1.Yesterday it looked doubtful that I could finish my report on time. Today, however, it seems less dubious.
2.The smaller lads would always draw back in fear when the bully raised a fist, but this time they did not recoil.
3.“He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.” (Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe)