doubtful advantage
Example Sentences
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"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 Lily Dougall
To gain a battle, unless a final one, was, with a force so small as his, a matter of very doubtful advantage.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
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 Joseph Tatlow
We have already hinted that the royal bride had, though in no great degree, the very doubtful advantage of years.
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Sir Walter Scott
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 Charles Gounod
