I do not for a moment doubt your sincerity, and believe you were yourself convinced of the truth of all you wrote.

It was to prove his sincerity in the Southern cause that he had wormed himself into the confidence of Wesley Boone's comrades, and in order that he might be chief agent in the frustration of the plan of escape.

Thus, a popular French onewhich many of our young people also practiseis for lovers to test the sincerity of their affections by taking a daisy and plucking its leaflets off one by one, saying, "Does he love me?a littlemuchpassionatelynot at all!"

" We cannot for a moment question the sincerity of purpose and honesty of intention of many of the leaders of modern scientific enlightenment, whatever we may think of the said crowd of vulgarisateursthose camp-followers who bring disgrace on every respectable cause.

Bad luck to him who lacks sincerity!

He that courts his mistress with Roman imagery deserves to lose her; for she may with good reason suspect his sincerity.'

This practice shows at least the sincerity of their hearts.

" His subsequent conduct evinced the sincerity of his promises.

As her features lost the sincerity of overwhelming fear, as the drooping lids failed for one moment to conceal a look of almost assured exultation in the dark eyes, my soul was suddenly and thoroughly revolted.

May He who knows the sincerity of my heart be pleased to strengthen my poor mind, for I feel almost overwhelmed with fears and difficulties.

But this would not have the effect of destroying the originality of the recital, or impugning either the sincerity of the nun, or that of the writer.

When Pauline said this, she attested her sincerity by making ready to accompany Adolphus at once to the prison, that they might run no risk of losing the situation by delay.

The emphasis he gave these words manifesting their sincerity, could not but give new charms to the person who spoke them: Louisa thought she might, without a blush, testify the sense she had of his generosity; but tho' what she said was perfectly obliging to him, yet she concluded with letting him know, there still was something that rendered the accomplishment of what he seemed to wish impossible.

There was no mistaking his astonishing sincerity, his painfully earnest endeavor to impart to her some rather unusual ideas in which he certainly believed.

"I must take off my hat," she said, "that rain will spot it," and so he had a chance of admiring the sincerity of her curlsnot that he had ever doubted them.

The marriage of true hearts for a quarter of a century has demonstrated the sincerity of the intention.

God in goodness to such ends hath pleased to lend us His great name; allowing us to cite Him for a witness, to have recourse to His bar, to engage His justice and power, whenever the case deserveth and requireth it, or when we cannot by other means well assure the sincerity of our meaning, or secure the constancy of our resolutions.

Why else should he mistrust Liane's sincerity in asserting that she had seen Popinot?

The party system destroys the sincerity of our political life, and introduces a dangerous dilettantism into the administration of public business.

Well, would that preclude sincerity?

finding himself unable to carry into effect the system of policy which he had engaged, at the Congress, to support in the Cabinet at Paris, in order to testify the sincerity of his engagement, promptly and most honourably resigned.

It was so much more natural that the child should remember the cake than an old woman, that I love his sincerity."

Let any one who wishes to gauge the sincerity of the impulse of the Stella sequence compare any of the poems in it with those in the romance.

The difference between God and man is too immense, to be frittered away by any such qualifications as that" "But, if I find it impossible to believe all you believe, Mary, surely you would not punish me for having the sincerity to tell you the truth, and the whole truth.

Steele shared his principles and honoured his sincerity.