" Mary had risen, about to take her leave, but to her surprise Beaumaroy went on quickly, with one of his confidential smiles, "And now I'm going to show you that I have the utmost confidence in you.

The second principle is mutual confidence, which can NEVER exist without the first.

There, after awhile, I begin to regain a little confidence.

He does not stir us as some writers do, but he gains our implicit confidence.

But if the white men after this passage did not feel an absolute confidence in Nicholas's fairness of mind, no such unworthy suspicion of them found lodgment in the bosom of the Prince.

At the same time the men placed at the head of the Government were such as possessed the fullest confidence of the people.

" "Anything you say to me will be in strict confidence," said Crewe a little grimly.

I know in reason Vander'll lend the cow for a spell"Uncle Pros always had unbounded confidence in the good will of his neighbours toward himself, since his own generosity to them would have been fathomless"I know in reason he'll lend hit, 'caze they ain't got no baby to their house.

He had supreme confidence in his companion, and felt that he was in safe hands.

I've unlimited confidence in your ingenuityquite unlimited.

Later I developed sufficient confidence to experiment with and breed more difficult types of fish, like Siamese Fighting Fish and Blue Guramies-all under the expert tutelage of Ashok.

The docile and obedient could be kept away from contagion, or if infected, could be easily cured by an act of blind confidence in the Church; while the disobedient would go their own way in any case.

No writer before him has shown such a love to God, such a childlike confidence in him.

The Flemings are absolutely German, and in this war they treat us with friendly confidence.

Taps will sound in five minutes, and I can only add that I am in good health, glorious spirits, and unshaken confidence that we shall return to Acredale before your longing to see your son overcomes your love of glory.

Or what effects will it produce, but that which every man appears to desire, the reestablishment of the publick tranquillity, a firm confidence in the justice and wisdom of the government, and a general reconciliation of the people to the ministers.

Yet calm confidence prevailed from the very beginning.

He loved our free institutions, he had a serene and steady confidence in their duration and his published writings are for the most part eloquent pleas for freedom, political equality and toleration.

Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted, let me serve Thee with active zeal and humble confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.

In the very week of his accession to the throne he wrote to her with great affection, assuring her of his devotion to her interests, and expressing his desire to correspond with her in the most unreserved confidence.

They burst into a guffaw of laughter, and Abe, not even conscious that he had betrayed a sacred confidence, sputtered and laughed with the rest.

Joe was planning to exploit a new patent as soon as he could earn enough to get it introduced, and Ethel exhibited a sublime confidence in the boy's ability that rendered all question of money insignificant.

"I have come here to tell you in strictest confidence who the poor fellow really is.

He was essentially a man of action, prompt, eager and able: probably no one ever had a more thorough confidence in his own ability.

There was something inexplicable in the affectionate confidence she felt in this strange, old man.