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Sentences starting with doubtful

Doubtful securities were likely to realize more than was expected. [4]

Sentences ending with doubtful

Whether Dudley Veneer would ever find a breathing image near enough to his ideal one, to fill the desolate chamber of his heart, or not, was very doubtful. [6]
But the wife was doubtful. [5]
Daylight will clear up all that lamp-light has left doubtful. [6]
Smith understands working up a narration, and makes this combat long and doubtful. [4]
Whether he ever thought that if he could save her from ruin, he could give her up himself, is doubtful. [5]
No doubt if their colours had been brilliant, they would have been much more conspicuous to their enemies; but whether their dull tints have been specially gained for the sake of protection seems, as far as I can judge, rather doubtful. [1]
The fortunes of the Sellers play were most uncertain and becoming daily more doubtful. [5]
Nathan also said that some man, whom he could not remember, had said lately that Menard County was going to decide the contest and that made the contest very doubtful. [7]
If they did tell her, and Frank happened not to arrive, it might unnerve her so as to make her appearance in the evening doubtful. [11]
One of these statements is doubtful. [5]

Short sentences using doubtful

Doubtful, most people said. [5]
The result is not doubtful. [7]
A doubtful acquisition, indeed! [5]
I think this doubtful. [5]
But that's sure doubtful. [13]
It seemed a doubtful scheme. [5]
He looked doubtful, but accepted. [11]
Or doubtful? [5]
Doubtful! [5]

More example sentences with the word doubtful in them

In each of your letters to us, you will state the number of certain votes both for and against us, as well as the number of doubtful votes, with your opinion of the manner in which they will be cast. [7]
If they meet with men who are doubtful as to the man they will support, such voters should be designated in separate lines, with the name of the man they will probably support. [7]
It was doubtful whether those whom they expected would return that night, and the Roman soldiers who were loyal to Antony had gone with him to the war. [10]
It is doubtful whether this should be considered a case of puerperal fever. [3]
It appears doubtful whether such colours often serve as a protection; but that we may easily err on this head, will be admitted by every one who reads Mr. Wallace's excellent essay on this subject. [1]
It is doubtful whether Kamehameha approved of the plan of the chiefs and priests to sacrifice men, as he was known to say, 'The men are sacred for the King;' meaning that they were for the service of his successor. [5]
It was doubtful whether he wished to be relieved of his embassy or not. [6]
Any time; to-day,--next week, next month,--I answered.--One of those cases where the issue is not doubtful, but may be sudden or slow. [6]
In this there was a covert compliment to Caesar, who, after a doubtful victory over that valiant people, had assumed the name of Alemannicus. [10]
They were to wait in front of the Town Hall, because it was doubtful whether the daughter of the house, who had been very reluctant to go to the entertainment, might not urge an early departure. [10]
He had laboured under the delusion that matrimonial conditions were still what they had been in the Eighteenth Century--although it is doubtful whether he had ever thought of that century. [9]
I mean to try to knock off tomorrow, but it's doubtful if I do. [5]
It was not true, but the story had value for me, for it made me nervous, and nervousness wakes a person up and makes him alive and alert, and heightens the thrill of a new and doubtful experience. [5]
One post ran to meet another, and one messenger ran to meet another; and it was even reported--though on doubtful authority--after the rally in his town the Honourable Jacob Botcher had made the remark that, under certain conditions, he might become a reformer. [9]
Indeed, for a time the issue had seemed doubtful, for the endurance and persistence of the Seigneur made for exasperation and recklessness in his antagonist, and once blood was drawn from the wrist of the great man; but at length Lempriere went upon the aggressive. [11]
Although at another time Mr Swiveller might have looked upon this as a doubtful compliment, he felt it, under the then-existing circumstances, a great relief to be assured that he was not wrongfully suspected. [12]
This was the time at which the "notes" of any who were in affliction from loss of friends, the sick who were doubtful of recovery, those who had cause to be grateful for preservation of life or other signal blessing, were wont to be read. [6]
I persuaded myself this evening that I could fetch him around without any great amount of effort, but I've been getting more and more heavyhearted and doubtful straight along, ever since. [5]
Pennybacker had been there several times during the winter, and he suspected that he was involving Mr. Bolton in some doubtful scheme. [5]
Many people pity them, and I always did it myself and never charged anything; but it is doubtful if this compassion is valued. [5]
As already noticed, the Protestants are broken up into a long array of sects, a result of disputes about the meanings of texts, disputes made unavoidable by the absence of an infallible authority to submit doubtful passages to. [5]
There was always the incentive to the upstart political and military buccaneer to overthrow the dictator and gain possession of the spoils, to sell new doubtful concessions and levy new tribute on the capitalists holding claims from a former tyrant. [9]
He realised now that such a fate was not for him-- that he must fight, not on the field of battle like a prince, but in a Court of Nations like a doubtful claimant of sovereign honours. [11]
I am aware that much remains doubtful, but I have endeavoured to give a fair view of the whole case. [1]
It is true that I am the one most frequently appealed to as the highest tribunal in doubtful cases, but I often care more for Number Five's opinion than I do for my own. [6]
It was only that he had intervals --frequent intervals, and rather long ones--when he did not admire it, and was still more doubtful as to the ways of providence. [5]
It seemed more than doubtful whether my health would ever permit me to devote myself to a practical profession or an academic career, and my interest in jurisprudence was too slight to have it allure me to make it the subject of theoretical studies. [10]
It is popularly supposed that the disintegration and distribution of a great fortune, especially if it has been accumulated by doubtful methods, is a benefit to mankind. [4]
All wonderful things soon grow doubtful in our own minds, as do even common events, if great interests prove suddenly to attach to their truth or falsehood. [6]
Jack was like some other men who lose heart not when they are doing a doubtful thing, but when they have to face the consequences --cases of misplaced conscience. [4]
When we were snugly lodged in the tree and curtained with foliage, the king was satisfied, but I was doubtful. [5]
In one instant she was doubtful whether or not to be angry, and in the next grew ashamed of the provincialism which had caused her to suspect an insult. [9]
The Lord must set our piety in a doubtful light, for He treats us as though we were unworthy of all care. [10]
This is the sentence: One stranger, an American, has settled on the island--a doubtful acquisition. [5]
This has always seemed a doubtful thing to me, and not entitled to much credit. [5]
It is, to say the least, doubtful, and it certainly cannot be proved historically, that Peter ever was in Rome. [9]
The Vicomte, who sat on Mrs. Holt's right, and who apparently was determined not to suffer a total eclipse without a struggle, gallantly and unexpectedly came to his hostess' rescue, though she treated him as a doubtful ally. [9]
Some of the sanguine men have set down all the States as certain for Taylor but Illinois, and it as doubtful. [7]
After the first report of your subcommittees, unless there should be found a great many doubtful voters, you can tell pretty accurately the manner in which your county will vote. [7]
I need not remind you that the outcome is doubtful. [9]
I have always regarded him as a doubtful dog, and so has Potter. [5]
The Mistress looked rather grave, as if doubtful whether she ought not to signify her disapprobation of what seemed to her dangerous doctrine. [6]
The above average proportion of 110.1 to 100 is probably nearly correct in the case of the greyhound, but whether it would hold with other domesticated breeds is in some degree doubtful. [1]
But on general principles it is my opinion that a colt out of a coyote and a wild-cat is no square dog, but doubtful. [5]
Even were the presence of the temporo-occipital, or external perpendicular, sulcus, a mark of distinction between the higher apes and man, the value of such a distinctive character would be rendered very doubtful by the structure of the brain in the Platyrrhine apes. [1]
When you have planted anything early, you are doubtful whether to desire to see it above ground, or not. [4]
It was a perilous thing to try in a tale, but I never believed it a doubtful one--provided I stuck strictly to business and didn't weaken and give up: or didn't get lazy and skimp the work. [5]
There may be people who can read that page and keep their temper, but it is doubtful. [5]
These were my own thoughts as I listened to the tones of the priest as they came, droningly, out of the door, while Nick was exchanging jokes in doubtful French with some half-breeds leaning against the palings. [9]
I notice only one doubtful place. [5]
Thus she writes on March 24th;-- "Anne's decline is gradual and fluctuating; but its nature is not doubtful. [14]
The bloody machine offered but a doubtful outlook--and will still offer nothing much better for a long time to come; for when Davis's "three weeks" is up there's three months' tinkering to follow I guess. [5]
They halted afar off, squared away to look, came slowly forward with whinnies for their mistress, and doubtful snorts for the strangers and their horses. [13]
This gentleman was of those who arrive in Newport upside down; and was even now, with the somewhat doubtful assistance of his wife, making lavish and pathetic attempts to right himself. [9]
All the rest of the legend was doubtful. [5]
Although the mandibles of the common stag-beetle, and probably of many other species, are used as efficient weapons for fighting, it is doubtful whether their great size can thus be accounted for. [1]
Of the reception of the "Columbus" the author was very doubtful. [4]
Without the use of some language, however imperfect, it appears doubtful whether man's intellect could have risen to the standard implied by his dominant position at an early period. [1]
This modern experiment of putting us through the world--the world of literature, experience, and travel--at excursion rates is of doubtful expediency. [4]
The doubtful means of making money, the pace of fashionable life, the wasteful prodigality of the time, we instinctively shrank from speaking of before Margaret. [4]
Here's a list of doubtful ones, and you'll see they're of consequence. [11]
The doubtful light of dawn was beginning to break through the storm-clouds as they exhausted their fury on the Serapeum, but the terrified heathen did not notice it. [10]
But it is obvious that the evidence in all the above cases is doubtful. [1]
An observer must notice that the usual theatre-audience in New York or Boston today laughs at and applauds costumes, situations, innuendoes, doubtful suggestions, that it would have blushed at a few years ago. [4]
Moreover, there is nothing to surprise me or you in the fact that a noble woman, as she is, should assume the onus of another's crime, and place herself in a doubtful light to save a man who has hitherto been honest and faithful. [10]
The hero is not forgotten, by any means, or held in doubtful veneration. [5]
Your saying, you no longer consider it a doubtful State is very gratifying. [7]
You do not need to invent any picturesquenesses; whatever you want in that line he can furnish you; and they will not be fancies and doubtful, but realities and authentic. [5]
No sooner was my father safely on his way to his office than Thomas Jefferson was reported to be in the alley, where we assembled, surveying with some misgivings Thomas Jefferson's steed, whose ability to haul the Petrel two miles seemed somewhat doubtful. [9]
Well might Barbara's mother say to Kit's mother that the gallery was the place to see from, and wonder it wasn't much dearer than the boxes; well might Barbara feel doubtful whether to laugh or cry, in her flutter of delight. [12]
How far in most cases they actually sympathise in the pains and pleasures of others, is more doubtful, especially with respect to pleasures. [1]
It is still more doubtful whether such dull tints can have been gained for the sake of ornament. [1]
Sudden and strongly marked variations are rare; it is also doubtful whether if beneficial they would often be preserved through selection and transmitted to succeeding generations. [1]
Dyck had seen many people, representing the gaiety and deviltry of life; but it was as though many doubtful people, many reckless ones, all those with purposes, fads, and fancies, were there. [11]
Whether he would listen to the performance was doubtful. [10]
Not in the least, not even to herself, in her virgin musings; nevertheless, the world was changed for her, it was more serious, more doubtful, richer, and more to be feared. [4]
This is at least doubtful, if not more than that. [5]
That is the kind of a review to have; the doubtful man; even the prejudiced man, is persuaded and succumbs. [5]
All I know is that where any advantage is to be gained for the Queen, she does not shrink even from doubtful means, and also that the hours speed swiftly for any one in her society. [10]
But this interpretation is as doubtful, as the many others which have been attempted. [10]
The Whig majority in the House is so small that, together with some little dissatisfaction, [it] leaves it doubtful whether we will elect them all. [7]
Something I find in me that well might claim The love of beings in a sphere above This doubtful twilight world of right and wrong; Something that shows me of the self-same clay That creeps or swims or flies in humblest form. [6]
Whether the literary impulse which was born in him would have ever insisted upon any but an occasional and fitful expression, except for the necessities of his subsequent condition, is doubtful. [4]
It is doubtful if there is a spot in Europe where he can be ordinarily warm in winter. [4]
I am doubtful if the wife knows even where he lies. [11]
It is doubtful if Lindau altogether liked this as well. [8]
It is doubtful if it could be left by will. [4]
It was doubtful if any sacrifice could save him from ruin. [5]
Is it spreading, I wonder--this disposition of pilots to renew their youth by doubtful methods? [5]
Old Dr. Lemuel Hurlbut, at the age of ninety-two, very deaf, very nearly blind, very feeble, liable to odd lapses of memory, was yet a wise counsellor in doubtful and difficult cases, and on rare occasions was still called upon to exercise his ancient skill. [6]
There is still, however, a large and an augmenting number of doubtful cases upon which the government is unable to agree with the governments whose protection is demanded by the claimants. [7]
It is doubtful how far cases of this kind will be trusted to its tender mercies, but wherever it acquires any considerable foothold, such cases must come, and with them the ruin of those who practise it, should any highly valued life be thus sacrificed. [3]
She was six hours behind Ba'tiste, and, going hard all the time, it was doubtful if she could get there before the fatal hour. [11]
He made up his mind that he would never play earl's son again before a doubtful audience. [5]
Gorgo had met him with a doubtful and embarrassed air; but when she learnt of the blow that had fallen on him and his parents, she clung to him caressingly and tried to comfort him. [10]
The doubtful money he mentions was the paper issued by private banks, "wild cat," as it was called. [5]
Councils of war have no value but to decide between two or several doubtful courses. [5]
The circumstances would have failed of effect with a general of another temperament: he might see the chance, but lose the advantage by being by nature too slow or too quick or too doubtful. [5]
Thus far, we have considered Old Phelps as simply the product of the Adirondacks; not so much a self-made man (as the doubtful phrase has it) as a natural growth amid primal forces. [4]
Dyck would not have accepted the doubtful honour had he not had long purposes in view. [11]

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