12 Metaphors for uncertainties

" "Pardon me, your honour; uncertainty would be a better word, as applied to so good a soldier.

[Footnote 2: The uncertainty as to the color of his eyes is a tribute to their expressiveness.

His only uncertainty was Anne herself.

The uncertainty which exists in regard to the validity of land titles in California is a subject which demands your early consideration.

The uncertainty of all our verificatory processes, however, is not the creation of the pragmatist, nor is he a god to abolish it.

The inference seemed sufficiently natural; but the slight uncertainty was the basis of many entertaining dreams through the day.

To remove, as far as may be, this uncertainty from the domain of conduct is the task of advancing civilisation, and specially of those members of a community who have sufficient leisure, education, and intelligence to review the motives and compare the results of actions.

She had been feeling for years past that "'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all;" and she knew that uncertainty of the right to love and trust would have been a pang beyond all she had suffered.

Doubters no longer doubted, uncertainty became conviction; in a situation without a precedent, the precedent was established; the corps d'elite of all state soldiery was answering the national summons; and once more the associated states of North America understood that they were first of all a nation indivisible.

We both read and hear bitter complaints about the uncertainty of human affairs; and yet it is that uncertainty alone that gives life its relish, for novelty is the real and radical cause of all our enjoyments.

" His uncertainty became incredulity.

Her uncertainty as to what he would do next was a delightful sensation: why, she did not know nor care.

12 Metaphors for  uncertainties