Nor did I tell him that the three life insurance companies which had foolishly and trustingly accepted me as a risk merely on the strength of a good constitution were making frantic efforts to compromise on the policies.

she added: and she raised her glistening eyes to heaven, and gazed, hopefully and trustingly, on one bright star that shone upon her between the summits of the lofty trees.

They looked back to send a voiceless farewell, the child holding trustingly to the boy's hand.

I have been possessed (I use the word advisedly, for I fear that most persons in England still consider it a case of possession) with the idea that it is possible to maintain on this soil of North America, and in the face of Republican America, British connection and British institutions, if you give the latter freely and trustingly.

Her eyes were trustingly turned upon him; her soft hand grasped his arm.

But father thinks it fine and a pleasure to see little Leopoldine coming up so trustingly to him already; he talks to her, and shows her how to walk nicely over the fields, and not get her shoes full of earth.

When folk came trustingly to him and asked for credit, if he were to say "No," they might take it amiss, it might seem as if he were not the noble fellow they had thought, after all.

Sometimes when I get so angry with her that I feel as though I could almost shake the life out of her, the thought of her dying mother comes back to me and it seems to me as if I could see her eyes looking so wistfully on the child and turning so trustingly to me and saying, 'Mother, when I am gone won't you take care of Annette, and try to keep her with you?'

We meet our old friend Tom Brown once more, and commit ourselves trustingly to the same easy current of narrative and incident which was so delightful in the story of his Rugby adventures.

"Good-by," Sterry said in a voice just low enough to reach the dear one, as he pressed the delicate hand which rested so trustingly in his own.

" She looked him in the eyes trustingly and he blinked a little.

A moment more and he had blasted that pure ear with forbidden words of passion; and even now he remembered, with horror, the look of grave and troubled surprise in those confiding eyes, that had always looked up to him trustingly, as to God.

Drought and early frost had diminished this; and those who came in from the East came all too trustingly with empty meal-sacks.

She led her little boy, by the hand, who trustingly walked by her side.

" The dear girl looked at me shyly but trustingly, and said, with indescribable sweetness: "I will go with great pleasure.

I confess that I did not think of the race so much as of the dear little hand that rested so trustingly in mine.

The bright home-like room, the lovely face turned so trustingly to his; these were the things which made that fair vision of the future that haunted him so often now.

Truth to tell, he understood very little beyond thisthat the friar had been before him once more, and that he could but follow as a child trustingly.

We seemed like children playing at being tramps, but I felt a very lively affection for these strange wanderers who had come so trustingly to my little home under the bridge.

It is only in Nature, who is rich enough to nourish and give to all those who trustingly cast themselves on her bosomonly in Nature, and the privacy of country life, that we can find rest and peace.

Had he been, he wondered, a confiding fool, to accept so trustingly Chev Sherwood's suggestion that he spend a part of his leave, at least, at Bishopsthorpe, where Chev's people lived?

Any one could see that they loved each other, and that, if they were not married, they were engagedfor her little hand was entwined most trustingly about his muscular arm, and she leaned toward him with that gentle inclination which seems to be a magnetism of the heart.

Every thing in which he had so long and so trustingly confided, fell to pieces, and shrivelled up in the flame of indignation.

She was more reserved, and her manner to the Viscount, when they chanced to meet, had led them trustingly to believe their commands on this head would be implicitly obeyed.

But when every action the last few years has proved to me, the words you repeated have indeed been the foundation of this self-conquest, I cannot but humbly, trustingly, think it will be an accepted offering on high.