"Dubiousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a morning Susan stood at a turn in the road, gazing after a departing vehicle with ill-concealed satisfaction and yet withal some dubiousness. Now that the plan, suggested by Mauville, had not miscarried, certain misgivings arose, for there is a conscience in the culmination wanting in the conception of an act. As the partial realization of the situation swept over her, she gave a gasp, ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... to remember, my dear Louisa,' said Miss Toxin a tone of low and earnest entreaty, 'that nothing but the—I have some difficulty in expressing myself—the dubiousness of the result would have induced me to take so great a liberty: "Welcome, Master Dombey," would have been much more congenial to my feelings, as I am sure you know. But the uncertainty attendant on angelic strangers, will, I hope, excuse what must otherwise appear an unwarrantable ...
— Dombey and Son • Charles Dickens |
