trustiness

Example Sentences

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The very courage and trustiness of Fontenelle bore this stamp of discreet moderation.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 by Black, Robert

We have felt in Mr. Root's words the vibration of the American soul in all its intensity, in all its eloquence, in all its power, in all its trustiness.

From Latin America and the United States Addresses by Elihu Root by Bacon, Robert

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

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

By reason of his trustiness he was often set over the husbandmen at Lunenkerc at the time of our exile, and also at home, that is, at Mount St. Agnes. 

From The Chronicle of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes by Arthur, J. P.