doubtful advantage
Example Sentences
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It is a very doubtful advantage, in all conscience, for a man to find himself preyed upon because he is no longer obscure.
From Autobiographical Reminiscences with Family Letters and Notes on Music by Gounod, Charles
The presence of the company of regulars was a doubtful advantage.
From Montcalm and Wolfe by Parkman, Francis
It was, as I have previously indicated, panic legislation yielded in haste to unreasonable clamour, unfair to the railways, and of doubtful advantage to traders.
From Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland by Tatlow, Joseph
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
"A doubtful advantage in some ways," said Sophia; but the little children were now heard crying, so she ran from the room.
From What Necessity Knows by Dougall, Lily
