trustiness

Example Sentences

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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

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

"As I told you, sir," said my friend, "I will pledge myself for his trustiness and probity."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various

How then may I not swear this that thou biddest me, and that with all joy and trustiness?

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William