"Y-e-s," answered Judith, with provoking dubiousness and a wicked little smile.
"Throckmorton"
Molly Elliot Seawell
"Well, I hope so," said the ex-sailor, with a little depressive dubiousness.
"From Jest to Earnest"
E. P. Roe
Any one who wants to appreciate Mr. Long's merits as a translator may read, in the original and in Mr. Long's translation, the seventh chapter of the tenth book; he will see how, through all the dubiousness and involved manner of the Greek, Mr. Long has firmly seized upon the clear thought which is certainly at the bottom of that troubled wording, and, in distinctly rendering this thought, has at the same time thrown round its expression a characteristic shade of painfulness and difficulty which just suits it.
"Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold"
Matthew Arnold