Let him expatiate on sound to the bounds of fancy's extravagance, she could confidently follow, and would have volunteered her testimony to a doubter, as if all were a question of tangible fact, to be definitely proved.

There was a doubter in Donegal, and he would not hear of ghosts or sheogues, and there was a house in Donegal that had been haunted as long as man could remember, and this is the story of how the house got the better of the man.

In this way he was kicked out by his own boots, and Donegal was avenged upon its doubter.

Bar, Oh! break the sadness Of the doubter's sin; Sing eternal gladness, Thou, my mandolin.

I find I am no longer a believer: I am a doubter.

[person who doubts] doubter, skeptic, cynic.; unbeliever &c 487.

" The Professor adjusted his glasses and turned them upon the doubter for the space of three minutes, but Holman was blissfully ignorant of the look which the angry archaeologist favoured him with.

A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty; containing, among Many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the Disastrous Projects of William the Testy, and the Chivalric Achievements of Peter the Headstrong,the Three Dutch Governors of New Amsterdam: being the Only Authentic History of the Times that ever hath been or ever will be published.

We need not recall the penalties considered most suitable for the crime of religious differencethe rack, the fire, the boiling oil, the tearing pincers, the embrace of the spiky virgin, the sharpened edge of stone on which the doubter sat, with increasing weights tied to his feet, until his opinions upon heavenly mysteries should improve under the stress of pain.

Every advance in inquiry makes our ignorance the more evident; the doubter alone is free.

There is one single point at which doubt is forced to haltat the doubter, at the self-existence of the thinker.

From the fact that I doubt, i.e., think, it follows that I, the doubter, the thinker, am.

As the weeks passed by, even the greatest doubter became convinced that the business of the store was improving.

Others had doubted and had afterwards believed; for the doubter silence was a duty; the blinded had better keep their misery to themselves.

As they passed on, an armed Mormon stepped to the side of each man and walked with him, thus convincing the last doubter of their sincerity in wishing to guard them from any unexpected attack by the Indians.

" Joel Rae would have taken more comfort in this championship of his views if it were not for his suspicion that Elder Wardle sometimes spoke in a tone of levity, and had indeed more than once been reckoned as a doubter.

" The play must have been baptised as "Pride's Cure" soon after Hallowe'en, for at Christmas it was submitted under that title to Kemble, and about the same time (December 28, 1799) we find Lamb defending the title (with the vehemence and subtlety of a doubter, as I read) against the adverse criticism of Manning and Mrs. Charles Lloyd.

make haste to help me.'" "I cannot fancy it, I do assure you," said the little doubter; "you seem to me so very, very good.

You find this type of doubter everywhereand especially in India where official rank is but the guinea stamp and gold is brass without it.

It puts one in mind of the judgment of the renowned "Walter the Doubter," who decided between two citizens, that, as their account books appeared to be of equal weight, therefore their accounts were balanced, and that the constable should pay the costs.

His last week; an imaginary narrative of Thomas, the doubter.

His last week; an imaginary narrative of Thomas, the doubter.

From this last I learned to drop my abrupt contradiction and positive argumentation, and to put on the humble inquirer and doubter.

A single champion of an idea would once challenge a doubter and prove his hypothesis by the blood of the disputant; you do the same thing on a great scale.

It has swept like a hurricane of fire through the land, compelling faith from the baffled scoffer and the most determined doubter.