19 Metaphors for suspicion

Enough takes place to the present day to justify this feeling; but formerly, when the most thrifty subjects could buy governorships, and shamelessly fleece their provinces, such outrageous abuses are said to have been permitted until, in process of time, suspicion has become a kind of instinct amongst the Filipinos.

Only, of course, suspicion remains suspicion, even though it be, for the moment, baffled.

Just think, dear FLORA, what heaps of sorrow I should endure, if that base man's suspicion about my alpaca waist should be only a pretence, to frighten me into ultimately receiving his addresses.

JIMSY'S SUSPICIONS ARE ROUSED XVIII.

Who knows? He manufactures snares, traps; but suspicion is now the order of the day around him; each holds himself on the qui vive.

And these dim suspicions, these far-off longings and fearful hopes, were, indeed, precursors of such a movement of spirits, such a shower of supernatural mercies, as the world has not perhaps seen for centuries.

'Suspicion is very often an useless pain,' iii. 135.

It was not a little gratifying to us to see that the time had come in the West Indies, when the suspicion of having been opposed to emancipation is a stain upon the memory from which a public man is glad to vindicate himself.

JIMSY'S SUSPICIONS ARE ROUSED.

The '41 massacre was still as fresh in every Protestant's mind as if it had happened only the year before, and suspicion of Rome was a passion ready at any moment to rise to frenzy.

Trifles light as air are proofs to him that his suspicions are realities, and life is no longer worth living.

"Suspicion isn't evidence.

"Suspicion is a strong word, perhaps, to use at this point in the story.

"Suspicion is an enemy to content."

Suspicion, Jealousy.] Suspicion, and jealousy, are general symptoms: they are commonly distrustful, apt to mistake, and amplify, facile irascibiles, [2508]testy, pettish, peevish, and ready to snarl upon every [2509]small occasion, cum amicissimis, and without a cause, datum vel non datum, it will be scandalum acceptum.

It wouldn't do to act until he was sure that his suspicions were a certainty.

"Suspicion, however, is one thing and proof is another.

This suspicion became a matter of controversy both in that year and in the following, which proved so unhealthful that great numbers perished during its progress.

To all these passionate expostulations the attorney could only reply that vague suspicions were not judicial proofs; and that if Mr. Frederick Everett would persist in his obstinate reserve, a fatal result was inevitable.

19 Metaphors for  suspicion