1 This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE 2 But Pearl's laugh, when she was caught, though full of merriment and music, made her mother more doubtful than before.
3 It was certainly a doubtful charm, imparting a hard, metallic lustre to the child's character.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVI. A FOREST WALK 4 Nay, the longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard; and sometimes, for a few painful minutes, she believed it to be no more than friendship.
5 I was so doubtful of myself now, and put so much trust in him, that I could not satisfy myself whether I ought to refer to it when he did not.
6 For some time, I am doubtful of Miss Shepherd's feelings, but, at length, Fate being propitious, we meet at the dancing-school.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT 7 I am doubtful whether I was at heart glad or sorry, when my school-days drew to an end, and the time came for my leaving Doctor Strong's.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY 8 He had been doubtful at first whether to take Littimer or not, but decided to leave him at home.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21. LITTLE EM'LY 9 To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 10 She looked at him hastily, and for the first time, as if she were doubtful of what he had said.
11 But general propositions as to feeding on meal and on grass were doubtful and obscure.
12 Levin followed him, more and more doubtful whether he was doing right or wrong.
13 Not with the brightness natural to cheerful youth, but with uncertain, eager, doubtful flashes, which had something painful in them, analogous to the changes on a blind face groping its way.
14 But with a doubtful glance at Rachael.
15 With doubtful glimmer lights the dreary forest.