232 collocations for distrusted

I always distrust men that clamor to be led on; they are the first to break when the brush comes.

But I have no objection," he added in an offhand tone, "as you seem to distrust the lasting power of bluff, to give you an extra safeguard.

The noisy birds could not hear themselves speak, much less him; he shrewdly distrusted his ability to command the attention of the busy bees; and even a member of the Universal Knowledge Society may well be at a loss for a suitable address to an earwig.

To induce the orthodox to fight for their country, by having a leader of their own party, he left the grand duke Notaras in office; yet he well knew that this bigot would never act cordially with the Latin auxiliaries, who were the best troops in the city; and the Emperor had some reason to distrust the patriotism of Notaras, seeing that he hoarded his immense wealth, instead of expending a portion of it for his country.

But he was surrounded with incompetent ministers and bad advisers, who distrusted the people and had no sympathy with their wrongs.

Her glow of pleasure was so warm that she suddenly distrusted her own judgment, she looked up at him quickly to see if she had not mistaken his meaning, had not absurdly exaggerated the degree to which he ...

" Eve gazed about her in wonder; and then she hesitated a moment, as if distrusting her ears.

It is actually sinful for you to distrust Providence as you seem to do.

She was thinking to herself with the reckless bravado of youth, "Well, since he insists, I'll give him some ground for distrusting my character!" Arnold suddenly emitted a great puff of smoke and a great shout of "Help!

Shall we distrust the God of Heaven? He every doubt and fear will quell; By him the captive's chains are riven So let us loud the chorus swell!

" "I think my father deceived himself as well as my mother; for there is a strange incoherence and a want of distinctness in some of his letters, that caused feelings, keen as mine naturally were on such a subject, to distrust his affection from the first.

I wondered how I could have distrusted my own strength to meet her look.

Still he would make sudden and short pauses, and again rivet his gaze on the point of the compass whence the blasts came sweeping across the waste of waters; as though he distrusted the weather, and would fain cause his keen glance to penetrate the gloom of night, in order to relieve some painful doubts.

Our mistakes always eventually resolve themselves into distrusting the law of growth.

I might distrust my own opinion, or my own knowledge; but others, with opportunities equal to my own, have come to the same conclusion.

" "They regard the stranger as if they saw reason to distrust the wisdom of letting him approach so near.

I somehow distrusted the fellow.

When this author presumes to speak of the universe, I would advise him a little to distrust his own faculties, however large and comprehensive.

They will distrust every appearance of our zeal for the house of Austria, and imagine that we intend only an hypocritical assistance, and that our generals, our ambassadors, and our admirals, have, in reality, the same orders.

Your military preparations, evident to every observant visitor, have long caused us to distrust your Government and to consider your country a menace to the world's peace.

Will you take another drink?" "No, thanks; I've had enough," said Kit, who distrusted Olsen.

Strongly anti-Whig, Coningsby distrusted the Conservative party, and looked for a new party of men who shared his youthful convictions and high political principles.

That Gino trifled with her as to his true errand needed no confirmation, since a servant of the Duke of Sant' Agata was not likely to need a disguise to search a priest; but she knew his zeal for her personal welfare too well to distrust his faith in a matter that concerned her own safety.

He tells us, that, "besides the reasons already given for distrusting the correctness of Spanish statements, there is another, more secret in character, but not less potent than all combinedfear of incurring the displeasure of that tribunal which punished unbelief with fire, torture, and confiscation."

A more dramatic opposition than the one which ensued between the Heracliteans and the Eleatics can scarcely be imaginedboth schools claiming a monopoly of reason and truth, both distrusting the senses, and each charging the other with illusion.

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