, the distribution of the metal through quartz in a transition state between an oxide and a ...
— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy
... a beardless boy, Gen. Marmaduke looked me over rather dubiously, as I thought, but finally told me what he wanted—to find out whether or not it was true that Gen. Steele, at Little Rock, was preparing to move against Price at Camden, and to make the grand round of the picket posts from Warren to the Mississippi river, up the Arkansas to Pine Bluff and Little ...
— The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself • Cole Younger
... 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
... room, directly over the basement kitchen, jutted in an ell off the rear of the house so that from the back parlor it was not difficult to precede the immediate overhead response to that bell. A black-faced genii of the bowl and weal, in a very dubiously white-duck coat thrust on hurriedly over clothing reminiscent of the day's window washing and furnace cinders, held attitude in among the small tables that littered the room. There were four. A long table seating ten and punctuated by two sets of cruets, two plates of ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst
... the letter kept up her courage, and she descended dubiously from her pony's back, and followed the Indian to the door of the shanty. The vine growing luxuriantly over window and casement and door frame reassured her somewhat, she could not tell just why. Perhaps somebody with ...
— The Man of the Desert • Grace Livingston Hill
... Mr. Ellis ventured to suggest in answer to an appealing glance from Mr. Hamilton-Wells, and looking dubiously at the cane—"I think, since Diavolo doesn't care a rap about being flogged, I had better devise a form of punishment for which he ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand
... 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
... timidly agreed to the proposition. How could she ask him to ride with her after what had passed between them? He would think her unwomanly and, strangely enough, with that thought she began to feel that she must have his good opinion. Yet she went, half dubiously, into the plot to prove a coward of the man she ...
— Her Weight in Gold • George Barr McCutcheon
... poor Louis! Thy fault is properly even this, that thou didst nothing. What could poor Louis do? Abdicate, and wash his hands of it,—in favour of the first that would accept! Other clear wisdom there was none for him. As it was, he stood gazing dubiously, the absurdest mortal extant (a very Solecism Incarnate), into the absurdest confused world;—wherein at lost nothing seemed so certain as that he, the incarnate Solecism, had five senses; that were Flying Tables (Tables Volantes, ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... to tell you something," the Sheriff began dubiously. "These two are real thugs. They ain't going ...
— The Black Box • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... sure that—You will be careful not to drop him? He is tremendously strong, and he squirms," dubiously assented the fond mother. "Come, Tom. We must not keep Miss ...
— Out of the Depths - A Romance of Reclamation • Robert Ames Bennet
... Paulita smiled dubiously and shook her head. "Dreams, dreams!" she sighed. "I've heard it said that you have many enemies. Aunt says that this ...
— The Reign of Greed - Complete English Version of 'El Filibusterismo' • Jose Rizal
... important to understand the marked national differences in the reaction to these slightly or dubiously anti-social acts, for such differences rest on ancient tradition, and are to some extent the expression of the genius of a people, though they are not the absolutely immutable product of racial constitution, and, within limits, they undergo transformation. ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis
... took care of the dogs, and was a sort of godfather to them all, shook his head dubiously over Baldy. "He don't seem to belong here, someway," had been his mild criticism; while the Woman complained to "Scotty" that he was one of the most unresponsive dogs she had ...
— Baldy of Nome • Esther Birdsall Darling
... 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 conveniently concluded ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell
... "No," said Mulrady, dubiously. After a pause he began more vivaciously, and as if to shake off some disagreeable thought that was impressing him, "But I mustn't forget to give you YOUR Christmas, old man, and I've got it right here with me." He took the folded envelope from his pocket, and, holding it in his hand with his elbow ...
— A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready • Bret Harte
... it was generally called—before eleven. Great was the surprise and consternation excited by so unexpected an arrival. The house was in the charge of a widow whose husband had been the late, lord's steward. She looked somewhat dubiously at Lord Arleigh and then at his companion, when they had entered. Madaline never opened her lips. Lord Arleigh was strangely pale ...
— Wife in Name Only • Charlotte M. Braeme (Bertha M. Clay)
... Locke shook his head dubiously. "I give it up," he replied. "It's too deep for me. But whoever it is, he won't trouble us long, I'll wager. I've been perfecting a special gun and an explosive-gas bullet. No one can shoot the monster. Nothing seems to stop it. But this weapon, I ...
— The Master Mystery • Arthur B. Reeve and John W. Grey
... think they will, though?' asked Jacker McKnight dubiously. He had found his parents very unromantic people, who took a severely commonplace view of things, and retained unquestioning faith in the strap as a means of ...
— The Gold-Stealers - A Story of Waddy • Edward Dyson
... Lord John Russell from office, in 1852, the Earl of Derby, formerly Lord Stanley, succeeded him as Prime Minister. Mr. Gladstone was invited to become a member of the new Tory Cabinet, but declined, whereupon Lord Malmesbury dubiously remarked, November 28th: "I cannot make out Gladstone, who seems to me a dark horse." Mr. Disraeli was chosen Chancellor of the Exchequer, and became Leader in the House of Commons, entering the Cabinet for the first time. "There ...
— The Grand Old Man • Richard B. Cook
... might. "I only know mother's very cross," he reiterated dubiously, as if not quite knowing what to say; "and I don't think you ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... Kit," he went on dubiously, "you would have to know her. She won't stand for divorce. She thinks ...
— When a Man Marries • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... 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
... But Mr Wainman had not become an old colonist 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 or Kaffir curses, spoke to them in tones soothing and familiar as their own mother tongue. ...
— With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back • Edward P. Lowry
... and the smooth bands gave her the simplicity and severity of a saint in some old picture. She pinned up her gown until it did not show below the long black coat, and folded a white linen handkerchief about her throat over the delicate lace and garniture of the modish waist. Then she looked dubiously at the hat. ...
— The Mystery of Mary • Grace Livingston Hill
... she said, resolutely, "for playing a silly trick like——" But she observed his advance very dubiously, straightening up to her full slender height to confront him, but not rising to her feet. Her ...
— The Gay Rebellion • Robert W. Chambers
... up slowly, and fastened boots and leggings. "I suppose we ought to put on revolvers," he went on dubiously, and then added with sudden warmth, "I hope he gets ...
— Pushed and the Return Push • George Herbert Fosdike Nichols, (AKA Quex)
... oars when requested to do so. Webb and Leonard took 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 were soon skirting an island from which ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe
... blotches on its forehead and trunk, which allowed him to touch it and, after due consideration, accepted the gift of a peeled banana. Its mother stood by during the proceeding and regarded the fraternising with her calf dubiously. ...
— The Elephant God • Gordon Casserly
... history in brief, and finishing with eight lines of original verse composed by his widow. I do not think that poetry was Great-grandmother King's strong point. When Felix read it, on our first Sunday in Carlisle, he remarked dubiously that it LOOKED like poetry but ...
— The Story Girl • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... friends, the prince embarked in Walsh's vessel, the Doutelle, at St. Nazaire, on the Loire, and on the 19th of July, landed on the northern coast of Scotland, near Moidart. The Scottish chiefs, little consulted or considered beforehand, came slowly and dubiously to the landing-place. Under their patriarchal control there were still in the kingdom about a hundred thousand men, and about one-twelfth of the Scottish population. Clanronald, Cameron of Lochiel, the Laird of McLeod, and a few others, having arrived, the royal standard was unfurled on ...
— A Popular History of Ireland - From the earliest period to the emancipation of the Catholics • Thomas D'Arcy McGee
... you mean, the general?" said Lebedeff, dubiously, as though he had not taken in the drift of the ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... fellows," demurred Andy dubiously, "I haven't much heart for frolic. I'm expelled, you know, and there's ...
— Andy the Acrobat • Peter T. Harkness
... She dubiously shook her head. 'I appreciate your motives, Mr. Millborne; but you must consider my position; and you will see that, short of the personal wish to marry, which I don't feel, there is no reason why I should change my state, even though by so doing I should ease your ...
— Life's Little Ironies - A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters • Thomas Hardy
... plain and surveyed the locality with a profound air and in silence, nodded with approval or shook his head dubiously, and without communicating to the generals around him the profound course of ideas which guided his decisions merely gave them his final conclusions in the form of commands. Having listened to a suggestion from Davout, who was now called Prince d'Eckmuhl, to turn the Russian left wing, ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... sands, or in the populous moral Desert of selfishness and baseness,—to such Temptation are we all called. Unhappy if we are not! Unhappy if we are but Half-men, in whom that divine handwriting has never blazed forth, all-subduing, in true sun-splendor; but quivers dubiously amid meaner lights: or smoulders, in dull pain, in darkness, under earthly vapors!—Our Wilderness is the wide World in an Atheistic Century; our Forty Days are long years of suffering and fasting: nevertheless, to these also comes an end. Yes, to me also was given, if not Victory, ...
— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle
... not," Mrs. Clark assented, somewhat dubiously. The "good woman" had heard of this bonanza to come from Clark's Field when the title was made right for so many years that she was humanly anxious to touch a tangible profit at once. But she knew only too well that her husband was ...
— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick
... 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
... a heap of nursing," the doctor answered, rubbing his unshaven chin dubiously with the palm of his hand. "See how the fever's climbed up even in the last half hour. That boy's going to ...
— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine
... to the broken-legged one, who found herself quite unable to sleep under such circumstances. Her mind did not exactly race about among the startling developments of the past few hours, but it did dwell dubiously upon the more unfortunate phases of past, present, ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop • Anne Warner
... believe we ought to drink that water," I heard Ida Mary tell Ma Wagor, as she stood, dipper in hand, looking dubiously ...
— Land of the Burnt Thigh • Edith Eudora Kohl
... head dubiously, but Solange had raised her eyes and as long as he could see them he felt unable to question ...
— Louisiana Lou • William West Winter
... the whale tooth faded out of the Buli's eyes, and he glanced about him dubiously. Yet had he already accepted ...
— South Sea Tales • Jack London
... The idea of herself separated from her husband, gave Deronda a changed, perturbing, painful place in her consciousness: instinctively she felt that the separation would be from him too, and in the prospective vision of herself as a solitary, dubiously-regarded woman, she felt some tingling bashfulness at the remembrance of her behavior towards him. The association of Deronda with a dubious position for herself was intolerable. And what would he ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... twinkled. "Well, it's original, anyway," he said with a chuckle. "And Charlie must have some milk, I suppose. I say, he's a bit thin, isn't he?" he asked dubiously. ...
— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres
... it," he told himself rather dubiously. "I can't get the teeth down anyway. Too bad! I thought I was alone!" And then he hurried off to bed in anything but a comfortable frame ...
— The Mystery at Putnam Hall - The School Chums' Strange Discovery • Arthur M. Winfield
... be," said the other dubiously; "but it is hard for us to understand, you know. Now, they live in a little old house, which they have fixed up with flowers and one thing and another till it is very attractive—on the outside, at least. I know nothing about the ...
— Bricks Without Straw • Albion W. Tourgee
... or their families troubled. But as to fighting for the property of this railroad company and then taking chances with the Gideonites afterward—well, I don't know about that! It's too near home!" Again the foreman shook his head dubiously. "As long as you can reckon safely that the old one is goin' to do something, the boys thought perhaps you'd ...
— The Rainy Day Railroad War • Holman Day
... 'his expression certainly were that he was in wants of a sitiwation, and that he considered something might be done for him about the Docks, being used to fishing with a rod and line: but—' Mr Perch shook his head very dubiously indeed. ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens
... rest haven't started, 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 ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... need furniture for the bedrooms," he returned, rather dubiously; "but I wanted to sell the rest of the things that were not absolutely needed, and invest ...
— Esther - A Book for Girls • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... of comparatively easy progress, the shafts of twilight from the loopholes ceased to permeate the murky darkness in which she walked, and she was obliged to go more slowly, and to feel her way dubiously by the touch ...
— The Ashiel mystery - A Detective Story • Mrs. Charles Bryce
... the ship would but remain afloat until the weather moderated, something might possibly be done with them, but not until then. So they could only crouch there on the wet exposed poop, with the sea washing continuously over them, and the raw wind penetrating their saturated clothing, and hope dubiously that some ship might heave in sight in time to save them. And thus they remained ...
— The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" • Harry Collingwood
... said dubiously, "and I ain't learned to back her only enough to turn 'round; and it's too narrow. But I used to drive pretty good seven or eight years ago; and I've been managing a dog team off and on ever since. Let me climb up there ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... somewhat dubiously," Grundtvig said later, "and admitted that that was indeed a great contrast, but—" The difference between the two men no doubt lay in the fact that Prof. Marheincke, the speculative theologian, was principally interested in the first part of the assumed contrast—thinking, whereas ...
— Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark • Jens Christian Aaberg
... 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 ...
— Wee Wifie • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... the only thing to be done was to wait and see the result. 'I will come to-morrow,' said Catherine briefly; 'for the day certainly, longer if necessary.' She had long ago established her claim to be treated seriously as a nurse, and Dr. Baker made no objection. 'If she lives so long,' he said dubiously. 'The Backhouses and Mrs. Irwin [the neighbour] shall be close at hand. I will come in the afternoon and try to get her to take an opiate; but I can't give it her by force, and there is not the smallest chance of her consenting ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... not all that could be desired, for she shook her head dubiously, and seemed more ...
— A Lover in Homespun - And Other Stories • F. Clifford Smith
... Walker replied, bringing his jaw down like a rat- trap, and gazing across at him, dubiously. "I don't deal ...
— Michael's Crag • Grant Allen
... tip of the reef they discovered a possible opening. Shann eyed the narrow space between two fanglike rocks dubiously. To him that width of water lane seemed dangerously limited, the sudden slam of a wave could dash them against either of those pillars, with disastrous results, before they could move to save themselves. But Thorvald pointed their ...
— Storm Over Warlock • Andre Norton
... hands and remarkable steady eyes. He had punched cows over those ranges for ten years, and his experience had made him a wildcat in a fight. Oscar Larsen was a huge Swede, with a perpetual and foolish grin. Sour Creek had laughed at Oscar for five years, considered him dubiously for five years more, and then suddenly admitted him as a man among men. He was stronger than Buck Mason, quicker than Denver Jim, and shrewder than the judge. Last of all came Montana. He had a long, sad face, prodigious ability to stow away redeye, and a nature as simple and kind ...
— The Rangeland Avenger • Max Brand
... these two worthy wights speak very dubiously of the eloquent dame who shows the Shakespeare house. John Ange shook his head when I mentioned her valuable and inexhaustible collection of relics, particularly her remains of the mulberry tree; and the old sexton even expressed a doubt as to Shakespeare having ...
— The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. • Washington Irving
... said Grace dubiously. "I saw him with Eleanor in the run-about the other day. He was at the wheel, and they seemed to be having a very interesting ...
— Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School - or The Parting of the Ways • Jessie Graham Flower
... Andy assented somewhat dubiously; it had never just struck him that way; he thought fleetingly that perhaps it was because he had never come across any rare, old wine. He ventured another glance. She was not young, and she wore glasses, behind which twinkled very bright eyes of a shade of brown. She had unpleasantly regular ...
— The Happy Family • Bertha Muzzy Bower
... his lunch, such as it was and what there was of it, and I relieved him of the tray and set it on the floor beyond his chair. I found an ashtray and lit a cigarette for him and one for myself, using the big lighter. Tom looked at it dubiously, predicting that sometime I'd push the wrong thing and send myself bye-byes for a couple of hours. I told him ...
— Four-Day Planet • Henry Beam Piper
... Aldous resumed his loud whistling as he tightened up the saddle-girths, and killed time in half a dozen other ways. A quarter of an hour passed. Still Joanne did not appear. Aldous scratched his head dubiously, and looked at ...
— The Hunted Woman • James Oliver Curwood
... sympathetic joy, but I grieve to say that I was taking care all the 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 down under ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley
... orders not to molest or annoy the inhabitants; as it was, they regarded us very dubiously, though we were supposed to ...
— Dream Tales and Prose Poems • Ivan Turgenev
... to the captain's dinner, the last before reaching port. The sunshine had been brilliant all the day, yet there came a chilly, shivering air toward two o'clock, and the first officer shrugged his shoulders and looked dubiously ahead, but gave no other sign. Gaily they drank the skipper's health and pledged the Idaho in her best champagne. Long they lingered over the table and laughter, jest and song and story enlivened the hours that came to an end at last, and Pancha stole her little hand within Loring's arm for the ...
— A Wounded Name • Charles King
... despair. "That seems to prove it was she," he said dubiously, "but I can't explain your father's conduct in receiving her in so secretive a way. The ...
— The Silent House • Fergus Hume
... 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
... Curtis very dubiously and it is more than likely would have refused to serve him had he been alone. But her expression changed on looking at Kelson. Kelson was one of those individuals who seldom fail to meet with the approval of women—there was a something in him they liked. Probably neither he nor they could ...
— The Sorcery Club • Elliott O'Donnell
... b'low. Mebbyso Sing flighten 'em. Shoot cannon. Bling help. Maxon come klick. Bling men. Chase'm 'way," explained the Chinaman. "But plilates see 'em pletty white girl," he shrugged his shoulders and shook his head dubiously, "then old Sing no can flighten ...
— The Monster Men • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... cracked again and the bandit's wide-brimmed hat rose from his head and sailed away into the sage. He looked back at it a trifle dubiously, but he knew better than to stop to recover that hat, in the face of such close snap-shooting. That express messenger was too deadly—and too game; so the bandit merely spurred his horse, lay low on his neck and swept ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne
... Ottawa village, which was located near the river bank some two miles above the fort. Here the arrival of the prisoner, and the announcement of the sentence passed upon him, was received with yells of approval and every manifestation of savage joy. But there were some who shook their heads dubiously. They were of the war-party recently returned from Presque Isle; and, recalling the marvellous things done by this white medicine man, they were still fearful of his power. The majority, however, paid slight attention to these croakers, and the work ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... framed?" The duchess glanced at what the duke was so tenderly caressing, almost, as it seemed, a little dubiously. "Whatever ...
— The Lock And Key Library - Classic Mystery And Detective Stories, Modern English • Various
... raise the money by that time," replied the poor fellow dubiously. "Anyway, I give you my solemn promise. But, I say," he continued, with seeming irrelevance—"when ...
— Such is Life • Joseph Furphy
... ensued. The unfortunate visitor plainly perceived an evident abatement of interest in himself, yet he still struggled politely to say something. "Then I reckon you know what kept Hale away?" he said dubiously. ...
— Snow-Bound at Eagle's • Bret Harte
... 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 ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844 • Various
... will do for models in this remote place," said Himself, putting his hands in his pockets and gazing dubiously at the abandoned farm-houses on the hillsides; the still green dooryards on the village street where no children were playing, and the quiet little brick school-house at the turn of the road, from which a dozen half-grown boys and girls issued ...
— Penelope's Postscripts • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... him dubiously, but pursued with ardour: "Why, just getting back to Florence, after not having been here for so long—I should think it would be so romantic. Oh dear! I wish I were ...
— Indian Summer • William D. Howells
... as he watched the other's retreating figure and dubiously smelt the cigar; "I s'pose it's all right; but he's a larky sort, and I 'ave heard of 'em exploding. I'll give it to ...
— At Sunwich Port, Complete • W.W. Jacobs
... dubiously, "but I don't see it,—not a sign of it,—no indeed, not one! It gets worse and worse all the time, and it takes a deal of faith to hold on; but the good Lord knows best, and it'll be right after a while, anyhow! And now that's ...
— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson
... and opened the door. Miss Elizabeth stood there, red- faced and flustered, and behind her stood Mr. Cresson Ingle, who looked dubiously amused. ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... MEANS!" the traveller said, bowing before his introduction; and I wondered how the Maluka could have thought for one moment that "mere men" would prove unsatisfying. But as I acknowledged the gallantry Dan looked on dubiously, not sure whether pretty speeches were a help or ...
— We of the Never-Never • Jeanie "Mrs. Aeneas" Gunn
... dubiously, "that you ever shipped cattle into this country. I supposed you shipped them out. ...
— The Lure of the Dim Trails • by (AKA B. M. Sinclair) B. M. Bower
... down from his perch rather dubiously, as if he feared that the danger might not be ...
— The Outdoor Chums - The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and Camera Club • Captain Quincy Allen
... him dubiously. He saw that she—naturally enough—did not believe in his disinterestedness, that she hadn't a suspicion of his change, or, rather collapse, ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips
... small dish of olives and another containing slices of red sausage of the thickness, consistency, and flavour of a postage stamp. The Englishman looked dubiously at these delicacies and shook his head—still obviously desirous of giving no offence. Soup was more comprehensible, and the sailor consumed his portion with a non-committing countenance. But the fish, ...
— The Grey Lady • Henry Seton Merriman
... 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 ...
— The Evolution Of Man Scientifically Disproved • William A. Williams
... you can explain it, dear," she murmured dubiously. "It'll be easier for you to make Deforrest understand about it when he comes. He's so wrapped up in that girl.... He'll be here in a few minutes, I think, if the ...
— The Secret of the Storm Country • Grace Miller White
... 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 ...
— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... For she wheeled the mustang, swerved from a grasp at her bridle, and went galloping back to the coach. He twisted in his saddle, pushed his sombrero higher on his head, and dubiously watched her flying from him, a lithe, trim figure in snug Hungarian jacket, the burnished tendrils fluttering on the nape of her neck, the soft white veil trailing like a fleecy cloud from her black amazona hat. He ...
— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
... suppose not," replied Jimmie, dubiously. He was on his guard against tricks. Suppose they were to enlist him as a worker, and then make ...
— Jimmie Higgins • Upton Sinclair
... 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
... Smiling dubiously he gripped the pommel. The pony had sunk to its knees, and as it leaped to free itself the little man's legs ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... dubiously. It was apparent that he suspected her of trickery. Information such as had been supplied to the Greek Government would, he knew, be paid for, and at a high price. Had mademoiselle's lover had a hand ...
— The House of Whispers • William Le Queux
... free as gallantly as a schoolhouse or a forest-ranger station. Around it the crowd looked black and dense from the railroad station. It gave an impression of great activity and earnest business attention, while the flag was reassuring to a man when he stepped off the train sort of dubiously and saw it waving there at ...
— Claim Number One • George W. (George Washington) Ogden |
