doubtful advantage
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Dora appeared to think that a decidedly doubtful advantage.
From A Fourth Form Friendship A School Story by Brazil, Angela
The question then was, should he risk the almost certain decisive victory over the organized enemy's force ashore, for the sake of a much more doubtful advantage over the organized force afloat?
From The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
There below and behind Him were the caves and rude dwellings of the outlaws and fugitives from justice who had sought the doubtful advantage of security from the laws of man.
From Mystic Christianity by Atkinson, William Walker
Respecting which we have to note first, that all such property is of doubtful advantage even to its possessor.
From Unto This Last and Other Essays on Political Economy by Ruskin, John
The presence of the company of regulars was a doubtful advantage.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
