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One letter sums up the ideal womanhood in these elements: "Trustfulness, hopefulness, joyfulness, peacefulness."

From Girls: Faults and Ideals A Familiar Talk, with Quotations from Letters by Miller, J. R. (James Russell)

Such tragic encounters do finally lift the soul into the region of Fearlessness, or into the still higher condition of Trustfulness, but such an education—like that of Godliness—requires line upon line, precept upon precept.

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Trustfulness is as much a part of man’s constitution, as reasoning or any other intellectual process. 

From Thoughts on a Revelation by Jerram, S. J. (Samuel John)

Nature never contemplated such a compact as that the blood at seventy should circulate as at thirty, and that the case-hardened, world-worn man should have a revival of Hope, Trustfulness, and Self-delusion.

From Luttrell Of Arran Complete by Lever, Charles James

Trustfulness formed a prominent part of her character, and her confidence in her Sam was unbounded.

From Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)