Confiding

Examples

• But they have known me much longer than you have, and the confiding eye of affection is not the distrustful eye of business. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Reliant on Night, confiding in Solitude, I kept my tears sealed, my sobs chained, no longer; they heaved my heart; they tore their way. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He was confiding, good-natured, unsophisticated, companionable; but he was not a man to set the river on fire. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My husband, who is not over-confiding, ingenuous, or inexperienced, sees this plain thing no more than Mr Twemlow does--because there is no proof! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Sometimes I thought of confiding in Richard, but was deterred by the possibility of his fighting Mr. Guppy and giving him black eyes. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Then Birkin lifted his fingers and touched the boy's round, confiding cheek, with a faint touch of love. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Perdita, even where she loved, was reserved and timid; Idris was frank and confiding. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• But, the confiding young man proceeded to heap coals of fire on his sensitive head. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had secretly interposed against this confiding young man, for no better real reason than because the young man's ways were not his ways. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Her sentiments towards him were compounded of all that was respectful, grateful, confiding, and tender. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Anxious to appear friendly and at her ease, she put out her hand with a confiding gesture, and said gratefully. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I hope to find good reason for confiding the new hospital to his management. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Will you oblige me by confiding it? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• So that while the eleventh century was a century of ignorant and confiding men, the thirteenth was an age of knowing and disillusioned men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The confiding young man besought him to state his case. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Rose also explained her reasons for not confiding in her friend Mr. Losberne in the first instance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Confiding old boy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Confiding in you at all, on the faith of the interest you profess for him, I will not do so by halves. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• He added in his mind, 'And you speak to him with the most confiding eyes I ever saw, and the most earnest voice (though so quiet) I ever heard. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• She was quite confiding with me, and I loved her almost as soon as I spoke to her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Gentlemen, is the happiness of a sensitive and confiding female to be trifled away, by such shallow artifices as these? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It seemed to her as if strength poured into her in electric streams, from every gentle touch and movement of the sleeping, confiding child. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The letter went very soon, however, and was promptly answered, for Amy was homesick, and confessed it in the most delightfully confiding manner. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They are not so wild and handsome, but they seem happy, confiding little things. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Peace of mind and happiness of confiding females,' murmured Mr. Winkle, with an air of abstraction. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• There was something about his whole air self-respecting and dignified, yet united with a confiding and humble simplicity. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• But these confiding people believe in that piece of wood unhesitatingly. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Edited by Kitty