In reply to a sceptical remark from Lanky, Booden declared that "the old shell looked as though it might have been built in the time of Ferdinand and Isabella, for that matter.
I have dwelt upon this point, about which I naturally have some feeling, because of the sceptical criticism which my narrative has since provoked.
Bishops and priests have only advertised sceptical books by forbidding their perusal to the faithful; and as the devout have been instructed to live by faith, but not how to give a reason for the faith which is in them, in the result M.
He expects to find political questions discussed, but so far as religion is concerned he accepts without knowing it the current convention of the pressman, and imbibes a semi-sceptical atmosphere without misgiving or suspicion.
There was a sceptical as well as a believing school, such as finds its expression in the festal Dirge of King Antef of the Eleventh dynasty.
The religion of poor people is largely custom; I complain of educated people not that they are sceptical but that they are not sceptical enough.
He plainly was chafing at her delays, and as plainly made it evident that he was sceptical of her gaining proof.
I am sceptical with regard to some manifestations, but I certainly do believe in this one, and I often regard my candle anxiously, fearing that I may see a winding-sheet in it.
A friend of mine, who was very sceptical in such matters, was fishing in this stream late one evening when he suddenly saw a boat shoot round the bend.
But I can't blame you for feelingsceptical about it, Phil.
The first origin of their intercourse was an undertaking, on the part of this gentleman, to convert to a firm belief in Christianity some rather sceptical friends of his, then at Argostoli.
Indeed, the elimination of the diabolic factor leaves the modern sceptical belief that such apparitions are nothing more than the result of disease, physical or mental.
But the semi-sceptical state of thought was in Shakspere's time making its way only amongst the more educated portion of the nation.
The most sceptical have ever been the most credulous.
A sceptical young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr.
All this, however, is but a concession to the sceptical spirit.
Still, he urges that "the use made of them in the sceptical propaganda is often illegitimate.
One looks forward with interest to the conversion of Herr Ballin to a less sceptical theology.
The operator, instructed by the captain, sceptical soul, refused the friendly suggestion.
This fact will prove tosceptical people that our Chief's words in Warsaw were quite intelligible to us in London.
But his infidelity and his sceptical views were not diminished.
If at any time in his life he was sceptical of the divine origin of the Bible he ought not for that reason to be condemned; for he accepted the practical precepts of that great book as binding alike upon his head and his conscience.
And a poetry of doubt, even a sceptical poetry, in its true sense, can never possess clear and sound form, even organic form at all.
And my too scepticalmind at one time inclined to doubt even Pompey's first edition; which was wrong, and could have occurred only to a lover of paradoxes.
Conversation turning upon whales, the Commodore was pleased to be sceptical touching the amazing strength ascribed to them by the professional gentlemen present.
The better sort of people treated the old man with a kindness due rather to his calamities than to his profession, while the more sceptical of the rabble who did not fear him, seem to have amused themselves occasionally at his expense.
A few sceptical friends, not believing all they had heard regarding the superstitious notions of fishermen, were advised to put a young pig among some fishermen's lines on board of a boat at Newhaven pier.
If I were inclined to be sceptical on spiritual matters, I should not be of the race I am; for I am also a Chaldean.
The ordinary manifestations, to my mind, are worse than useless, unless they have been preceded by extraordinary ones; so that the doctor returned home more sceptical than before, and I repented that I had taken him there.
All the sceptical writings of England put together will not make half the number that have appeared in Protestant Germany during the last twelve or fifteen years.
He also publishes many of thesceptical and licentious writings which have so much disturbed the peace of Germany.
All this was a good trading job; for sceptical and free-thinking writings have every where a good market; and Nicholai was not only reviewer, but publisher, having presses in different cities of the Empire.
I am too sceptical to be an ethical adviser; and as for good resolutions, I believed in them when I was young.
Well, Otto, I was wrong; I have forsworn my sceptical philosophy; and I perceive your faults to be unpardonable.
It was an answer that appalled the most sceptical of us, and we felt individually that in the presence of such earnest purpose as the Professor's, a purpose which could thus use the to him most sacred of things, it was impossible to distrust.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sceptical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
