I took a revel of the scene; I drank the elastic night-air—the swell of sound, the dubious light, now flashing, now fading.
The fact was not dubious, nor did he wish it to be so: he left signs of each visit palpable and unmistakable; hitherto, however, I had never caught him in the act: watch as I would, I could not detect the hours and moments of his coming.
Scarcely could I believe that not forty-eight hours had elapsed since I left London, under no other guardianship than that which protects the passenger-bird—with no prospect but the dubious cloud-tracery of hope.
" Peg bustled away to gather up a dubious assortment of chairs, with backs and rungs missing, and in a few minutes we were in a circle around her roaring stove, getting dried and thawed out.
Uncle Alec was dubious about our going that day.
His experience told him that intervention was too dubious a responsibility to be lightly incurred; the possible issue either of an endeavor to restore the former relations with Lucy and Philip, or of counselling submission to this irruption of a new feeling, was hidden in a darkness all the more impenetrable because each immediate step was clogged with evil.
Maggie in her crude form, with her hair down her back, and altogether in a state of dubious promise, was a most undesirable niece; but now she was capable of being at once ornamental and useful.
The speaking face told plainly enough that, if there was joy, it was of a very agitating, dubious sort.
English sunshine is dubious; bonnets are never quite secure; and if you sit down on the grass, it may lead to catarrhs.
Another Love-Scene Early in the following April, nearly a year after that dubious parting you have just witnessed, you may, if you like, again see Maggie entering the Red Deeps through the group of Scotch firs.
Tom saw no reason why they should not make up this quarrel as they had done many others, by behaving as if nothing had happened; for though he had never before said to Philip that his father was a rogue, this idea had so habitually made part of his feeling as to the relation between himself and his dubious schoolfellow, whom he could neither like nor dislike, that the mere utterance did not make such an epoch to him as it did to Philip.
The question seemed a very dubious one to Will, and his repugnance to again entering into any relation with the banker might have made him dismiss it quickly, if there had not arisen in his imagination the probability that his judgment might be more safely determined by a visit to Middlemarch.
Every morning now she sat with Celia in the prettiest of up-stairs sitting-rooms, opening into a small conservatory—Celia all in white and lavender like a bunch of mixed violets, watching the remarkable acts of the baby, which were so dubious to her inexperienced mind that all conversation was interrupted by appeals for their interpretation made to the oracular nurse.
In fact, the world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.
" Marilla looked dubious for a moment.
" Marilla was not to be drawn from the safe concrete into dubious paths of the abstract.
" But so dubious was Uncle Benjamin as to whether Valancy could really come down in a minute—or at all—that he followed Mrs.
He avoided all dubious points and it was plain to be seen he hoped for the best.
Manock, dubious about Jobs's appearance, asked for the money up front.
Wozniak was dubious that they could sell them all.
