"Skeptically" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... again skeptically. "Those letters you showed to identify yourself cinched it. Why, one was signed by his brother-in-law, Miles Feversham, and your draft was on the Seattle National where the Morgansteins bank. But it's all right; ...
— The Rim of the Desert • Ada Woodruff Anderson
... her lorgnette and gazed at him skeptically from the spot just behind his left ear where the barber had clipped him too short, to the edge of his right heel that the bootblack had neglected to polish. Apparently she did not even see the ...
— Molly Make-Believe • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
... are too bewildered to do this. You are in a new world, and you find yourself surrounded by spirits, telling you that you're dead. The spiritualists say that many new arrivals refuse to believe they are dead, and look around skeptically at heaven, and think they are dreaming. It often takes a long time to convince them. This must be rather awkward. It's as though no one who arrived in Chicago would believe he was there, but went ...
— The Crow's Nest • Clarence Day, Jr.
... he is as devoted to Donna Catherine as she is to him. I heard they were proverbial for their mutual affection and domestic happiness. How could he so have loved before?" demanded, somewhat skeptically, a ...
— The Vale of Cedars • Grace Aguilar
... a man's believing that he, himself, is all Atoms of matter, and nothing else," responds OLD MORTARITY, skeptically. ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870 • Various
... about twilight two men stood in the gathering shadows of the Plaza. They were old friends, but had in times of stress stood on opposite sides. The elder man shook his head skeptically. ...
— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White |
