Usually people were not so niggardly as that with their compliments to Anne, and as she held a half-piqued silence Boone knew that she was offended, so his next question came with a stammering incertitude.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Until now she had been telling herself, as one will tell oneself specious things to prop a tottering resolution, that the ghosts of incertitude and panic would hold dominion only over the days and weeks of waiting.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
There was a girl's vanity, in the first place-almost a child's vanity, fostered by pernicious teaching of frivolous companions-afterwards there was a foolish romantic incertitude-vanity still perhaps-that led me to trust in you, and to give up one who loved me, and for whom I ought to have died rather than have deserted-but there was no love!
"Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3)"
Frederick William Robinson