"Doubtfully" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... life, is remarkable in every great Venetian during the times of the prosperity of the state; nor are instances wanting in which the private feeling of the citizens reaches the sphere of their policy, and even becomes the guide of its course where the scales of expediency are doubtfully balanced. I sincerely trust that the inquirer would be disappointed who should endeavor to trace any more immediate reasons for their adoption of the cause of Alexander III. against Barbarossa, than the ...
— Stones of Venice [introductions] • John Ruskin
... not at all rich, my dear, but quite what your papa would approve of," she said, seeing the little girl look doubtfully at them. ...
— Elsie Dinsmore • Martha Finley
... time about going on and she began a little doubtfully. "I always begin by being unjust to Paula," she said. "That's my instinct, I suppose, reproaching her for not doing what she would do if she were like me. But afterward when I think her out, I believe ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster
... I?" he cried, walking up and down the room in a restless way. "Am I not a widower? Has she not died completely out of my life? I shall never see her again—she is dead and buried, and I am free? Ah, do not look at me so doubtfully, do not take back the sympathy which you promised me! Are you going to turn me away, hungry and thirsty for kindness, because you imagine that my need is greater than you thought it five minutes ago? I will not ...
— Name and Fame - A Novel • Adeline Sergeant
... her doubtfully for a moment, then said, "Well, I suppose you have reasons for resentment, but I assure you he has ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... point in his day-dream William took another look at the sleeping Miss Spratt, felt his biceps doubtfully, and ...
— Happy Days • Alan Alexander Milne
... were still in possession of their paternal estates, looked doubtfully on each other, and there was something whispered among them of the fox which had ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott
... suddenly rose to her feet and made her way to the altar railing. There she paused, staring vaguely at a basket of flowers, white and odorous, that had been left there by some reverent worshipper. She glanced doubtfully at the swinging silver lamps, the twinkling candles; she was conscious, too, of a subtle, strange fragrance in the air, as though a basket full of spring violets and daffodils had just been carried by; then, as her wandering gaze came back to the solitary woman in ...
— Stories By English Authors: London • Various
... rose from the table, and opened a box of cigarettes which stood on the mantelpiece. And the girl, instead of picking up her letter again, glanced at him a little doubtfully. ...
— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher
... had secured a wicker basket with a close-fitting cover which roused the liveliest curiosity and caused Andrea to ask, doubtfully: ...
— Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon • Lucy M. Blanchard
... are making fun of us!" said Eleanor, doubtfully. "No, indeed, she is not! In the three months' time I was at the Cobb School, I saw some terrific gales sweep over the country!" ...
— Polly of Pebbly Pit • Lillian Elizabeth Roy
... that you had spoken more hopefully last night," said Hermione, doubtfully. "You seem ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford
... means persuaded. She was still a young woman, and a very lonely one; her great prerogatives (which she took seriously) tired her to death, but the need of exercising them through other people was worst of all. Now she said doubtfully, "I have no reason in especial ...
— The Forest Lovers • Maurice Hewlett
... mean," said Clover, not quite convinced, but inclined as usual to admire Katy and think that whatever she meant must be right. "But tell me a little more. You mean to have a wedding-dress, don't you?" doubtfully. ...
— Clover • Susan Coolidge
... of his partner. "He! he! he!" laughed the Ancient, looked aimlessly down the street, then peered at me doubtfully with sad, dim pupils. . . . "He! he! he!" . . . He leaned heavier on the umbrella, and dropped his gaze on the ground. I needn't tell you I had tried to get away several times, but Chester had foiled every attempt by simply catching hold ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... nine years for whom Mrs. Rowlandson had made a cap, and the question as to what was to be done with him occasioned as much debate as if he had been a Jesse Pomeroy [34] or a Chicago anarchist. The opinions of the clergy were, of course, eagerly sought and freely vouchsafed. One minister somewhat doubtfully urged that "although a precept in Deuteronomy explicitly forbids killing the child for the father's sin," yet after all "the children of Saul and Achan perished with their parents, though too young to have shared their guilt." Thus curiously did this English reverence for ...
— The Beginnings of New England - Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty • John Fiske
... radiance, and clear, sunlit glamour, so often found in the artist's pictures. To realize this fully, South Kensington must be visited, for word-painting at its best but poorly reproduces the art that it doubtfully imitates. ...
— Frederic Lord Leighton - An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work • Ernest Rhys
... his head doubtfully and said, "I'll try my best, sir, but I'm afraid I can't do it. It's a long way ...
— Marie Gourdon - A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence • Maud Ogilvy
... in the hall). Thanks. I'll take tea first. (He enters the room, and pauses doubtfully on ...
— The Greater Inclination • Edith Wharton
... looked doubtfully and for a long time at the soldier before he could be convinced. That blind officer motionless on the bench, that figure of heroic grief, was Laurier! . . . At first glance, he appeared prematurely old with roughened ...
— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... some of the species ... nourishing quality is doubtfully erased. It seems clear that he doubted whether such a problematical supply of food would be likely ...
— The Foundations of the Origin of Species - Two Essays written in 1842 and 1844 • Charles Darwin
... religious journalist who exercised much influence over the Methodists, and at the same time fell under the ban of all people who were deeply attached to the British connection. Moderate Reformers now looked doubtfully on Mackenzie, whose principal supporters were Dr. Duncombe, Samuel Lount, Peter Matthews, and other men who took an active part in ...
— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot
... caste, so far as it then prevailed, or denied that men are divided into categories determined by their deeds in other births. But on the whole the influence of Buddhism was unfavourable to caste, especially to the pretensions of the Brahmans, and an extant polemic against caste is ascribed (though doubtfully) to Asvaghosha.[418] On the other hand, though caste is in its origin the expression of a social rather than of a religious tendency, the whole institution and mechanism have long been supported and ...
— Hinduism And Buddhism, Volume II. (of 3) - An Historical Sketch • Charles Eliot
... on windy days." Leaver looked doubtfully at it. "It strikes me as better photographic material than as practical defence against ...
— Mrs. Red Pepper • Grace S. Richmond
... think so?" asked Bonbright doubtfully. "Do you reckon they would listen to me? I don't know. Sometimes I allow maybe I'd better stay here where the Judge wants me to till I'm an older man and ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
... appeare how mercifully God hath looked vppon this realme, retayning within it some sparke of his light, euen in the time of greatest darknes. Neither ought any m[a] to wonder albeit that some things be obscurely and some thinges doubtfully spoken. But rather ought al faithfull to magnifie Gods mercy who without publike doctrine gaue so great light. And further we ought to consider that seeing that the enemies of Iesus Christe gathered ...
— The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) • John Knox
... seemed suspicious, and lifted their graceful heads in a quick, nervous manner, glancing timidly around with their large, gentle eyes, and sniffing doubtfully. At that moment a third deer appeared close to Tranta, and the temptation was too great. With one swift spring Tranta landed on the deer's back, his teeth in its throat. It was a merciful death, for Tranta never let go until the deer ceased to struggle, and then he promptly proceeded ...
— Rataplan • Ellen Velvin
... spoke a little doubtfully, as if he were not quite approving of our family methods, but he was a kindly man who always took the most lenient view of things. He walked far with me, and then I turned and escorted him to the place where he resided, and, bidding good-bye, got a promise from him that he would ...
— The O'Ruddy - A Romance • Stephen Crane
... hardly believe what was told him, and he stood looking doubtfully at Deerfoot, as if suspecting he had heard ...
— The Hunters of the Ozark • Edward S. Ellis
... happen?" Eveley demanded doubtfully. "Did the rest of you change your votes, and ...
— Eve to the Rescue • Ethel Hueston
... forcing her, he drew her to the door, and she went out slowly, reluctantly, doubtfully, the wandering strings of her cap trailing on her shoulders, and her bare feet nipping up the bottom of the ...
— The Manxman - A Novel - 1895 • Hall Caine
... heel in people, but I should think the hind toe of a bird was its heel," said Nat doubtfully, and beginning to ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues
... head doubtfully. "At the price of a lie, my father," he said. "I never will believe it. But let us suppose even that. He ...
— The Widow Lerouge - The Lerouge Case • Emile Gaboriau
... of age, and had quoted some of the friendly and loverlike acts he had performed in her service, until one day they had both found out that his attitude of the elder brother was no longer possible, and that he loved her in the old and only way. Lady Gower looked at her rather doubtfully and smiled. ...
— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis
... surprised at my enthusiasm, but not a bit suspicious or hostile. Rather, he was self-depreciatory. He looked at me doubtfully. "But do you really think—?" he said. "And your play! ...
— The First Men In The Moon • H. G. Wells
... from ignorance or from a desire to evade the question. "A chemist, I think," she said doubtfully. "My husband had some dealings with him—some discovery he was going to buy. I don't know anything about it. I thought the deal ...
— The Silent Bullet • Arthur B. Reeve
... window-pane, clung there a moment like swallows, then were gone, and a drop of water was crawling down the glass. The snowflakes whirled round the corner of the house, like pigeons dashing by. Away across the valley the little black train crawled doubtfully ...
— Sons and Lovers • David Herbert Lawrence
... wept and answered doubtfully. Then she bade him go into the house and prepare for the lads what they might need for the day. And when he was departed she said, "O my sons, I go to a strange land and shall not see you come to fair estate and fortune; nor shall I make preparations for your marriage ...
— Stories from the Greek Tragedians • Alfred Church
... it is accomplished, but I fear it will be long ere that happens," replied the chirurgeon, shaking his head doubtfully. "Are you acquainted with Mother Demdike's history, sir?" he ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth
... Have a service for everybody. A real Christmas service, with holly, and ropes of greens, and a star, and music—and—a sermon," she ended, a little more doubtfully. ...
— On Christmas Day In The Evening • Grace Louise Smith Richmond
... of Salai, and the last is of the year 1513 (see No. 1465, 3). From the various notes in the MSS. he seems to have been Leonardo's assistant and keeper only, and scarcely himself a painter. At any rate no signed or otherwise authenticated picture by him is known to exist. Vasari speaks somewhat doubtfully on this point.] ...
— The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete • Leonardo Da Vinci
... they implored his favour with prayers, that with gracious kindness he would always preserve his offspring. I believe that even then there were some, who in secret were convinced that the king had been torn in pieces by the hands of the fathers—for this rumour also spread, but it was very doubtfully received; admiration for the man, however, and the awe felt at the moment, gave greater notoriety to the other report. Also by the clever idea of one individual, additional confirmation is said to have been attached to the occurrence. For Proculus ...
— Roman History, Books I-III • Titus Livius
... busy man," he said, doubtfully, "very busy. He has his gallery work to do, of course; and then I believe he is engaged on some important philosophical treatise—he has been at ...
— Prince Fortunatus • William Black
... sum. He was sure that Frederic would lend it to him at his earnest request. Anthony was young and inexperienced, he had yet to learn that we are not called upon, in such matters, to think for others, or to do evil that good may come of it. He looked doubtfully in the haggard face of the ...
— Mark Hurdlestone - Or, The Two Brothers • Susanna Moodie
... "Oh," said I doubtfully, not quite appreciating the logic. "Well, we don't want breakfast yet, and the question is, what are we to do? The sergeant's bound to discover our escape at breakfast-time, and a search-party will be ...
— At the Point of the Sword • Herbert Hayens
... finally suggested, though somewhat doubtfully, the question of the probability that Gallia, in her course across the zone of the minor planets, had carried off one of them; but whether it was one of the 169 asteroids already included in the astronomical catalogues, or one previously unknown, he did not presume ...
— Off on a Comet • Jules Verne
... for," returned Miss Dearborn doubtfully; "to make you have things to say. Now in your last one, on solitude, you haven't said anything very interesting, and you've made it too common and every-day to sound well. There are too many 'yous' and 'yours' ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... done that, dear?" she asked, doubtfully, while her heart leaped at the thought. "But my father has horses," she added, on a sudden, in a ...
— A Roman Singer • F. Marion Crawford
... a cover and make her set on the next," she said doubtfully, "but it do seem kinder to teach her hovering a little at a time. Course all women things has got mothering borned into 'em, but it comes easier to some than to others. I always feel like giving 'em a helping ...
— The Road to Providence • Maria Thompson Daviess
... that's from you?" asked Meg doubtfully, slipping into the chair at the desk and taking up the pencil to print her letter. ...
— Four Little Blossoms at Brookside Farm • Mabel C. Hawley
... hesitated doubtfully, half turned toward Carolina, Randolph and Norton, who had followed him, and again ...
— A Gentleman from Mississippi • Thomas A. Wise
... great and noble head, and looked upwards towards the silver stars above them. The Lion shook his head doubtfully, and the children noticed that there was something very like a tear ...
— The Tale of Lal - A Fantasy • Raymond Paton
... pregnancy at the age of thirteen, in a Colonial girl of British origin in Cape Colony, which is notable from other points of view. During pregnancy, she was anaemic, and appeared to be of poor development and doubtfully normal pelvic conformation. Yet delivery took place naturally, at full term, without difficulty or injury, and the lying-in period was in every way satisfactory. The baby was well-proportioned, and weighed 71/2 pounds. "I have rarely seen a primipara enjoy easier labor," concluded Robertson, "and ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... those boys. When at last Stephen Crowley dropped into one of the great pillowy chairs, he instantly sprang up again, and looked at it doubtfully. ...
— Ester Ried Yet Speaking • Isabella Alden
... his scouting hat, knotted the silk handkerchief he took from his throat so as to confine the dark hair that came tumbling almost into his eyes, buckled the holster-belt tightly round his waist, looked doubtfully an instant at his spurs, but decided to keep them on. Then ...
— Marion's Faith. • Charles King
... puzzled and frightened Aileen a little at first. She stood before him one afternoon in her black riding-habit and high silk riding-hat perched jauntily on her red-gold hair; and striking her riding-skirt with her short whip, pondering doubtfully as she listened. He had asked her whether she knew what she was doing? Whither they were drifting? If she loved him truly enough? The two horses were tethered in a thicket a score of yards away from the main road and from ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser
... then, as she had taught him to call it, and she was reading to him. A knock interrupted her. She interrogated the knock doubtfully to herself ...
— A Cathedral Singer • James Lane Allen
... calls the conscientiousness of a [256] Gladstone and the intellect of a Bright,—it is rather our duty to abstain, and, instead of lending a hand to the operation of our Liberal friends, to do what we can to abate and dissolve the mass of prejudice, Tory or Nonconformist, which makes so doubtfully begotten and equivocal an operation as the present, ...
— Culture and Anarchy • Matthew Arnold
... festive appearance. Old Mrs. Bray donned the gray-and-lavender every afternoon, and Myra bloomed out in pink print. She scarcely ever went abroad now, but for all that, her world was infinitely widened. Once Marvin, dangling from two spread fingers a tiny yoke, inquired doubtfully, "Do you think it's big enough to go ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1919 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... curious quality of motherliness in her attitude to me that something in my nature answered and approved. She didn't pretend to keep it up that she had yielded to my initiative. "I've done you no harm," she said a little doubtfully, an odd note for a man's victim! And, "we've had a good time. You ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells
... LUIZ. Exactly—they know His Grace. DUKE. Well, let us hope that the Grand Inquisitor is a deaf gentleman. A cornet-a-piston would be something. You do not happen to possess the accomplishment of tootling like a cornet-a-piston? LUIZ. Alas, no, Your Grace! But I can imitate a farmyard. DUKE (doubtfully). I don't see how that would help us. I don't see how we could bring it in. CAS. It would not help us in the least. We are not a parcel of graziers come to market, dolt! (Luiz rises.) DUKE. My love, our ...
— The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan - The 14 Gilbert And Sullivan Plays • William Schwenk Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
... king?" the cup-bearer repeated doubtfully. "The king sleeps. Will thine interests go to wreck if ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... and tried the handle. The door was locked, and she looked doubtfully at the mate. "I suppose that's a leg of mutton I can hear asleep in there," she ...
— A Master Of Craft • W. W. Jacobs
... square, a fat little man was making strenuous efforts to remove the shutter from in front of his shop. He looked round as Douglas appeared, wiping the perspiration from his forehead, and regarded him doubtfully. ...
— The Survivor • E.Phillips Oppenheim
... face changed;—one would have said she was frightened or troubled. She looked at the girl doubtfully, as if she might hear the master's question and its answer. But the girl did not look up;—she was winding a gold chain about her wrist, and then uncoiling it, as if ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... every tenth man is a poet. Yet people do not boast of having been born there, and natives will pretend they came from Greenock. No one can mention Paisley without a smile, and yet no one can say what amused him. Certain names are the source of perennial laughter, in which their inhabitants join doubtfully, as persons not sure whether to be proud or angry. They generally end in an apology, while the public, grasping vaguely at the purpose of such a place, settle on it every good tale that is going about the world unprovided for and fatherless. So a name comes to be bathed ...
— Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers • Ian Maclaren
... cheeks and temples which seemed to speak of sickness or sorrow. He had glanced at me as he came in, but without any gleam of recognition in his face. Now he glanced again, as I fancied, somewhat doubtfully. When he did so for the third or fourth time, ...
— Little Classics, Volume 8 (of 18) - Mystery • Various
... hardly like her at first, perhaps," Mr. Fairfax went on, doubtfully. "People who don't know much of her are apt to fancy her cold and proud; but to those whom she really likes she is all that is charming, and I don't think she ...
— The Lovels of Arden • M. E. Braddon
... canals are greater than pertain to any possibilities by the old systems of propulsion. It is not sufficient for steam to barely or doubtfully compete with horses, it should supersede them with the same superiorities and same universality that it ...
— History of Steam on the Erie Canal • Anonymous
... sauntering very slowly and doubtfully before. Now he quickened his pace as he thought over his adventures when a prisoner in the elephant-stable; and as he recalled watching the going to and fro of the elephants, he felt more than ever that he ought to be there helping ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn
... be sure, he fainted from utter weakness at the door. Of that he is satisfied, for he remembers nothing between the jolting of those slippery cushions and another bed in which he found himself, with a grave doctor watching over him, and which he recognised, doubtfully, as ...
— M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." • G.J. Whyte-Melville
... a very young gentleman," the landlady said, eyeing him doubtfully, "to be setting up on your own hook. I mean," she said, seeing Frank look puzzled, "setting up housekeeping on your own account. You will have to be particular careful with the frying pan, because if you were to upset the fat in the fire you might have the ...
— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty
... He looked doubtfully up at the edge of the cliff so far above them. "Shucks," he said, with conviction, "ain't nobody up there 'cept old Interpreter, an' that dummy, Billy Rand. I know 'cause Skinny Davis an' Chuck Wilson, they told me. They was up—old Interpreter, he can't ...
— Helen of the Old House • Harold Bell Wright
... Marysville and Farewell trail Racey's horse picked up a fortuitous stone. Racey dismounted. Mr. Saltoun, slouching comfortably back against his cantle, looked doubtfully down at Racey where he stood humped over, the horse's hoof between his knees, tapping with a knife handle at ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... hopeless journey to try to find your brother, and said that if you did get through it alive you were as likely as not to turn up here. I congratulate you indeed. Have you been successful?" and he looked doubtfully at Rupert's companions. ...
— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty
... Review,' July 1st, 1867, p. 32.), are found nowhere else in the world except in S. America, and here no less than four genera occur. One of these, Elaps, is venomous; a second and widely-distinct genus is doubtfully venomous, and the two others are quite harmless. The species belonging to these distinct genera inhabit the same districts, and are so like each other that no one "but a naturalist would distinguish the harmless from the ...
— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin
... a book-maker, undertaker, and adventurer, doubtfully attractive or desirable appellations nowadays; but what higher praise could have been given in colonial tongue? He would have angrily resented being dubbed a publisher; that name was assigned to and monopolized by the town-crier. Usher died worth ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... houses in such streets as Nassau Street. It is part of their duty to go out after dinner on Sunday with the wife and children. The husband pushes the perambulator out of the dingy passage, and gazes doubtfully this way and that way, not knowing whither to go, and evidently longing for the Monday, when his work, however disagreeable it may be, will be his plain duty. The wife follows carrying a child, and a boy and girl in unaccustomed apparel walk by her side. They come out ...
— Mark Rutherford's Deliverance • Mark Rutherford
... on the puff, and it was in two; but the result was not satisfactory to Tom, for he still eyed the halves doubtfully. At last he said, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 • Various
... to believe it is all true." Clarke knit his brows, and looked doubtfully at Dr. Raymond. "Are you perfectly sure, Raymond, that your theory is not a phantasmagoria—a splendid vision, certainly, but a mere vision ...
— The Great God Pan • Arthur Machen
... he could; but repairing harness in the open under twenty or thirty degrees of frost is a difficult task for any man, especially when he has no tools to work with and cannot remove his mittens, and it was at least twenty minutes before he somewhat doubtfully announced that all was ready. He handed Miss Schuyler into the sleigh, and then passed the reins to Hetty, who stood with one foot on the step, ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... father know that you contemplate such a trip?" asked Lorry, returning her handclasp and looking doubtfully into the swimming blue ...
— Beverly of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... according to some authorities, Doctor Heidegger was accustomed to hold consultations in all difficult cases of his practice. In the obscurest corner of the room stood a tall and narrow oaken closet, with its door ajar, within which doubtfully appeared a skeleton. Between two of the bookcases hung a looking-glass, presenting its high and dusty plate within a tarnished gilt frame. Among many wonderful stories related of this mirror, it was fabled that the spirits of all the doctor's deceased patients ...
— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various
... on the dunes, and she sat down behind one of the largest tussocks, on the warm sand. He ventured to place himself by her side, and looked vacantly around him. Every now and then he cast his eye upon her, but still doubtfully. It was clear that he did not grasp the situation, and at length he appeared to her so absurd that she sprang up, and cried, "Come, Per, let's ...
— Garman and Worse - A Norwegian Novel • Alexander Lange Kielland
... child's deportment remains yet to be told. The very first thing which she had noticed in her life was—what?—not the mother's smile, responding to it, as other babies do, by that faint, embryo smile of the little mouth, remembered so doubtfully afterwards, and with such fond discussion whether it were indeed a smile. By no means! But that first object of which Pearl seemed to become aware was—shall we say it?—the scarlet letter on Hester's ...
— The Scarlet Letter • Nathaniel Hawthorne
... in the series is doubtfully indicated by internal evidence. The main character of the Dialogue is Socrates; but to the 'general definitions' of Socrates is added the Platonic doctrine of reminiscence. The problems of virtue and knowledge have been discussed in the Lysis, Laches, Charmides, and ...
— Meno • Plato
... "If I had a month to train him in, eh, what a speakable Perk I'd make him! I'd make him into a Perk that would sit up and speak when I lifted my little finger." She considered this. "I'm not so sure," she concluded, more doubtfully. "How can one tell through those horrid glasses, particularly when one doesn't see him for days ...
— The Unspeakable Perk • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... up, stripped off his spacesuit, and, by hammering with the sole of one of the boots, managed to straighten out the dent in the back of the helmet. He put the suit back on, then looked doubtfully at the control board. It wouldn't do to go on pulling things at random; he might cause some damage. Tentatively, he pushed a slide he remembered touching before. When nothing happened, he pushed it back. He tried a knob, then ...
— The Worshippers • Damon Francis Knight
... comon maner to take it after as we saye / & that it may sone be knowen by suche wordes as partely go before that clause & p[ar]tly folow / & that there be few wordes / but if they be considered so alone / they may anon be taken doubtfully. And first we shal shew if we can y^t it is nat doubtfully wryten / for there is no reasona[-] ble ma[n]: but he wyll take it as we say. Tha[n] shal we declare by that that goeth afore / & foloweth / that it is clerly euin as we say / & that yf we consider the ...
— The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke • Leonard Cox
... saw such a big one, Master," said Janet rather doubtfully, as if, after all, she distrusted its gleaming, pearly depth and richly ornamented frame. "I hope it won't make her vain. She is very bonny, but it may not do her any ...
— Kilmeny of the Orchard • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... she felt extremely languid, compelled herself to walk briskly as her mother had desired; but coming to the foot of the hill she paused, and looked doubtfully upon its steep sides and lofty top. "It reminds me of 'the Hill Difficulty,'" thought Emma; "but the Christian pilgrim did not allow himself to stop and think over the difficulties, but 'addressed himself to his journey.' So must I:" and ceasing to look at ...
— Be Courteous • Mrs. M. H. Maxwell
... she agreed, a little doubtfully. "I hadn't intended to have such a thing, but—why, of course, that would ...
— The Romance of Elaine • Arthur B. Reeve
... man gave a gasp and his eyelids fluttered. The doctor was beside him in an instant, but instead of seeming satisfied by his examination he shook his head doubtfully as he rose from the ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... him doubtfully, but she did not say anything. She braced herself in the stirrups, took a firm grip of the saddlehorn with one hand, and waited for what might befall. She had no fear of Starr, no further uneasiness over the coming night, ...
— Starr, of the Desert • B. M Bower
... his head doubtfully and said slowly that we really ought to have put in the shafts, not Circassian, but Peasant or Siskin; and uncertainly, as though expecting I should change my mind, took the reins in his gloves, stood up, thought a moment, and ...
— The Wife and Other Stories • Anton Chekhov
... doubtfully. "The factor at Pachugan told me Mr. Carr assaulted him. That seems rather odd to me, after what I've seen of your father. Was ...
— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... He looked doubtfully at Mr. Conne, who still sat tilted back, hat almost hiding his face, cigar sticking out from under it like a camouflaged field-piece. He was whistling very quietly, "Oh, boy, where do we go from here?" He had whistled ...
— Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... certainty, moreover, of traces of design in many of the would-be miocene or tertiary flint instruments (which Prestwich is doubtful about).[103] He takes care not to tell us that the Carstadt skull which gives name to a race, is a very doubtfully genuine relic of one hundred and thirty years old, whose history is most dubious. His evidence for the absence of the slightest approximation to the simian type even in the oldest relics is cheering ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell
... uncommon," returned Tom doubtfully, turning his honest eyes on Nicholas again. "He told Mr. Graves that he ...
— The Voice of the People • Ellen Glasgow
... several of them alighting on her shoulders. A half-grown black bear came out of a kennel and shuffled toward her. He was unmistakably glad to see her, but he avoided going near Tige, and looked doubtfully at the young man. But after Alfred had stroked his head and had spoken to him he seemed disposed to be friendly, for he sniffed around Alfred's knees and then stood up and put his paws against the ...
— Betty Zane • Zane Grey
... test says alone or with another scout." Warde said doubtfully. "What do you think? It would be a peach of a chance and I'm crazy to get my ...
— Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh
... It is traced first to Lord Grenville, who received it from his tutor (afterwards Bishop of London), who had taken it as an anonymous poem from the 'Censor's book;' and with very little probability, it is doubtfully assigned to 'Lewis of the War Office,' meaning, no doubt, the father of Monk Lewis. By this anxiety in tracing its pedigree, the reader is led to exaggerate the pretensions of the little poem; these are inconsiderable: and there is a conspicuous fault, which it is worth while noticing, ...
— The Notebook of an English Opium-Eater • Thomas de Quincey
... meant Jack; but I—" She regarded her friend doubtfully. But Mollie Babcock was dressing rapidly, and her ...
— A Breath of Prairie and other stories • Will Lillibridge
... me almost like robbery," remarked Lucile, doubtfully. "Do you think it right for us to take advantage ...
— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls • Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)
... could take Maggie and Lucy there," he went on, looking doubtfully at his hearers. "They wouldn't mind a chap havin' a couple of black lady friends, would they? Yer see, they've stuck with me well, those two gins, and I wouldn't like to leave 'em behind. They'd get into bad hands. They're two as good handy gins as there ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson
... her reply, rather doubtfully given! 'in times she be; but there's something about her I don't quite fancy; the plain fact is, she's rather quair, and I shall go up to the village. You'll not mind being alone, ...
— International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, - No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 • Various
... afraid of being left with these wretches?" I asked a little doubtfully, counting upon her devotion, but loth to lay too great a ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths
... said Abby, doubtfully. "It don't seem as if you ought to be going with—with that kind of person, Maree. We don't associate with drinking men, here in these parts. I don't know how it ...
— Marie • Laura E. Richards
... at this evidence of something like conversion, eyed Jabe doubtfully. He was not sure of the latter's capacity for the tireless patience and long self-effacement necessary for ...
— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts
... tried to speak, then pushing back his chair left the table precipitately. James Jr. looked after him doubtfully. He turned ...
— Michael O'Halloran • Gene Stratton-Porter
... him doubtfully. She assured him she was not tired and that she loved to drive. Had she not told him so at the start? Then, as they left the promontory, her glance followed the road ahead. The bridge was no longer fine as ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... of His listening," he said, doubtfully. "There are the choir-master and the dean and chapter, and the other choristers, and the Cistercians, and the mothers of the other choristers, who wish ...
— St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 4, February 1878 • Various
... at luncheons in snug corners and talked gaily far into the dimness of winter afternoons. Harte had been immediately accorded a high place in the Boston group. Mark Twain as a strictly literary man was still regarded rather doubtfully by members of the older set—the Brahmins, as they were called—but the young men already hailed him joyfully, reveling in the fine, fearless humor of his writing, his ...
— The Boys' Life of Mark Twain • Albert Bigelow Paine
... Hauteville, but Coquenil, watching the prisoner, shook his head doubtfully. There was something in this man's mind that ...
— Through the Wall • Cleveland Moffett
... his wriggling hands into folders, thrashed through a pile of papers and letters that over-flowed a wire basket, and even hauled a dictionary down from the top of the desk and hopefully peered inside the front cover. All the time he kept up comment at which Una smiled doubtfully, not quite sure whether it was ...
— The Job - An American Novel • Sinclair Lewis
... do, Mr. Clifton? Very good of you to come. (Looking doubtfully at his clothes) Er—it is ...
— First Plays • A. A. Milne
... crossed by gleam Of his own image, by a sun-beam now, And wavering motions sent he knows not whence, Impediments that make his task more sweet; 270 Such pleasant office have we long pursued Incumbent o'er the surface of past time With like success, nor often have appeared Shapes fairer or less doubtfully discerned Than these to which the Tale, indulgent Friend! 275 Would now direct thy notice. Yet in spite Of pleasure won, and knowledge not withheld, There was an inner falling off—I loved, Loved deeply all that had been loved before, More deeply even than ever: but a swarm 280 Of heady schemes ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth
... doubtfully. The teaching was seditious, and made a man liable to stocks and pillory; but it tickled the ears of the common folk and 'twas ill to quarrel with the Mendicants. Help came to him in his perplexity: a loud knocking on the barred door made the ...
— The Gathering of Brother Hilarius • Michael Fairless
... the telephone—and then remembered that Paul Harley was out of London. Vaguely wondering if Adderley had played me a particularly gruesome practical joke, I put the box on a sideboard and again contemplated the telephone doubtfully far a moment. It was in my mind to ring him up. Finally, taking all things into consideration, I determined that I would have nothing further to do with the ...
— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer
... then—a whole room full of them, Master Danby. We are not people of no larnin' here, I can tell you. There is big books, an' little books, an' some awful purty books, an' some," she added doubtfully, "as is not ...
— Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, No. 23, February, 1873, Vol. XI. • Various
... Malling by the hand. "I believe I looked round because I knew I should see you. Yet I supposed you to be still in Ceylon." He glanced at the rector rather doubtfully, seemed to take a resolution, and with an air almost of doggedness added, "May I?" and introduced the ...
— The Dweller on the Threshold • Robert Smythe Hichens
... answered Walter doubtfully. "Yes, you may try," he decided finally, extending the whip that he had been idly tapping against his legging. "But don't ...
— The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies • Frank Gee Patchin
... know to whom my thought now turns. I mean our Lord Jesus Christ. And let the life principle, the heart principle, the love principle be one and the same or not, it is he who says of men: "By their fruits shall ye KNOW them;" not doubtfully, but surely. The life record of every man, written not with pen and ink on paper, but with the finger of God on the tablet of his memory, will be the basis of his adjudgment to hell or his acquittal to heaven. For "a good man ...
— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline
... doubtfully. They were nothing but stones, and they had served their original purpose. Still, it had been a rather particular purpose and they were carved with certain names and dates. I was not sure that their owners might not sometime—some weird fall evening, say—take a notion ...
— Dwellers in Arcady - The Story of an Abandoned Farm • Albert Bigelow Paine
... permanent structure. It was a wonderful tribute to Winkleman that it took him only four hours to persuade Simba that there might be another way; and two hours more to convince him that there might even be a better way. When Simba reluctantly and a little doubtfully sheathed his knife, the big Bavarian wiped his ...
— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al
... degrees that Schlieben could convince him that his intentions were serious. But the old man still continued to rub his stubbly chin doubtfully and cast suspicious glances at the lady and gentleman, who had broken in on his solitude so unexpectedly. It was only when Kate, wearied and tortured by the long explanation, seized hold of his arm impatiently, and looking ...
— The Son of His Mother • Clara Viebig
... was over and done, the dream that he had dreamed lay heavy on him. Now of all diviners of dreams Groa was the most skilled, and when Gudruda had been in earth seven full days, Asmund went to Groa, though doubtfully, ...
— Eric Brighteyes • H. Rider Haggard
... said Edith doubtfully; "he need not have looked so stern, were that all; but still he is a kind, indulgent father for the most part. I should not complain;" and the young girl relapsed into thoughtful silence. The pale fire-light glowed on her delicate ...
— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton
... had spoken these words, he paused, like one who had not said his last word; and long did he balance the staff doubtfully in his hand. At last he spake thus—and ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche
... hesitated a moment, and then said doubtfully: "There is one thing I must tell you, Gamelyn. When you threw my porter into the well I swore in my wrath that I would have you bound hand and foot. That is impossible now without your consent, and I must be forsworn unless you will let yourself be bound for a moment, as a mere form, just to save ...
— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt
... too rough for you, Ann," observed Robin, surveying the scene doubtfully, "I don't think even your new-found prowess at swimming will be of much use to ...
— The Vision of Desire • Margaret Pedler
... of self-preservation alike answered, "never a jot." Whereupon with pertinacious, if furtive, activity he sought means of escape. And, at length, after months of hiding and anxious flitting, found them in the shape of a doubtfully seaworthy, and undoubtedly filthy, fishing-smack bound from Le Havre to whatever port it could make on the English south coast. The two days' voyage was rough, the accommodation and company to match. Mr. Verity spent a disgusting and disgusted forty-eight hours, to be eventually ...
— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet
... it sounds all right," I said, though still a bit doubtfully. "Quite possibly it may come off. But I have a feeling that it will slip up somewhere. However, I am in no position to cavil at even a 100 to 1 shot. I will adopt this policy of yours, Jeeves, though, as I say, with misgivings. At what hour would ...
— Right Ho, Jeeves • P. G. Wodehouse |
