Suspicious

Examples

• How cheerful, how animated, how suspicious, how busy their imaginations all are! Jane Austen. Emma.
• I pointed out to him that the circumstances were after all suspicious--they were suspicious. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Here and there, the set of the current had worn down the bank into a little creek, and we were all suspicious of such places, and eyed them nervously. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Let's have a look at it,' said the suspicious chief. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Even after I became suspicious, I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind old clergyman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Coming on the top of such a damning series of events, it was at least a most suspicious remark. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Personal initiative and individual genius are poorly regarded: many socialists are suspicious of originality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• It was the face of an elderly woman, brown, rugged, and healthy, with nothing dishonest or suspicious in the look of it. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When it don't go astray for a long time, they get suspicious and throttle it anyhow, because they think it is hatching deviltry. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• However, in this case, if suspicious questions were asked, the answer was not hard to find. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am not suspicious. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Lucy here looked up; but Elinor was careful in guarding her countenance from every expression that could give her words a suspicious tendency. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• His difficulty was increased by Mr. Smallweed's being deaf as well as suspicious and watching his face with the closest attention. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Suspicious,' said James Harthouse, 'certainly. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• The jury looked suspicious, and Mr. Serjeant Buzfuz smiled as he sat down. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I observe three suspicious appearances in that young lady. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• We have remarked lately, Alfred, that the old man is turning very suspicious and distrustful. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If there isn't--as things are in this house--the hiding is a highly suspicious circumstance, and it will be my painful duty to act on it accordingly. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• For a moment it had a suspicious look of suicide, arranged to counterfeit accident. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I am a wily Italian and a suspicious Italian. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• You have never known anything in his behaviour towards Mrs. Bardell, or any other female, in the least degree suspicious? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• We Italians are all wily and suspicious by nature, in the estimation of the good John Bull. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• His eyes were set very deep in his head, and were disagreeably sharp and suspicious. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• But the type were destroyed, and the partners were afraid to make new ones, lest the suspicious public should spy upon them and learn their secret. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Here was Alexander in many ways gifted above any man of his time, and he was vain, suspicious, and passionate, with a mind set awry by his mother. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have had her before me all this time, finding no pleasure in anything but keeping me as miserable, suspicious, and tormenting as herself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If the guards were watching I was a less suspicious object standing beside the track. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• There was nothing suspicious then, I suppose? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He looked suspicious and confused--his ruddy cheeks were deeply flushed--and his first words, when he spoke, were quite unintelligible to me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• When the pursuit of our own interests causes us to become objects of inquiry to ourselves, we are naturally suspicious of what we don't know. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.

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