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His face showed plain tokens of anxiety, and his party-colored eyes looked hither and thither distrustfully, as he sauntered along the shore.
George looks distrustfully from the painted ceiling to the ground, from the ground to Mr.
The young lady answered this polite little speech in a whisper--with her round eyes fixed distrustfully on me while she spoke.
Lawrence, whence the sensitive soul looked so distrustfully forth, as ever ready to retire within, from the offences of a too rude, too uncongenial world.
The man looked up distrustfully. "If thou speakest the truth," said he, "I lose nothing when I lose my life.
Looking down and over distrustfully at the bear-skin rug between broom strokes.
The Crees & Blackfeet regard each other distrustfully & the latter, who are at present few in number, slept within the Fort a few nights ago, hearing of a large war party of Crees being near.
The woman in the shop, stern-lipped and pretty, was painting a tourist (a Swede, maybe), but eyed Elizabeth distrustfully, and finally told her to leave.
When we subscribe to this view of human nature, it only makes sense to see those around us as rivals and to treat them aggressively, fearfully, and distrustfully. In his new book, A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives, Thupten Jinpa tells us a different story about ourselves.
This nightclub scene, represented superficially and distrustfully, affords Larsen rich material that in Quicksand she revises and reauthorizes with the kind of authority that Wharton, as a white, Europeanized American, cannot access.
"We again wanted to take part in a run in a rural area, because it is something completely different to run through a metropolis like Paris with thousands of spectators than running quite alone across the country, distrustfully watched by sheep." The Conwy Half Marathon takes place on November 24 at noon.
They distrustfully stated that no training was given to them either before or after decentralization that marked a big question on planning system.
Indeed, to this day, many Filipinos regard the Chinese distrustfully, believing in, and perpetuating, the stereotype that the Chinese-like the Moros-are magulang, they'll pull a fast one on you at every turn.
(6.) It is important to note that not all WPAs carry the same clout in the world of composition studies and too many are as likely to be distrustfully constructed as--or feel like--disciplinary interlopers as insiders (Janangelo; Walcher, Janangelo and Roen).