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Kings and people, mistrustful of each other, were upon their guard.
CAPTAIN PAULALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE
For the moment it was perhaps not wonderful that even so much excellence should obtain something of mistrustful admiration.
WILLIAM BLAKEALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE
Hence his 'timorous and mistrustful people' would not trust him any more in English hands.
THE LAND-WAR IN IRELAND (1870)JAMES GODKIN
The great banks remained hostile, and capitalists were mistrustful.
SERGE PANINE, COMPLETEGEORGES OHNET
It required daily visits for a week to make satisfactory impress on the Colonel's mistrustful fears, but the Cap'n was patient.
THE SKIPPER AND THE SKIPPEDHOLMAN DAY
Those who are most alive to the realities of living religion are most mistrustful of this congregating tendency.
GOD THE INVISIBLE KINGHERBERT GEORGE WELLS
Sofia's mistrustful eyes reconnoitred every corner of the room, and reckoned it empty.
RED MASQUERADELOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
In fact, it was not the same face, not the same look as the evening before: sullen, mistrustful and obstinate.
WHITE NIGHTS AND OTHER STORIESFYODOR DOSTOEVSKY
As he passed, he gave the turn-out a contemptuous and yet mistrustful glance and walked up the alley.
TWO BANKS OF THE SEINEFERNAND VANDREM
If there had been anybody hiding there, the cunning and mistrustful birds would never have alighted.
THE DELIGHT MAKERSADOLF BANDELIER

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