The one is self-reliant, helpful, and versatile, not freighted with any old-world rubbish; while the other is abject, and blindly reverent, and full of the old mythic imagination that is in strong contrast with the keen common-sense of the Protestant, who dispels all twilight fantasies with a laugh of utter incredulity.

Henshaw echoed with a certain scornful incredulity.

"May one ask what you mean by that?" Henshaw's contemptuous incredulity was by no means diminished even by the other's confident attitude.

I protested with polite incredulity.

" Both Donna Florinda and her less experienced pupil knew enough of human nature, to consider this generous incredulity as a favorable sign of the integrity of her who manifested it, and they wisely contented themselves with stipulating that Annina should on no account be made acquainted with their situation.

Every woman who favours him confirms him in his wicked incredulity.

But although this behavior flatters you, if you consider that such acts are not intended to be of long duration, how badly reasonable women, who value their reputation, misunderstand their true interests by thus multiplying through an affected incredulity, occasions for slandering them.

This was very provoking, but, by this time, we were so much accustomed to have the true and simple account of our plans and intentions treated with civil incredulity, that we felt almost disposed to allow the frequent insinuations of our concealed political character to remain uncontradictedso useless were all our endeavours to satisfy the natives as to our real position.

I saw that he suspected my veracity, and there is always on these occasions such a decided and impenetrable incredulity in a Frenchman as precludes all hopes of convincing him.

He no longer took Clotilde with him on his visiting days, because she discouraged his patients by her attitude of aggressive incredulity.

Thus you may know commendation but not commendatory, credulous but not incredulity, invalid but not invalidate or invalidity.

The girl listened with a cool incredulity in her eyes, and went back to her work.

Nothing but determined incredulity can make us deaf and blind to our own acts, when we are so ready to yield an assent to all the reproaches which are thrown out on the enemy, and upon which reproaches we are gravely told to continue the war.

No great speed certainly; nothing to demand astonishment or excite incredulity.

Cato's veracity was so impeccable that the extremest incredulity a Roman could express of anything was to say, 'I would not believe it even if Cato had told me.'

He protested in advance with a ferocious incredulity.

There was a note of flat incredulity in her voice.

I thing 'e is oneegcellen' drug-clah, ha, ha!" Clotilde replied with a smile of grieved incredulity.

He pretended always to treat the affair with humorous incredulity, yet at heart he was sorely troubled.

Clotilde let slip, in a tone of indignant incredulity, a soft "Ah!"

Thus you may know commendation but not commendatory, credulous but not incredulity, invalid but not invalidate or invalidity.

he exclaimed, with a sort of joyful incredulity.

Marianne saw Colonel Dickinson with the fingers of one hand buried in his plump breast; the other had reared his hat aloft, frozen in place in the midst of the last flourish; and never in her life had she seen such mingled incredulity and terror.

"A fighta real fightwith fists?" continued the officer in charge, in a tone of mock incredulity.

Can the enquirer be blamed if he goes away believing that a soldier's red coat is all that he has? 'But the most obdurate incredulity may be shamed or silenced by acts.