1 With panic in her heart, Scarlett did not know whether to tell Melanie of Rhett's words and have the dubious comfort of her misery or keep it to herself.
2 Sometimes he listened with dignified interest to details of her businesses, nodding approval at her sagacity, and at other times he called her somewhat dubious tradings scavenging, highway robbery and extortion.
3 He avoided his dubious cronies and was seen no more in the company of Yankee officers, Scallawags and Republicans.
4 It was new and rather stiff, and that made him dubious.
5 A fortnight of dubious calm succeeded my return to Thornfield Hall.
6 So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the Houyhnhnms.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan SwiftContext Highlight In PART 4: CHAPTER VIII. 7 The lower and interior space was soon filled by substantial yeomen and burghers, and such of the lesser gentry, as, from modesty, poverty, or dubious title, durst not assume any higher place.
8 And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia 9 In one corner lay some ironmongery of dubious aspect.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 10 At the sixth he began to reflect that the search was rather dubious.
11 Then indeed, borne down with dubious terror, I was motionless, my hair stood up, and the accents faltered on my tongue.
12 Three dubious days of blind darkness we wander on the deep, as many nights without a star.
13 And this was what caused his dubious, inquiring, sometimes hostile, expression, and the shyness and uncertainty which Vronsky found so irksome.
14 He looked very dubious; but I made a grab at his arm, and he understood at once I meant him to steer whether or no.
15 I didn't take particular notice," he said, dubiously, "not knowing the ways of the place.