" They were all silent for a moment, and I saw them eyeing Polete distrustfully.

" "Je l'espère," murmured the governess, as she reluctantly and distrustfully proceeded, glancing her eyes incessantly to the right and left.

The servants seemed undecided in the manner of performing the most ordinary duties; their looks wandered distrustfully from one to another, and when their half-frightened visitor entered the vestibule, though all arose, none advanced to meet her.

Slowly and distrustfully a dripping scarecrow of rags and bones rose from his hiding-place in the water, and then stopped suddenly, and seemed inclined to dash through the river; but Tregarva held him fast.

" The other looked distrustfully at him for a time, and then, as though suddenly fetching up resolution, he cried out: "Well, what then?

Isn't he kind?" Tulee, who listened rather distrustfully to praises bestowed on the master, replied that nobody could do anything too good for Missy Rosy.

Thackeray, after a boyhood spent in the best of English schools, with money, friends, and comforts of every kind, faces life timidly, distrustfully, and dislikes the literary work which makes him famous.

" "It will avail you little," rejoined Leonard, distrustfully.

The Corporal behind the counter blew away a pile of cigarette ash and regarded me distrustfully.

With all these difficulties constantly before them, who can wonder that a kind-hearted planter, while gazing on the cheerful and happy faces of his well-fed and well-housed slaves, should look distrustfully at emancipation, and strive to justify to his conscience opposition to any plan, however gradual, which leads thereto.

Any woman, for instance, suspected of having cast behind her the Bible and all practices of devotion and the elementary articles of the common creed, would be distrustfully regarded even by those who wink at the same kind of mental boldness in men.

Nay, do not hesitate, Nor from me turn distrustfully away.

Baldy looked distrustfully at the sleeping Jemima, and thought approvingly of the absent Megofor Baldy was somewhat primitive in his ideas of the hitherto gentle sex.

Elise shook her head distrustfully.

Almost distrustfully, the czar held himself aloof from the ladies of the Faubourg St. Germain; and yet it was they who had decided the fate of France with him, and induced him to give his vote for the Bourbons; for until then it had remained undetermined whom the allies should call to the throne of France.

[106] The landing of the American troops for the attack on Manila was not actively opposed by the Filipinos, but it was narrowly and distrustfully watched.

Mr. Newton eyed them for a moment distrustfully, but Betsey had turned them out beautifullyall fair and delicate with transparent fat, and a brown stripe telling of the gridiron.

She examined him attentively, distrustfully, for a minute.

I told her of my life on the canaland she looked distrustfully at me.

While his horse drank he eyed the line distrustfully until he remembered his parting advice to Dill.

"If it only comes out right," she sighed distrustfully many times a day.

" "Why didn't she come herself instead of sending you?" asked the Colonel, distrustfully.