Hemming and hawing

Usage examples of uncertain.

I was a sickly and precarious and tiresome and uncertain child, and lived mainly on allopathic medicines during the first seven years of my life.

No doubt it shows at the same time how uncertain Origen was as to the applicability of popular conceptions when he was dealing with the sphere of the Psychici.

Such is the construction of any choche employed to carry an Elder Architect, ambassador or other luminary about the uncertain streets of Ornice Olorun.

But such attribution is uncertain because skeletal remains are usually absent at tool sites.

We uncertain spellers, five or six ballet fans, sat in the gallery of the Stadttheater and looked on critically at the recital that the ballet master had ventured to stage with the help of Madame Lara.

A great part of his baronage held aloof, uncertain where their interests lay.

Even at this moment as he gazed on de Batz the greed and the cruelty in him were fighting one of those battles the issue of which is always uncertain in men of his stamp.

During the three or four days in question, Bernard lingered on at Baden, uncertain what to do or where to go, feeling as if he had received a sudden check-- a sort of spiritual snub--which arrested the accumulation of motive.

Gordon answered that his movements were very uncertain, and that he should be sorry to trouble Bernard to follow him about.

The result shows how uncertain are all speculations in regard to the manurial requirements of plants.

Preventive boat drew closer, the voices of the men hushed, growing more uncertain as the minutes ticked by with no mermaid song.

Ariadne, her arm flung out as if to push away the intervening air and impel herself forward, arrested by the charged glance that passes between Bacchus and herself, seemed by that very act to lose power, to be rendered uncertain, while Bacchus, his near nakedness easily outclassing her draped figure, demonstrates that he has no need to emphasize this act of possession.

Jeanie herself was the bonniest lassie in the whole town, but light-headed, and fonder of outgait and blether in the causey than was discreet of one of her uncertain parentage.

We know that to a depth of about a hundred miles the mantle consists predominantly of a type of rock known as peridotite, but what fills the space beyond is uncertain.

On a good day, which meant a day when the physios managed to goad her sufficiently, Catherine could manage one or two uncertain steps on callipers and crutches, rolling along like a caricature of a peg-legged sailor.