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While this has its obvious dubieties and disadvantages, any other course would have smacked of prettification—a fate which such a book as "Yama" surely does not deserve.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

The fracas with Dobson had done him all the good in the world, for it had cleared the problem of dubieties and had put an edge on his temper.

From Huntingtower by Buchan, John

To proceed on any other assumption would not only be to ignore the all-powerful first-night audience, but to plunge into a veritable morass of inconsistencies, dubieties and slovenlinesses.

From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by Archer, William

Ferdinand is in a strongish, but yet a dangerous position; and will give difficulties, and does give endless dubieties, to these high-plumed gentlemen galloping about with their spy-glasses for eight days.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Carlyle, Thomas

Hence their liveliness and certainty, greater than men can reach who are concerned with the dubieties and changes of incomplete things.

From Letters from America by Brooke, Rupert