trustiness
Example Sentences
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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 William Dean Howells
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 E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
Was it her hair, her untidy hair, or the honesty of her eyes, or the strength and trustiness of her mouth?
From The Captives by Sir Hugh Walpole
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 Henrik Ibsen
—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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
