incredulity

• Now At sight of the hideous symbol, which he instantly recognises, his incredulity is at an end. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
• In spite of all the remarkable things that had happened to him he still had moments of incredulity, and in the midst of an Ohio wheatfield, with the click and clatter of the reapers in his ears and the dry scent of the wheat in his nostrils, to dream of buried gold was transcendent folly Gossip from the farmhouse reached him at the back door and he was alert for any sign that Putney Congdon meditated leaving. —  Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
• There was mingled with this feeling a sort of vague incredulity, and a disposition to ridicule the idea that they were actually endeavouring to wash gold out of the ground; but when Larry's panful began to diminish, and the black sand appeared, sparkling with unmistakeably-brilliant particles of reddish-yellow metal, they felt that the golden dream was in truth becoming a sober reality As the process proceeded, and the precious metal began to appear, Larry's feelings found vent in abrupt remarks Och! —  The Golden Dream Adventures in the Far West
• Georgie stared her incredulity, and Bonnie Connaught laughed Patty reminds me of the burglar who crawled out the back window with the silver, and then rang the front door-bell and handed it back What's the matter, Patty?" —  When Patty Went to College
• Down in the foc'sle he fared no better, the crew's honest tribute of amazement to his powers of untruthful narrative passing all bounds of decorum Their incredulity was a source of great grief to him. —  The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant

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