Doubting

Examples

• Seeing me still standing at the place where we had parted, he stopped, as if doubting whether I might not wish to speak to him again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You must not deceive yourself into doubting the reality of my words--my fixed intention and resolve. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• By these and other experiments this doubting disciple confi rmed Hutton's theory, and became one of the great founders of experim ental geology. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I got through some jargon to the effect that I took the liberty of doubting that. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Marianne was quite angry with her for doubting it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• The mother looked up at him with sudden, dark interrogation, as if doubting his sincerity. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Elinor tried to make a civil answer, though doubting her own success. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I will tantalize her, keep her with me, expecting, doubting; and when I _do_ restore them, it shall not be without a lecture. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Ralph was inclined to give himself up entirely to poetry, not doubting but he might make great proficiency in it, and even make his fortune by it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Are you conscious of any reason in your own mind for doubting him? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A few weeks afterward I received a letter from one of my London friends, who was a doubting Thomas, upbraiding me for coming so soon under the spell of the 'Yankee inventor. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had been; but they had given him up until to-morrow, not doubting that it was later than he would care, in those parts, to be out. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It greatly helped the diplomatists to carry on their game of Great Powers to convey politics in this form to the doubting general intelligence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was thinking; he was doubting--he spoke again. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I returned on board a little puzzled, but still not doubting. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Fanny with doubting feelings had risen to meet him, but sank down again on finding herself undistinguished in the dusk, and unthought of. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Mr Venus contemplated his fellow-man and partner with doubting eyes, and then rejoined stiffly: 'This is great news indeed, Mr Wegg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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