trustiness

Example Sentences

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This, indeed, was the saddest feature in the whole matter—the total want of all gratitude, reliance, trustiness, or affection between a “witch” and her friends.

From Witch Stories by Linton, E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn)

Did not that crafty villain Langston utter some sort of warning which I spurned, knowing the Bridgefield trustiness and good faith?

From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The commandant in Trondhiem has ever given me a name for trustiness.

From Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat by Ibsen, Henrik

—And in the Resurrectio Pilate rewards the gaoler for his trustiness with the Cornish manors of 'Fekenal, Carvenow and Merthyn,' and promises the soldiers by the Sepulchre 'the plain of Dansotha and Barrow Heath.'

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Our womankind are prone to a sort of helpless intimacy with those who serve them; the ladies had an instinctive perception of Lemuel's trustiness, and readily gave him their confidence and much of their history.

From The Minister's Charge by Howells, William Dean