All 3 Uses of
incredulous
in
The Time Machine
- I remember vividly the flickering light, his queer, broad head in silhouette, the dance of the shadows, how we all followed him, puzzled but incredulous, and how there in the laboratory we beheld a larger edition of the little mechanism which we had seen vanish from before our eyes.†
Chpt 1incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected
- The new guests were frankly incredulous.
Chpt 2 *incredulous = not believing
- Very dimly I began to see the Morlocks about me—three battered at my feet—and then I recognized, with incredulous surprise, that the others were running, in an incessant stream, as it seemed, from behind me, and away through the wood in front.†
Chpt 9incredulous = unbelieving; or having difficulty accepting something so unexpected