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Sentences starting with belief

Belief was stamped upon it; not expectation or ambition, but faith and fidelity. [11]

Sentences ending with belief

The splendour of youth is its madness, and the splendour of that madness is its unconquerable belief. [11]
With that ingenuity which always accompanies jealousy, he tortured every circumstance of the last few weeks so as to make it square with this belief. [6]
In a thousand ways she was reminded, lest she drive it from her belief. [9]
A good post was procured for him, with a rapidity which took away his breath, by some of the gentlemen who had believed him guilty of the offence laid to his charge, and who had acted upon that belief. [12]
Now allow me to assure you that no word or intimation from that rebel army, or from any of the men controlling it, in relation to any peace compromise, has ever come to my knowledge or belief. [7]
Yes, he believed, though it seemed a thing beyond belief. [9]
Banks brought me the news that Lord Comyn was sitting up, and had been asking for me that day; that he was recovering beyond belief. [9]
A coronation without that would not have been a coronation at all, in my belief. [5]
But experience has shown that the character of these assertions is not sufficient to deter many, from examining their claims to belief. [3]
That you should save me--be so good and kind--want to make me happy--why, it's beyond belief. [13]

Short sentences using belief

This, her belief, remained uninjured. [10]
But belief is not proof. [5]

Sentences containing belief two or more times

My pain in telling you this now is all the greater because I realize your belief as to the sacredness of the tie--and it is not your fault that you did not instil that belief into me. [9]
The belief in spiritual agencies would easily pass into the belief in the existence of one or more gods. [1]
There was a belief that the Indian conjurors had some power over the elements, but not a well-regulated power, and in time the Indians came to a belief in the better effect of the invocations of the whites. [4]

More example sentences with the word belief in them

Of course, if you heard it, you know my belief is that the total climatic influences here are getting up a number of new patterns of humanity, some of which are not an improvement on the old model. [6]
It is his work if she cleaves to the religious belief of her people, if she who is a Hellene to the last drop of blood loves Egypt, and is ready to make any sacrifice for her independence and grandeur. [10]
And it was wonderful to see what these new ingenuities did for a time, and how each generation was deceived into the belief that its products would sail on forever. [4]
With strange hopes, with trembling fears, with mingled belief and doubt, wherever I have found myself I have sought with longing yet half-averted eyes for the "elect lady," as I have learned to call her, who was to lift the curse from my ruined life. [6]
He contented himself with the belief that the most vigorous natures are the most difficult to rouse. [11]
He who rejects with scorn the belief that the shape of his own canines, and their occasional great development in other men, are due to our early forefathers having been provided with these formidable weapons, will probably reveal, by sneering, the line of his descent. [1]
They confound belief with evidence, often trusting the first because it is expressed with energy, and slighting the latter because it is calm and unimpassioned. [3]
He was born with a most comfortable belief in himself and the knowledge that when he decided to become a domestic man he had simply, as the phrase is, to throw his handkerchief. [4]
How many persons who shudder at the sound of this word can tell the difference between that doctrine and their own professed belief in the omnipresence of the Deity? [6]
At the period when Emerson reached manhood, Unitarianism was the dominating form of belief in the more highly educated classes of both of the two great New England centres, the town of Boston and the University at Cambridge. [6]
The Magi, however, were not deceived; they shut themselves up in their palace, assembled an army in the Nisaean plain, promised the soldiers high pay, and used every effort to strengthen the belief of the people in Gaumata's disguise. [10]
This conclusion agrees well with the belief that the so-called moral sense is aboriginally derived from the social instincts, for both relate at first exclusively to the community. [1]
This higher education was offered to the mass that still lacked the rudiments of intellectual training, in the belief that education--the education of the moment, the education of superimposed information, can realize the theory of universal equality. [4]
The flames leapt up into the air and all the Persians fell on their knees and hid their faces, in the belief that the fire was now ascending to their great god and father. [10]
This was done under military protection, directed by me, in the belief, still sincerely entertained, that with such a nucleus around which to build we could get the State into position again sooner than otherwise. [7]
In general the trait of Speranski's mentality which struck Prince Andrew most was his absolute and unshakable belief in the power and authority of reason. [2]
The story is told of David Osgood, the shaggy-browed old minister of Medford, that he had expressed his belief that not more than one soul in two thousand would be saved. [6]
They stood close together in a great circle all around the rim of a massive low tower--waiting; stood as motionless as sculptured ornaments, and indeed almost deceived one into the belief that that was what they were. [5]
The fewer outworks to the citadel of belief, the fewer points there are to be threatened and endangered. [6]
I am disposed to take his denial as being like an answer in chancery, that he neither had any knowledge, information, or belief in the existence of such a conspiracy. [7]
This was done to strengthen the courtiers and the citizens of Ratisbon in the belief that Barbara owed his favour solely to her singing. [10]
His plan was to privately impress them with the belief that he was as good Anti-Nebraska as any one else--at least could be secured to be so by instructions, which could be easily passed. [7]
Another would have to own that he got his religious belief, not from his father, but from his mother. [6]
They were impossibilities to my reason, but to my heart they rang true; and so, while my reason doubted, my heart believed--believed, and held fast to the belief from that day. [5]
She had said to him in days long gone, that if she could ever speak to him across the Void, she would; and he had the fullest belief now that she had done so. [11]
Nefert still held to her immovable belief that her husband was faithful to his love for her, and the magic charm of a nature made beautiful by its perfect mastery over a deep and pure passion made itself felt in these sad and heavy days. [10]
The world seems to have become settled in the belief, long ago, that it is not possible for human genius to outdo this creation of da Vinci's. [5]
I should expect to find faith in humanity greater and not less than it is now, and I should not expect to find that Mr. Froude's mournful expectation had been realized, and that the belief in a life beyond the grave had been withdrawn. [4]
Constitution has more to do with belief than people think for. [6]
When that begins to blow, one feels the foundations of his belief breaking up. [4]
It is impossible to begin a story which must of necessity tax the powers of belief of readers unacquainted with the class of facts to which its central point of interest belongs without some words in the nature of preparation. [6]
It is bad to be a fatalist unless one has an incontrovertible belief in one's destiny,--which Hannah had not. [9]
In the mean time, the great stronghold of intellectual conservatism, traditional belief, has been assailed by facts which would have been indicted as blasphemy but a few generations ago. [3]
For the first time in his life his belief in the justice of the gods forsook him. [10]
For the first time he felt acutely that his choice of this new life might have been more a reaction from the past, a desire for expiation, than radical belief that this was the right and only thing for him to do. [11]
Here and there, through the history of these centuries, there have been those who have entered into this belief of their own privilege and duty, and have used the gift which they recognized. [5]
The thought flashed through his mind that he might not; but he trod it under foot; not through an inborn, primitive egotism like that of Lempriere, but through an innate arrogance, an unalterable belief that Fate was ever on his side. [11]
He has used this doctrine as a part of the machinery of his story without pledging his absolute belief in it to the extent to which it is asserted or implied. [6]
Whether or not this belief was justified will appear later. [5]
The man of thirty-nine beliefs holds the man of one belief a pauper; he is not going to give up thirty-eight of them for the sake of fraternizing with the other in the temple which bears on its front, "Deo erexit Voltaire. [6]
It was a thing beyond belief that one hour could have held such a store of agony. [9]
All the same, they are credulous, and entertain doubt and belief on the slightest evidence. [4]
For the ancients these questions were solved by a belief in the direct participation of the Deity in human affairs. [2]
The next day these friends who, notwithstanding the difference in their religious belief, had treated her more kindly than any one in Ratisbon, would hear this and condemn her. [10]
But at last these dark suggestions settled down into a belief that Jean took her chiefly for ballast; and thereafter she was familiarly called "Femme de Ballast. [11]
Even after all these ages, the belief, the hope would not down. [9]
Was not fatalism, then, the cheapest sort of belief in an unchangeable Somebody or Something, representing purpose and law and will? [11]
For the moment the world waited in the belief of the rising of new stars, and as suddenly realized that it had been deceived. [4]
He boldly took the whole responsibility for what happened, and his darkened mind found justification in the belief that among the hundreds of thousands who perished there were fewer Frenchmen than Hessians and Bavarians. [2]
When I reached the street I was wondering whether Gorse and Dickinson and the others, Grierson especially, could possibly have entertained the belief that I would turn traitor? [9]
See what was the state of belief in other matters among the most intelligent persons of the colonies, magistrates and clergymen. [3]
This belief in the sometime survival of the Roanoke colonists, and their amalgamation with the Indians, lingered long in colonial gossip. [4]
The belief of the scientific people is, that the mouth used to be at Baton Rouge, where the hills cease, and that the two hundred miles of land between there and the Gulf was built by the river. [5]
Though it be the prosperous capital of New England, it is a city of homes, and the dwellers of it have held stanchly to the belief of their forefathers that the home is the very foundation-rock of the nation. [9]
Suppose, for instance, the Medical Society should refuse to give us an opiate, or to set a broken limb, until we had signed our belief in a certain number of propositions,--of which we will say this is the first: I. [6]
But I have the highest belief that this is so. [7]
And, speaking generally, the evidence of dying men in favor of any belief is to be received with great caution. [6]
And corresponding to the event its justification appears in people's belief that this was necessary for the welfare of France, for liberty, and for equality. [2]
Suppose everybody on the East Side should become as industrious, as self-denying, as unselfish as Ruth Leigh, and yet without belief, without hope! [4]
That he despised the conventionalities of society, and was a sloven in his toilet, was firmly believed; and the belief endeared him to the hearts of the people. [4]
We profess constantly that we have no more inclination than belief in the power of the government to disturb it; yet we are driven constantly to defend ourselves from the assumption that we are warring upon the rights of the Sates. [7]
My belief is that they already know it; and when they choose, if ever, they can communicate with me unequivocally. [7]
My belief is that the permanent estimate of what a general does in the field is fixed by the "cloud of witnesses" who have been with him in the field, and that, relying on these, he who has the right needs not to fear. [7]
The old belief that rudiments have been created to complete the scheme of nature is here so far from holding good, that we have a complete inversion of the ordinary state of things in the family. [1]
That position was that I had been irreverent beyond belief, beyond imagination. [5]
It would seem that having rejected the belief of the ancients in man's subjection to the Deity and in a predetermined aim toward which nations are led, modern history should study not the manifestations of power but the causes that produce it. [2]
Do you know that every man has a religious belief peculiar to himself? [6]
I am sure that either the one or the other class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both. [7]
All that we term sin, sickness, and death is comprised in the belief of matter. [5]
I still clung tenaciously to the belief that there were no relationships wholly unaffected by worldly triumphs, and as Senator I should have strengthened my position. [9]
It recognizes and supports the belief that a series of cases may originate from a single primitive source which affects each new patient in turn; and especially from cases of Erysipelas. [3]
There was no such thing as belief that did not result in act. [9]
And they furthermore stated their belief that he was not dead, and instanced the strong circumstantial evidence of his own word that he was dead--and beseeched the coroner to delay the funeral as long as possible, which was done. [5]
If Jean Jacques started with faint doubt regarding anything, and allowed himself betimes the flush of a declaration of belief, there could be but one end. [11]
When it occurred, some important State elections were near at hand, and you were in evident glee with the belief that, by charging the blame upon us, you could get an advantage of us in those elections. [7]
For myself, I should prefer a physician of a sanguine temperament, who had a firm belief in himself and his methods. [6]
Always alert was she, solicitous beyond belief, scanning ever the dial of her watch to know when to give me brandy and physic; or reaching across to feel my temples for the fever. [9]
There were many shades of belief in the liberal churches. [6]
In the baptismal service the articles of belief are stated to be in the Apostles' Creed, but nowhere--in this Church is it defined how their ancient language is to be interpreted. [9]
Somebody must stand sentry at the outposts of belief, and it is a sentry's business, I believe, to challenge every one who comes near him, friend or foe. [6]
Their not being seen did not, however, prevent the growth of the belief in their existence. [4]
This, at least, seems to have been the confident belief of a faction in the state who have at heart the consolidation of certain lines of railroads. [9]
Temporarily they may seem to be in harmony, and may deceive themselves into the belief that they are at opposite poles equidistant from the equator, and certain to meet on that imaginary line in matrimonial bliss. [4]
William Cullen Bryant says of himself, "The Calvinistic system of divinity I adopted of course, as I heard nothing else taught from the pulpit, and supposed it to be the accepted belief of the religious world. [6]
I will not say that I have a full belief that hydrophobia--in some respects the most terrible of all diseases--is to be extirpated or rendered tractable by his method of treatment. [6]
Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is true, except that matter is unreal, simply a belief that has its beginning and ending. [5]
As Patsy Kernaghan said, he himself watched, and he paid the Chinaman to watch, in the vain belief that money would secure faithful service. [11]
He has a right to go before the community and try to convince them of this, but he has no right to attempt to impose upon any one the belief that these men themselves approved of his great principle. [7]
The desire to revisit this earth is, I think, based upon a belief, well-nigh universal, that the world is to make some progress, and that it will be more interesting in the future than it is now. [4]
And now, on reviewing the whole subject, how shall we account for the extraordinary prevalence of the belief in Perkinism among a portion of what is supposed to be the thinking part of the community? [3]
He said: "The result of my perlustration and perscontation of this isoperimetrical protuberance is a belief at it is one of those rare and wonderful creation left by the Mound Builders. [5]
She was a result of generations of training in the unexamined and unassailed belief that the law which permitted her to kill a subject when she chose was a perfectly right and righteous one. [5]
It made her resent his own sense of fatality, his own belief that he would be in darkness all his days. [11]
He refused to reopen the question of March's fitness with him; he said they, had gone into that thoroughly, but he recurred to it with Mrs. March, and confirmed her belief in his good sense on all points. [8]
No political or religious belief can make Burgess unhappy or the other man happy. [5]
The Illinois State Register, edited by Lanphier, then, as now, the central organ of both Harris and Douglas, continues to din the public ear with this assertion, without seeming to suspect that these assertions are at all lacking in title to belief. [7]
Long immunity has reenforced them in the belief that they have but one duty to pay dividends. [9]
How he, the recipient of that letter, was directly led to the belief that these must be the very wanderers for whom so much search had been made, and whom Heaven had directed to his brother's care. [12]
Dr. Hiltner, of Ratisbon, to whom, in spite of his heretical belief, she intrusted the legal business of the estate, acted wisely and promptly in her behalf. [10]
Happily, he is protected by an amount of belief in himself which shields him from many assailants who would torture a more sensitive nature. [6]

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