He twisted the collar about the dog's limp neck until he came to the worn plate, on which he could make out the faintly engraved letters K-a-z-a-n. He spelled the letters out one by one, and the look in his face was of one who still disbelieved what he had seen and heard.

Shelley asserted it, others disbelieved it: after much disputation the biographer supposes that, if not an imposture, it was a romance, and, if not a romance, at least a hallucination,Shelley, besides being wild in talk and wild in fancy, being by this time much addicted to laudanum-dosing.

"That she should for once get the worst of it, and be disbelieved to sharpen the sting!" "How do you know?" asked Enva.

As I have said, I did not doubt the honest belief of the keeper, but I doubted, and, in fact, disbelieved altogether in, the power of any man to identify the face of another when their eyes were close together, as he had no ordinary but a distorted view of the features.

Again and again she had told him that she was an agent of the English police, and again and again, as she intended, he had disbelieved her.

Like him, he disbelieved in the existence of anything immaterial, for even a human soul is formed out of matter.

I've disbelieved in fighting all my life.

But an excuse of the same kind will serve for the common liar, that he is known, and therefore disbelieved.

You are disbelieved because all men are false and perjured, and because they are inconstant, love is withheld.

It was extremely distasteful to a man who ran a quiet business on old-fashioned lines and disbelieved in advertisement.

Moreover, I impressed upon her that it was right that I should hear your story, not because I disbelieved hersI take it for granted the facts are correctly statedbut in the event of your being able to say something which would put a different complexion upon them.

If I disbelieved in Christianity, I should be the loudest blasphemer in Hyde Park.

She was a little alarmed by his white face and sunken eyes; but she accepted his reassurances without questionshe would have disbelieved anything which did not fit in with her plans.

Is the author himself to be disbelieved, that the extravagant praises bestowed upon him may be justified?

The fact is, that the operation was misunderstood, and disbelieved, as we know by the jocose manner in which it is alluded to by Butler.

I had always disbelieved in instinct and intuition and I disbelieved still.

I had always disbelieved in instinct and intuition and I disbelieved still.

"It was a merciful escape, and everybody said so except Sam Jones, and 'e asked so many questions that at last Henery Walker asked 'im outright if 'e disbelieved 'is word.

She neither believed nor disbelieved anything in particular.

She partly disbelieved her brother, and partly thought that circumstances could not be so bad as they were described.

So, when the affairs of the Company were wound up, Tiffles found himself the possessor of twenty thousand dollarsa sum whose existence in a concrete form he had always secretly disbelieved.

[S.] ] Socrates was a freethinker; for he disbelieved the gods of his country, and the common creeds about them, and declared his dislike when he heard men attribute "repentance, anger, and other passions to the gods, and talk of wars and battles in heaven, and of the gods getting women with child," and such like fabulous and blasphemous stones.

If so, he utterly disregarded it; and, indeed, so well did the negroes play their part, that the whole report was eventually disbelieved, while (as was afterwards proved) they went on to complete their secret organization, and hastened by a fortnight the appointed day of attack.

Having listened to and disbelieved the explanation of his absence, father leads the way into supper, but the little incident has taken the bloom off his suavity.

Without a trace of the Shadow in herself, Violet disbelieved its existence in others.