doubter

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Doubter Williams and, more particularly, the rear-guard of antistatehood people have a certain amount of cold logic on their side.

From Time Magazine Archive

Philosophical readers of this stamp must have doubtless indulged in dismal forebodings all through the tranquil reign of Walter the Doubter, and considered it what Dutch seamen call a weather-breeder.

From Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete by Irving, Washington

Its broad brim, spread forth grandly and exfoliated, and its round crown swelled and crimped and consolidated until the whole became a prodigious cabbage, rivalling in magnitude the capacious head of the Doubter.

From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Irving, Washington

The first faint scruples of the Doubter are settled by the maxim: 'Believe nothing but thy own reason; there is nothing holier than truth.'

From The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works by Carlyle, Thomas

The modern spectator," says our historian, "who wanders through the streets of this populous city, can scarcely form an idea of their appearance in the primitive days of the Doubter.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various