"Suspiciousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... cannot be asserted that they are always alive though they are often very Welsh. They are sketched, with dialogue and description, after the manner of "The Bible in Spain," though being nearer home they had to be more modest in their peculiarities. He establishes Welsh enthusiasm, hospitality and suspiciousness, in a very friendly manner. The poet-innkeeper is an excellent sketch of a mild but by no means spiritless type. He is accompanied by a man with a bulging shoe who drinks ale and continually ejaculates: "The greatest poet in the world"; for example, when Borrow ...
— George Borrow - The Man and His Books • Edward Thomas
... all at the other end of the village!" he said half aloud, with a surprised suspiciousness. "Why was he going ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries • Francis Rolt-Wheeler
... adjusting himself to the turn of things, stood his rod up against the bush with the meticulous care of the true sportsman. "Where did you leave yours?" he asked, with a suspiciousness born of a deep knowledge ...
— More Jonathan Papers • Elisabeth Woodbridge
... papers about and finds some idler, on whose trustworthiness he by no means depends, seated in the midst of the unguarded secrets. The look was not flattering; but my conscience was so unreproachful that I laid all the blame upon the general suspiciousness of Vivian's character. ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... Andy. "Now, listen to me! We're nearly there, and I don't want to have to do any more talking, because the quieter we are now the sooner the wild folk will get over their first suspiciousness. Now, after we once get fixed, you won't move a muscle, not even if two or three mosquitoes alight on you at once and begin to ...
— Children of the Wild • Charles G. D. Roberts |
