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Example sentences for "could trust"

  • When I could trust myself to look back at him he was out of his bed, standing erect at the side of it.

  • One look at her face told me that I could trust her.

  • I was obliged to wait a moment before I could trust myself to speak to him.

  • There was no one of them that he could trust.

  • Yes; he said that he knew he could trust you to keep his secret.

  • But I trusted you--I knew I could trust you.

  • Although my last words to you were that I knew I could trust you?

  • We could trust you,--with the child and all the rest of it.

  • He himself believed that they had never been in Scotland since the death of the former Lady Eustace; but he was quite confident that he could trust altogether to the disposition made of them by the old Sir Florian.

  • Any man would be powerful to help, if there were any man whom she could trust.

  • He selected agents whom he could trust, or supposed he could trust, to enter the names for each district.

  • He directed Caius Volusenus, an officer whom he could trust, to take a galley and make a survey of the opposite coast, and he himself followed to Boulogne, where his vessels were waiting for him.

  • I saw you at The Larches, and thought I could trust you.

  • Now I know one who would give much--even a share in the profits of several factories--for the help of two men he could trust.

  • He told me you had promised to help us, and that he could trust you.

  • I then put men on it I could trust, and made the preliminary machinery.

  • This I did, and I sent two of my assistants, whom I could trust, down to this place to erect the plant; and started to sink shafts fifty feet deep all over the area.

  • I felt from the first that I could trust you.

  • Spelman's narration would be very important if we could trust it.

  • Oh, if I could only lay my hand on some man I could trust!

  • Knowing of no other professional person whom I could trust, I went boldly to the lawyer who had my interests in his charge, at that terrible past time in my life, which I have more reason than ever to shrink from thinking of now.

  • No,' I said, as soon as I could trust myself to speak.

  • He vented his passion in one or two profane oaths, with the childish addition that we were all a set of traitors, and that he had no one whom he could trust.

  • She would not ask him why he trusted her, nor why he thought he could trust her.

  • The one thing required by my plan was that I should get speech with her; that done, I could trust myself, and my new-found weapon, for the rest.

  • My fortune would have been made long ago, if I had found a prince with the control of a mint whom I could trust.

  • I know no one but Dubois whom I could trust to procure a good femme-de-chambre; only I do not want him to learn from her what you might not wish him to know.

  • After some pondering, I determined to write to the only honest man within reach whom we could trust to help us discreetly in our forlorn situation.

  • Mr. Gilmore is the old and tried friend of two generations of Fairlies, and we can trust him, as we could trust no one else.

  • He knew that he could trust my experience and my industry.

  • Immediately on taking the room he had written a note to his friend, Lord Dunton, who was practically the only man in the whole of London whom he considered he could trust.

  • He looked at the man sharply, and endeavoured to ascertain whether he could trust him.

  • I should not tell you all this," Westerham concluded, "unless I were absolutely certain that I could trust you.

  • I wouldn't send some folk I know to White, they might blur his vision; but I could trust him to you.

  • He knew he could trust me--and that knowledge is the best thing he bequeathed to me.

  • Brace shook the ashes from his pipe upon the hearth--he felt now that he could trust himself.

  • If I could trust Maka to load a gun, I would have a better chance, but if I could pick off two, or even one, that might stop the others and give me time to reload.

  • I have four black men, and I think I could trust them, as far as honesty goes, but they would not be enough to work the ship, and I could not think of any white men with whom I would trust my life and that gold in the same vessel.

  • If I had a friend I could trust," said Doctor Chord slowly, "I would give the papers to him and tell him to take good care of them.

  • However, there was no help for it, and I resolved to be up bright and early in the morning and engage a dozen men whom I could trust to stand by me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    could afford; could answer; could command; could confide; could count; could distinguish; could draw; could feel; could finde; could hold; could meet; could name; could not bring myself; could not tell what; could observe; could offer; could only have been; could produce misleading results; could show; could spare; could stop; could swear; could walk; financial success; mile west; other subjects