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  • Trustful and tenderhearted they are — none more; and if they be fickle and passionate, will not that very softness of temper, which makes them so easily led to evil, make them as easy to be led towards good?

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • OK, I'm more awake now: 1. One book that changed your life: Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence 2. One book that you have read more than once: The Story of a Soul by Ste.

    Book Meme Dymphna 2006

  • Trustful expectation in any one direction acts powerfully through the subconsciousness because it absorbs the whole mind, and thus competition with other ideas, either consciously or subconsciously, is largely excluded.

    Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing George Barton Cutten

  • Trustful in others, he surrendered his own will readily; but if he discovered that any one deceived him he flew into fits of passion.

    The Ruin of a Princess Cl 1912

  • Seriously, old man, wouldn't it be a revelation to the dear Trustful People if they could trepan a legislature and see what's going on under the skull of their Honorable Representatives?

    Tattlings of a Retired Politician 1904

  • Trustful self-abandonment to the joys that freely offer has entirely departed from both Epicurean and Stoic; and what each proposes is a way of rescue from the resultant dust-and-ashes state of mind.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • Trustful hope will do it; inspiring example will do it; love will do it, wrath will do it.

    The Varieties of Religious Experience 1902

  • Trustful as a boy who holds the world in hands of power unrelaxing,

    0 1148. Tuberose by Louis James Block. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900 1900

  • Trustful and fearless, he often comes within a few feet of you, and fixes you with his keen little eyes, which dart out innumerable interrogation points.

    Our Bird Comrades 1896

  • Trustful in this fine weather, we kept the house for kitchen and bedroom, and used the platform as our summer parlour.

    The Silverado Squatters 1884

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