Example Sentences

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"Is it the part of manhood to persecute a woman, Mr. Law?" she asked, her own uncertitude now showing in her tone.

From The Mississippi Bubble by Hough, Emerson

If disagreements terminating in strikes and lock-outs remained as numerous as they are at present, there would result both for the producer and consumer a condition of perilous and perhaps intolerable uncertitude.

From The Promise of American Life by Croly, Herbert David

At times she poised with sickening uncertitude on the crest of a greater wave, then steadied, and leapt with the breaking water to the smoother hollow.

From The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea by Bone, David W.

It must ever be recollected that these various phenomena of mind, though signs, are not infallible signs of uncertitude; they may proceed, in the particular case, from other circumstances.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry