Viewed with an eye of suspicion, there is indeed something questionable in the selection of the medical attendant.
Matters had continued in this position for some weeks, when objections were raised by some of Mr. Anderton's relations to what they not unnaturally considered the very questionable propriety of the proceeding.
And here we arrive at what is at once the most significant, the most extraordinary, and the most questionable of the evidence we have been able to collect.
Hitherto his energy had expended itself in the questionable shape of revolt against constituted authority.
It might be fairly argued--as Defoe argued, though with questionable sincerity--that such a temporary compliance would be really injurious to dissent.
His personal attacks, indeed, upon the party have a questionable sound.
Crafty and ambitious, he is already deep inquestionable ventures, and high as he carries his head at present, there will assuredly come a day when Kuo Wang will appear in public with his feet held even higher than his crown.
Ning, "the opening of this enterprise forecasts a questionable omen.
Both of the male persons concerned have applied themselves so tenaciously to the ordeal that the result, to this simple one's antique mind, savours overmuch of the questionable arts.
The Censor K'o-yih, he who rebuked Shan Tien's ambitions and made him mend hisquestionable life?
Sun Wei recognized the doubtful nature of the stone as it passed between his teeth, and he would have spat it forth again, but Leou had the questionable agility of the serpent and slipped down the other's throat.
The Pharisees had just complained to the disciples that Jesus ate and drank in questionable company.
In questionable taste, no doubt, but one does not stand upon trifles when it is all for sweet charity's sake.
Well, we don't often indulge in that rather questionable amusement, although we are accustomed to use the club freely throughout the daytime.
Eventually he was made governor of a frontier province, where under pretense of a foreign threat he proceeded to recruit an army of alarming proportions and questionable allegiance.
This story is questionablebut it does illustrate the reputation Ikkyu enjoyed, both as artist and lover.
All he had to do was to skip lightly over the questionable parts; instead of which he fairly roared them in the faces of my guests.
Think of his insolence in reading my guests out of my drawing-room and showing me up as a lover of questionable literature.
Just how this was attached to the frame of the machine so that it placed the tool at a suitable radius is again a questionable point.
These were of little consequence for common work, particularly when coupled to a screw which, itself, was of questionable accuracy.
Nothing but his own sense of right and prudence restrained Colleoni upon the path which brought Francesco Sforza to a duchy by dishonourable dealings, and Carmagnola to the scaffold by questionable practice against his masters.
Nor, though his character for probity and loyalty stood exceptionally high among the men of his profession, was he the slave to any questionable claims of honour or of duty.
His Egyptian medals are few and of questionable genuineness: the majority of them seem to be purely Hellenic; but on one he bears a crown like that of Isis, and on another a lotos wreath.
Yet it is questionablewhether this policy will not eventually prove a profitable one.
Were it not for the saving thus gained it is questionable whether it would be possible to manufacture steel commercially in the South.
Already, it was clear, it had disgorged this man Blodgett, and these other questionable characters at the inn.
Mr. Edgington's cool manner of approaching him with this questionable and shady political job had generated some heat in Florian--a man always possessed of strong convictions concerning civic purity.
And if Mr. Gladstone jumped at conclusions upon insufficient and questionable evidence, was Lord Salisbury responsible for that?
I agree with you as to the inherent superiority of music--as that questionable woman, the Countess Hahn-Hahn, says painting and sculpture are but an idealizing of our actual existence.
It determined in him, the way this came from her and what it somehow did for her-it determined in him a speech that would have seemed a few minutes before precarious and in questionable taste.
I saw no questionable look upon it,--but he has a remarkable command of his features.
Colonel Humphreys, in fact, states that he was acquainted with only "one questionablecase of a contrary nature.
With regard to such matters as these, it is hardly questionable that mankind from the first took strictly positive and scientific views.
For China to assert authority by interference and to make herself responsible for Tibet's shortcomings would be a questionable policy, against which two wars ought to be a sufficient warning.
Among the crew were men whose antecedents, so far as they could be ascertained, were of the most questionable kind, and whose conduct on board had, from the first, been suspicious.
At the matinees there are women of questionable repute who unblushingly advertise their calling and who must be set down as a feature most objectionable to the respectable portion of any community.
I fancied that we had exhausted some of the most vital questions bearing upon the questionable poetry of the present and the unquestionable poetry of the past; but I was mistaken; for after dinner I had a visit from Mr. Gilbert.
I congratulated one of the gardeners upon his anchusas, and he smiled in an eminently questionable way.
Constant reference to this preposterous invention is made in the pages of Punch, and the prince's questionable taste in the matter of military costume is specially satirized in Leech's amusing cartoon entitled Prince Albert's Studio.
