The door, as before, was opened a little, and again the two eyes, with mistrustful glance, peeped out of the dark.
The rumour had it that Louis XII, resentful and mistrustful of the growth of Cesare's might, which tended to weaken France in Italy and became a menace to the French dominions, was come to make an end of him.
A battle of wits was toward between the Florentines' Secretary of State and the Duke of Valentinois, each mistrustful of the other.
Frank was mistrustful of everyone; he had recognised Louisa's hat and shawl in spite of the darkness, and thought that the mystery must have something to do with her, though how, he was unable to conjecture.
But the people who were approaching were doubtless mistrustful people, for this real silence and apparent solitude did not satisfy them.
D'Artagnan twisted his mustache like a man embarrassed with the confidence he is about to make and mistrustful of his confidant.
A good provincial, she had not the suspicious, mistrustfulqualities of Leopold.
Jim Driscoll--that pitiful nonentity, with his stout mistrustful commonplace wife!
Margaret Ferrers still considered him with her mistrustful eyes.
It was Isoult, mistrustful of Father Merlin’s subtlety, who came through the beech wood just when the grey light of the dawn was making the world look huge and vague and very mysterious.
For the moment a great silence held—the silence of a mistrustful crowd whose goodwill hangs upon the flash of an eye or the set of a head; but this lad with the crown rode out proudly.
Henriette, who was more mistrustful than her husband, hesitated when this list of guests was decided upon.
The assistants brought lamps; and some mistrustful artists, who, gloomy and silent, were watching the counting askance, drew nearer.
Thus the ruler of the world was enabled to change his abode according to his whim, or oftener, perhaps, to the workings of his subtle, mistrustful spirit.
So tender were his lamentations, that the kindly Mr Boffin was quite sorry for him, and almost felt mistrustful that in buying the house he had done him an irreparable injury.
I do not mean that Verissimo went about deploring the humble position of the artist and the true critic in Brazil; I am a mite mistrustful of self-analytic martyrs, of whom we are not exempt in these United States.
He is as wary of extremes, as mistrustful of superlatives, as José Dias in Dom Casmurro is fond of them.
I am more than mistrustful of many other feelings in me: they are not earnest enough; so far, not true enough--but this is all the flower of my life which you call forth and which lies at your feet.
What have I said or done, I, who am not apt to be mistrustful of anybody and should be a miraculous monster if I began with you!
Mistrustful people do not write as I write, surely!
Concordat of all interest in the confiscation of church property, aspiring to political alliance with the pope, and as mistrustful of popular forces as desirous of absolute power and devoted to Italy, he paused and then drew back.
It was more than a year now since the memorable day when he had bidden his aunt farewell in the villa at Fiesole, mistrustful of the web of intrigue drawing round his feet and Bianca, that dark-eyed, demure convent maiden.
Although little by little his bitterness had waned, it left him mistrustful both of himself and others, tinged with the easy cynicism of youth.
Let us not, however, commit any aggression, in view of our own interests, and of the disturbed and mistrustful spirit which prevails among the rest of the Hellenes.
There was something cold, mistrustful and mysterious in his appearance, yet he possessed unbounded power over his soldiers, whom he governed with severity and rewarded splendidly.
All these Solidungulae are identical in habits and character: social among themselves, they are fierce and mistrustful towards other animals.
And I think women are naturally conservative, sexually mistrustful of change—of new ideas.
But their temperaments and their associates were different, and they grew more and more mistrustful of each other.
This was quite enough to arouse a father, and especially one so mistrustful as Don Guillem.
Besides, I am not sorry to have an opportunity of showing my husband that vigilance is a less certain safeguard than virtue, and that, jealous and mistrustful as he is, I am more difficult to surprise than himself.
In fact, it was not the same face, not the same look as the evening before: sullen, mistrustful and obstinate.
He paused and looked at Arkady with a downcast and mistrustful face.
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