Most boys would look sort of dubious about it, but would think it was up to them to be game, and they would take the curry comb and brush all right.

If any one shows up that you're dubious of, plug him and ask questions afterward.

This upstart married Patricia Vartrey, for all the chatter and whispering, and carried her away from Lichfield, as yet a little dubious as to what recognition, if any, should be accorded the existence of the Stapyltons.

Three routes to Teherán were now open to us: back to Baku, thence to Tiflis, and over the mountains to Talriz,very dubious on account of the snow; the second, from Baku to Astrabad, and thence viâ Mount Demavend,still more dubious on account of bad landing as well as blocked passes; there remained to us Astará, and along the sea-beach (no road) to Enzelli, with swollen rivers and no post-horses.

" "But don't you know anything of a housemaid's duties?" inquired Aunt Alice, who was a little dubious in the face of such absolute ignorance.

" Hervey appeared dubious with great skill.

"Looks a little dubious to me, Sally," he observed, although he came on with his chairs.

In conchology only one element, ology, was really dubious at the outset.

His own career seemed no more dubious than trivial.

I have always suspected that I was taken into their secret without their ordinary precautions; and that for a while they were a little dubious for fear that they had spilt the milk of secrecy.

"I think they've been feeling a little dubious over finding us out here in a place which had neither lake, seashore, nor mountains to recommend it.