There is a blessed uncertainty about its advent that keeps every one on the tiptoe of expectation, and probably benefits circulation.
Game as yet is not exactly plentiful: neither yesterday nor the day before could it be said that birds flock to his gun; there is, indeed, a settled uncertainty as to whether one may or may not have a good day's sport.
And yet perhaps this very uncertainty gives an additional excitement to the game.
And so you were willing to run such a risk with the vague uncertainty of winning my daughter?
But the uncertainty of it all is what appeals to me.
I feel somewhat anxious to know, being a little tormented with uncertainty as to how I stand with her.
All the fine array of arguments against the uncertainty of apperceptions collected by Antiochus I have given to Varro; I answer him myself, and you are the third speaker in our conversation.
The uncertainty was almost as great, this he granted; but behind him he believed to be the pressure of the people's will--which the schemes of politicians had not turned.
But when alone his uncertainty appeared--and he acknowledged to himself that he was afraid of Rann's last card.
There is the usual uncertainty as to whether the food will be good, bad, or indifferent, until the first two meals have put the matter beyond a doubt; there is the usual uncertainty about the weather, until the ship is fairly off Fire Island.
In the very names of the twelve Apostles there is an uncertainty as to one, whose name was either Lebbaeus, Thaddaeus, or Judas.
But uncertainty of volition which is more than a reflection of uncertainty of conditions is the mark of a person who has acquired imbecility of character through permanent weakening of his springs of action.
But if change is genuine, if accounts are still in process of making, and if objective uncertainty is the stimulus to reflection, then variation in action, novelty and experiment, have a true meaning.
Reflection upon action means uncertainty and consequent need of decision as to which course is better.
It is easier to think of the world as fixed, settled once for all, and man as accumulating all the uncertainty there is in his will and all the doubt there is in his intellect.
Under the title of freedom men prize such uncertainty of conditions as give deliberation and choice an opportunity.
The occasion of deliberation, that is of the attempt to find a stimulus to complete overt action in thought of some future object, is confusion and uncertainty in present activities.
But the experimental character of moral judgments does not mean complete uncertainty and fluidity.
To admit ignorance and uncertainty in man while denying them to nature involves a curious dualism.
It is matter of surprise in any case that considering the uncertaintywhich prevails as to the precise locality of the reef, its position on the English Admiralty Charts should not at least be marked doubtful.
Amory promptly, a joyful note of uncertaintyin his voice.
For a few seconds he said nothing whatever, then as with a startled sense of uncertainty she turned towards him he spoke.
Mary Ann seemed to have forsaken her, and she was in some uncertainty as to how to proceed when she was at length ready to leave her room.
Ah, what a veil of uncertainty was upon the future!
The more complicated a machine is, the liker it grows to mind, in the matter of uncertainty and apparent caprice of action.
A heavy drag-weight upon the powers of some men is the uncertainty of their powers.
If a consciousness of the uncertainty of life can dispose you to serious and useful thoughts, I would not deprive you of the benefit of such reflections, whether you do eventually recover or not.
The uncertainty I am in concerning her fate, and the apprehensions her fainting have occasioned in me, keep me in this languishing condition you reproach me with.
At last he came to the port, in as great uncertainty as ever what he should do.
It is impossible to describe the meeting of the sultan and his consort, but their joy was clouded by the absence of their daughters, and the dreadful uncertainty of their fate.
However, disagreeable as her prison was to her, it was much less grievous than the thoughts of Ganem's misfortune, the uncertainty of whose fate was a killing affliction.
He was nevertheless tempted to get down, mount one of their horses, and lead another, driving his asses before him with all the haste he could to town; but the uncertainty of the event made him choose the safest course.
It is the glorious uncertainty of golf that makes it the game it is.
He started to address his ball, and there was a weak uncertainty in the way he did it that prepared me for what was to come.
There was no uncertainty as to the direction of the tracks in the snow.
Even in the uncertainty of the future it is easy to see that the national freedman and the national creditor have a common fortune.
In this uncertainty I shall wait, even if all other things are propitious.
Any present uncertainty on this last point I attribute to the failure of precedents sufficiently clear and authoritative; but with me there is one rule in such a case which I cannot disobey.
The Minister of Finance stated that it had been difficult to draw up a Budget, in view of the uncertainty as to the development of the political crisis in Europe; he had tried to steer a sober middle course.
There were many factors of uncertainty in shipbuilding, and delay of one part reacted on others.
It had developed from a weak, wobblinguncertainty into a lusty full-blooded thing that grew and grew until it promised soon to become mansize.
I wonder now why I did not go mad with the joy, and the pain, and the uncertainty of it all.
And with this fineness of breeding has come some uncertainty of disposition.
They must have tramped for nearly an hour, but the very uncertainty of the outcome of their quest gave it a touch of adventure and kept them going.
Besides, the uncertainty of the law would have a much worse effect on credit than uncertainty as to the personal status of individuals.
Future feelings are reduced to present ones, by allowing for their distance, and the uncertainty of their occurrence.
An evidence of theuncertainty of the history of prices in the middle ages is, that Jacob, ch.
