The newly-arrived emigrant, distrustful of reports, or ignorant of the nature of the country, usually went out in search of a home.
If his industry raised him, he yet retained the sympathies of his early life: he remained distrustful of the rich, jealous of rank, and fond of the equality of human rights.
The distrustful man hath his heart in his eyes or in his hand; nothing is sure to him but what he sees, what he handles.
Mr. Goodchild was distrustfuland looked it, which made H.
I advise you to have Max here, because you seem to be of the distrustful nature of most damned fools and therefore must make your money in spite of yourself.
That's twenty cents more," said Hendrik to himself in the plain hearing of the hitherto distrustful bartender.
Distrustful of its expediency or propriety though General Johnston might have been, he deemed it his duty to await its result.
Under such conditions, the populace becomes profoundly distrustfulof the powers that be, and such distrust breeds bad citizens.
They are only dreaming in their little backwater, like the oysters of the lagoon, distrustful of extraneous matter and oblivious of the movement in a world of men beyond their shell.
She felt distrustful and sarcastic towards a mood so utterly subversive of that fetich 'Hardness,' to the unconscious worship of which she had been brought up.
The girl in grey was watching Thyme half timidly, as if she could not tell what to make of this young creature who looked so charming, and kept shooting such distrustful glances.
His eyes alone, grey and distrustful under their withered lids, were moving from the window to Emily, who in a wrapper was walking up and down, squeezing a rubber ball attached to a scent bottle.
Then, going to the bag, her compressed lips twitching, her gray eyes piercing into its clasp with a kind of distrustful optimism, she lifted the pincers and tweaked it hard.
He was also temperamentallydistrustful of anything too feminine; and Mrs. Tallents Smallpeace was undoubtedly extremely feminine.
She would not have been her distrustful self if she could have settled down in complacent security; and her mind was ever at stretch on that point, comparing past days and nights with the days and nights of the present.
He had never before felt so distrustful of the youthful foreigner.
Bianca's voice, which had the self-distrustful ring of modern music, suited her personality.
It is too late," he has said to himself--and has become self-distrustful and henceforth for ever useless.
Sir Gervaise cast a quick, distrustful glance at the other, anxious to read the motive for the question, at the same time that he did not wish to betray his own feelings; then he appeared to meditate on the answer.
The helpless condition of the servant had made the police distrustful of his asserted recognition of his master.
I have been sadly distrustful of myself, in this difficult and lamentable matter, ever since I found out my own ignorance of the strength of Laura's unhappy attachment.
Valiant he is, and to his valour temperate, Only distrustful of delays in Fortune; I love him dearly well.
Thou art ever dull and melancholy, Cousin, Distrustful of my hopes.
Ye are a fool then; Chearful and grateful takers, the gods love, And such as wait their pleasures with full hopes; The doubtful and distrustful man Heaven frowns at.
The latter was more distrustful even than Alba, and it was only with much apparent hesitation that he consented to lend aid to Norfolk’s plot.
The mercantile Venetians too, had justified Philip’s distrustful forebodings and had made a submissive peace with the Turk, who kept Cyprus, and Philip could not fight the Turks alone.
Perhaps it was only my fancy, but it seemed that the ugly gleam in his distrustful eyes had become sheepish, as if he was ashamed of something he did not understand.
Buck looked meaner and uglier and moredistrustful than ever.
Plenty was being showered upon them with so lavish and sudden a hand that they looked at it askance, distrustful of the unsought-for largess.
Those who were perched in the trees mostly held babies at their breasts, and were therefore instinctively distrustfulof the dangerous ground-levels.
He felt that she was different from any woman with whom he had ever stood on an equal footing; but, at the same time, the very possibility of establishing more or less intimate relations with her made him distrustful of his judgment.
Just on entering the scrub, we saw four emus walking gravely through a thicket of the little Severn tree, picking its bitter fruit, and throwing occasionally a wondering but distrustful glance at our approaching train.
I saw that under the mask of these half humorous innuendoes, this old seaman, as an insulated Quakerish Nantucketer, was full of his insular prejudices, and rather distrustful of all aliens, unless they hailed from Cape Cod or the Vineyard.
He laid down the knife, and fixed a searching and distrustful gaze upon the writer, who continued his task, unconscious of anything having happened.
Because--because I'm always distrustfulof a priest," rejoined Jonathan.
Less timid and distrustful than the oxeye, this species may be caught with greater ease.
This is the same as the preceding; but being less distrustful and cunning, it is easily enticed under a sieve placed before a barn in winter.
These birds are distrustful and suspicious, and, notwithstanding decoys and perching birds, it is very difficult to entice them within the decoy or area, and never many together.
