Brueck was right when he said that some of the Confutators were "purely partial, and altogethersuspicious characters.
To this he responded: Since the papal power was suspicious to us the matter rested with the Emperor and the German princes.
Mere senseless anger does not often last long, and before an hour had passed Paul began to feel those suspicious little thrusts of pain in the breast and midriff which warn us that we miss some one we love.
But to the end of time people will go on asking where Paul's brother is, and will look suspicious when he is mentioned.
The limbs are muscular, and, were it not for the suspiciousyet ferocious glare of the eye, he might pass for a handsome dog.
One medical gentleman thought that there were some suspicious appearances about the stomach, and another believed that there was congestion of the brain.
The writer of this account had occasion to operate on this poor fellow, who had been bitten under somewhat suspicious circumstances.
Two or three days may pass over, and there is not another suspicious circumstance about the animal; still he keeps him under quarantine, for long experience has taught him to listen to that warning.
No suspicious circumstance could be found about him.
In about a quarter of an hour after this I paid her another visit: the puppy could not now be found; but a suspicious appearance in the mother's eye betrayed at once that she had devoured it.
Advancing cautiously, she saw a bunch of tall grass wave in a suspicious manner.
Mr. Hicks had an alert, suspicious manner as if he feared that someone would jump forward and snatch something before he had given the signal.
He was a suspicious man to a certain extent as well as a careful one, and no one lingered at his window without becoming an object of interest from behind the tobacco-jars and penny numbers.
More she dared not say, for the suspicious eyes of Callicles were upon her, and she had to repress the emotion which agitated her frame.
There was something fatally suspicious in the rapidity with which every preparation was made.
It was certainly suspicious that on the eve of the conspiracy Seneca had returned from his Campanian retreat, and stopped at one of his villas only four miles from the city.
Everywhere he was looked upon with suspicious eyes.
To dissipate the too suspicious silence, I have occasionally made curious sounds, at which I am an adept.
But apart from her, several other persons were suspicious and inspired involuntary apprehension and uneasiness.
To Ivan Ilyitch this figure appeared suspicious in the extreme.
It’s not nearly as suspicious as yours,” Sandy retorted.
I still don’t think it was very smart of you to becomesuspicious just because you smelled film in that basket.
I searched the suspicious neighbourhood with the field-glass, where treachery seemed to lurk behind every projection.
Abdul Rasak took the woman in hand and offered to carry half her load to her tent, and so they jogged along the road far ahead, and freed us from her suspicious company.
There's a good deal that's suspicious about Hartmann.
As soon as he had turned I approached the policeman, and asked what the stranger wanted, explaining that he was a suspicious character whom I was following.
The place had certainly not been cleaned down for years, and no wonder they had been suspicious of the stability of that chimney which towered so high towards the murky sky.
We might send some one on some pretext into the fort; but these Russian rascals are grown suspicious of late, and our young men cannot now play them the tricks they were wont to do.
Their eyes have a characteristic look of alert, suspicious watchfulness.
Dubourg's reports became as suspicious as if his bills had been noted for dishonour.
If, therefore, there appeared light in the windows of the library this evening, it either could not be his, or he was observing a very secret and suspicious line of conduct.
For he was very certain that Marston Greyle would resent his presence in the village, and that Chatfield would be suspicious of it.
They'll have thrown out a deal of suspicioustalk about the Squire.
This path was quickly obscured by dwarf oaks and alder bushes, which completely roofed in the narrow valley, and about everything hung a suggestion of solitude that would have caused any timid or suspicious soul to have turned back.
The two looked at each other, a question in the eyes of each, and Copplestone knew that the trouble in the girl's eyes arose from inability to understand what was already a suspicious circumstance.
Evil may creep into our habits and circumstances in numberless ways, and hence the moment we perceive aught of a suspicious nature, it must be submitted to a calm, patient process of priestly investigation.
We should never sit down at ease so long as aught of a suspicious nature is making its appearance in the assembly.
If there is anything like monopoly the public and the workers are fully justified in being suspicious and examining the source from which high dividends are produced.
His suspicious and sordid nature made him prefer toil to rest; he would have liked to possess a hundred eyes to watch over everything that belonged to him.
Avarice is always suspicious and full of alarms, and Salabert grew more and more avaricious.
How happy should I be if I had not a gloomy and suspicious temper and the pride which devours my soul!
He enjoyed the reputation in the financial world of being a very cautious, or indeed suspicious man; thus his name as participator in a speculation was a guarantee of its security, and this was what Salabert required.
Was it not your plain duty to have informed me of any suspicious proceedings?
And the question arises, Should I have been justified in betraying—for that would have been the nature of the act—the suspicious, merely suspicious circumstances, which I observed during my involuntary comradeship with these men?
The pacha looked suspiciously at Mustapha, for he was of a suspicious nature; and Mustapha looked anything but innocent.
A suspicious man is always more suspicious at the beginning of the day.
He was a heavy man, with little suspicious eyes set close together.
The Montonero cast a stealthy and suspicious look on his companion, but the Frenchman was on his guard; his face was inexpressive as marble.
So I will," answered the Frenchman, placing on the ground the butt end of his gun, and leaning his two hands on the end of the barrel, as he cast a suspicious look around him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suspicious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
