dubitable

He had acquired the stone in dubitable ways, from a more than sinister source.

It was an odd little encounter, that left vague and dubitable impressions in her mind.

Here are no heights of truth over- looking the confused landscape of that dubitable domain.

Like Bill Lundborg's periods of sanity, it was a dubitable thing.

And though others forget, or haply deem her no more than a vain and dubitable tale, I shall never cease to lament Commoriom.

For I recall a dim, dubitable prophecy, made in the primal years, at the founding of Yethlyreom and the empire of Cincor.

He could believe no longer in love or youth or beauty; and even the memory of these things was a dubitable mirage, a thing that might or might not have been.

Crime and Punishment is a ghostly book in which all three - murderer, detective, reader - tiptoe mentally round dubitable presences and absences, and create between themselves strange large silences.

"They have lent a voice of dubitable authority that's been picked up by the press as though God the Father had come down from the clouds with a pronouncement," Mr. de Montebello said.

For the basic beliefs stand in inferential relationship with more interesting beliefs about public objects, and these beliefs are certainly dubitable; there is always a possibility that someone should have a reason to doubt them.

The recent exposures of the profound financial rottenness of the Liberal party have deepened the public resolve to permit no such enlarged possibilities of corruption as Tariff Reform would afford their at least equally dubitable opponents.

Amid the seething of strange rumours, many half-forgotten tales were recalled, and new legends were created overnight Much was made of the obscure nativity of Nathaire and his dubitable wanderings before he had settled, six years previous, in Vyones.

Those incidents and impressions of Ilalotha's funeral, which, at the time, had seemed so dubitable and dream-like, returned to him with a profound conviction of reality, as if etched on his mind by some mordant chemistry of sleep... or the strengthening of some sorcerous charm.

Then you should be able to figure out what Bishop Archer had in mind during the period following Kirsten's death and preceding his own, the first a given, the second an ominous but dubitable possibility, not a reality, not then, at least, although from our standpoint now, as hindsight, we can comprehend it as inevitable.

Suggestions abound that the arrest was politically motivated, coming as it did just a day after Bheki Cele, reacting to an article by Wa Afrika which detailed the police chief's involvement in a dubitable R500,000,000 lease agreement, described him as "shady" and hinted at reprisal.

And while awards to plaintiffs weren't as lucrative as in the States-the record still stood at about $30,000 U.S., given to the family of a woman who'd been asphyxiated by a faulty water heater-judges regularly granted monies to dubitable claimants based on a "fairness principle" that implied that the rich should help the poor.