Tib's keen reasonings about young Lady Penrhyn's indifference to cash, which had at first seemed but 'dubitable' to the Highland Danaë, gradually acquired force from the strength of corroborative evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times] Reference
I'll give him 4, which I don't think is reasonably dubitable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
When they are delivered by authority they are dubitable, confused, and lack self-evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Astell] Reference
That's a much better reason for erasing a love than achieving some dubitable victory over We-Don't-Call-Him-God!. From Wordnik.com. [Amazing Spider-Man #545 Kinda Review | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference
Indeed, one character gives birth by Caesarian section, which I found inherently dubitable, and doubly so since both baby and mother survive the operation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-04-01] Reference
Yet a viable criterion should (a) also distinguish our knowledge claims about the external world, and (b) mark solipsistic claims as dubitable to begin with. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Gassendi] Reference
Will it please you if it should require them to be persuaded, but not fully persuaded; to believe it, but with little and dubitable certainty of faith, or uncertainty rather?. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed] Reference
Reform would afford their at least equally dubitable opponents. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
Dainty and delightful creatures in all their ways, -- voice only dubitable, but. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
It was an odd little encounter, that left vague and dubitable impressions in her mind. From Wordnik.com. [Ann Veronica, a modern love story] Reference
The in debt and doubt was inserted to reflect Latin cognates like debit and dubitable. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
Now, compare this dubitable image to this close up of the image at the Sistine Chapel. From Wordnik.com. [RedState] Reference
Here are no heights of truth overlooking the confused landscape of that dubitable domain. From Wordnik.com. [Can Such Things Be] Reference
Here are no heights of truth over - looking the confused landscape of that dubitable domain. From Wordnik.com. [Can Such Things Be]
Also at the time you where saying it was entirely indubitable which using extreme doubt is not the case, it is dubitable. From Wordnik.com. [Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52] Reference
If I think of anything else I'll post it. dubitable ... funnily enough, it was an AJATT fan that asked me if I knew of a good Japanese link. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Comments Across MetaFilter] Reference
Seating him self by the fire, he looked dejected and melancholy, and his face bore in dubitable evidence of a personal encounter with some one. From Wordnik.com. [ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE] Reference
Her face grew grave for a moment before she turned upon Mr. Rogers that smile which, if usually latent and at the best not entirely feminine, was her least dubitable charm. From Wordnik.com. [Poison Island] Reference
The matter of drawing the formal contract, for instance, must be attended with all possible legal safe-guards, especially when we were dealing with a person whose honor was perhaps dubitable. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Wollaston] Reference
It shall in no wise be construed to infringe or draw into Question our in - dubitable Right to what is before offer'd them; And that the Matter be refer'd Home & humbly submitted to her Majesties. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
Till at length it has come to pass that the worth and authenticity of all things seem dubitable or deniable: our best effort must be unproductively spent not in working, but in ascertaining our mere Whereabout, and so much as whether we are to work at all. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 20-39] Reference
Your own conduct had excited suspicion; some visitors from Bath to this gentleman and his family had revealed everything; and, in deference to the claims of an innocent lady, I could not refuse to confirm what was no secret to the world in general, what was already known to them in particular, what was not even doubted, and alas! not dubitable. '. From Wordnik.com. [Henrietta Temple A Love Story] Reference
Without suffering ourselves to derive too much complacency from transient fervors of devotion, we should carefully and frequently prove ourselves by this less dubitable test; impartially examining our daily conduct; and often comparing our actual, with our possible services, the fair amount of our exertions, with our natural or acquired means and opportunities of usefulness. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity.] Reference
My whole stomach hurts when I contemplate such an eventuality—it would be throwing her broken upon a world which she despises; I would be a ruined man for years—but, alternatively, I have reached the point of submersion if I must continue to rationalize the irrational, stand always between Zelda and the world and see her build this dubitable career of hers with morsels of living matter chipped out of my mind, my belly, my nervous system and my loins. From Wordnik.com. [A Life in Letters] Reference
It is clear to see in this case that a very specific state of things is required for the truth of the analyzed proposition, and hence the truth of it will be far more dubitable than the truth of the vague assertion with which one began the process (PLA. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Logical Atomism] Reference
What a dubitable honor. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Official U.S. Military Dictionary Includes ‘Escalation,’ Not ‘Surge’] Reference
For Great Britain, for example, instead of the secret, dubious and dubitable Cabinet, which is the real British government of to-day, poised on an unwieldy and crowded House of Commons, we should have open government by the representatives of, let us say, twenty great provinces, Ulster, Wales. From Wordnik.com. [An Englishman Looks at the World] Reference
It is notable enough, surely, how a Theorem or spiritual Representation, so we may call it, which once took in the whole Universe, and was completely satisfactory in all parts of it to the highly-discursive acute intellect of Dante, one of the greatest in the world, -- had in the course of another century become dubitable to common intellects; become deniable; and is now, to every one of us, flatly incredible, obsolete as Odin's Theorem!. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
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