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Sentences starting with confidence

Confidence dies, and universal suspicion reigns. [7]
Confidence in his own powers and the final triumph of his conviction had deserted him only occasionally, and for a few brief hours. [10]
Confidence in our cause has declined. [11]
Confidence at home and abroad was the foundation of prosperity, not alone of the Nuremberg merchant but of trade in general. [10]
Confidence is like a lute-string, giving forth sweet sounds in its perfection; there are none so discordant as when it snaps. [9]

Sentences ending with confidence

I am not your inquisitor, but your bishop and your friend, and I am asking for your confidence. [9]
She has played your game handsomely--I've been in her confidence. [11]
Take me into your confidence. [6]
He's wild about you, and so is Somers they have both told me so in confidence. [9]
And she forbade you too, Malfalconnet, to give me your confidence? [10]
I might tell you more, my lad, were it not a breach of confidence. [9]
Did she take you into her confidence? [10]
That Ault would wreck the market, if he could and it was to his advantage, no one doubted; but still he had a quality that begot confidence. [4]
She inspires me with confidence. [9]
Justinus and his wife were Melchites, and he knew that both these friends--for whom he had a particular regard--would be enchanted with his scheme if he took them into his confidence. [10]

Short sentences using confidence

German confidence remains unshaken!! [5]
No confidence was there. [9]
But I hadn't no confidence. [5]
My confidence left me. [5]
No confidence in me! [2]
Louise told Laura in confidence. [5]
Trixton Brent inspired confidence. [9]
You don't lack confidence, certainly. [11]
Intellect, confidence in, 134. [6]
It undermines confidence. [5]

Sentences containing confidence two or more times

Under the Hohenstaufen rule their upright ancestors had so strengthened this confidence that wherever he went the Nuremberg merchant received respect and confidence above many--perhaps all others. [10]
To give confidence outside is to destroy the mutual confidence upon which the relation rests, and though interference may patch up livable compromises, the bloom of love and the joy of life are not in them. [4]
He pretends to no religious helps, no supernatural aids, but thinks there is something in his make-up which inspires the confidence of his patients, and that it is this confidence which does the work, and not some mysterious power issuing from himself. [5]
He pretends to no religious helps, no supernatural aids, but thinks there is something in his make-up which inspires the confidence of his patients, and that it is this confidence which does the work and not some mysterious power issuing from himself. [5]
My confidence in her human-beingship is getting shaken, my confidence in her godship is stiffening. [5]

More example sentences with the word confidence in them

An oracle deceived your father and plunged him into ruin, but the oracle is miraculous, and so you too, in perfect confidence, allow it to rob you of happiness! [10]
I cannot offer you great wealth, but I say with confidence that I can offer you something better, something surer. [9]
He might be wrong, but his words carried the evidence of his own serene, unshaken confidence that the spirit of all truth was with him. [6]
Because he has written his chiefs and asked with high confidence for an answer that will confound these questioners--and the chiefs did not reply. [5]
How gladly she would have gone among these blinded mortals and exhorted them to obey with fresh faith and confidence the command of the Lord and of her brother. [10]
When we had worked our way through their reserves and gotten their confidence, we found that they secretly harbored French hearts in their bodies. [5]
After a few words of confidence in the result of their project had been exchanged, they bade the grinning Quilp good night. [12]
While the minister withdrew to the writing table, the Emperor asked whether a trustworthy horseman could be had, since the Spaniard was disabled; and Reitzenstein, Beust, and Van der Kapellen, in whom implicit confidence could be placed, had been sent off that morning. [10]
The warm confidence with which Mary, the widow of the King of Hungary, who fell in the Turkish war, gazed into Quijada's finely modelled, slightly bronzed countenance proved that she knew how to estimate his worth aright. [10]
The quiet confidence with which he spoke aroused, suddenly, a twinge of antagonism. [9]
Barode Barouche fought with vigour, but from the going of Luzanne Larue, there passed from him the confidence he had felt since the first day of Carnac's candidature. [11]
He did so with sincere confidence in his little ally's adroitness and fidelity. [10]
Silas Peckham reckoned with perfect confidence on his Trustees, who had always said what he told them to, and done what he wanted. [6]
Eva's cheeks flushed with joy and pride as she heard how nobly her lover had justified the confidence of his imperial patron. [10]
He may speak with confidence before me. [10]
He stepped forward with all of his old confidence, and did not regard a farthing my cold stare. [9]
Miles sprang forward, with a happy confidence, to meet her, but she checked him with a hardly perceptible gesture, and he stopped where he was. [5]
I do not wish to say anything as to who shall be the Republican candidate for the Legislature in your district, further than that I have full confidence in Dr. [7]
As to my wisdom in conducting affairs so as to tend to the preservation of the Union, I fear too great confidence may have been placed in me. [7]
As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men. [2]
But now the wind of rumour has swept away his beautiful confidence also. [10]
Come when you will, and call me your mother with the same perfect confidence with which I, from my whole heart, name you my daughter. [10]
The old man will take me into his confidence early to-morrow morning. [10]
The Minorite Ignatius, whom Father Benedictus had sent after him that he might finish the work which the latter had begun, was a man who lacked neither intellect nor eloquence; but he did not possess the fiery enthusiasm and aristocratic confidence of the dead man. [10]
Middendorf attracted those who saw, Langethal those who heard him, and the confidence he inspired was even more lasting than that aroused by Middendorf. [10]
Here the tears which so easily rose to his eyes began to flow, and, seeing that Melissa's tender heart was moved by his sorrow, he gained confidence, and reproached his daughter for having kindled Caracalla's love, by her radiant eyes--so like her mother's! [10]
When the public which has been present reads the inaccurate report, it loses confidence in the newspaper. [4]
The letter itself, which for the first time broke the guarded seclusion of Irving's heart, is evidence of the tender confidence that existed between him and this family. [4]
Yesterday these two were strangers--to-day it was plain to be seen they were lovers, and lovers who had reached a point of confidence and revelation. [11]
And great as were his admitted abilities, he had never inspired confidence. [4]
The further we went the worse the roads were, and yet when my companions turned at the city-gate to ride homewards again, a strange, fierce confidence came upon me. [10]
Yet as time went on he gained confidence. [11]
We know how we stand towards each other and can count on each other with glad and perfect confidence, thanking the Almighty for having opened out a new life to us. [10]
It wasn't that we didn't believe in you--but we didn't have all the threads in our hands, and--for reasons which I think I can understand--you didn't take us into your confidence. [9]
I fear, if we could get, we could not safely take more than one such man--that is, not more than one who opposed us in the election--the danger being to lose the confidence of our own friends. [7]
Now her confidence was, as it were, confirmed by letter and seal, and this made her happy. [10]
In her heart was working the consciousness that she had been singled out as worthy to share the confidence of a man in his most secret ambitions and aspirations, in the dreams of youth which seemed to her so noble. [4]
Again sometimes I was very right indeed, and that deepened my confidence in myself. [11]
For herself, she was to sleep in Mrs Jarley's own travelling-carriage, as a signal mark of that lady's favour and confidence. [12]
His chief object was to inspire the Arab with confidence, since he was probably the only man outside Selamlik's palace who knew the thing as yet. [11]
Fate, she said, was just, and if it were true that confidence of recovery helped the physician, Doctor Bontius would have an easy task with her. [10]
Regret, of course, was expressed that the second will had never been executed, but with this regret was the confidence that the widow would carry out, eventually, Henderson's plans. [4]
Whatever he disclosed was always in confidence, so that he had the reputation of being as discreet as he was knowing. [4]
He says: "It was a confidence game. [5]
Already an imprudent violation of his extreme sense of the dignity of majesty, or of the confidence which he bestowed upon her, might become fatal to it. [10]
This was the very Proculejus whom the dying Antony had recommended to the woman he loved as worthy of her confidence. [10]
He had been very deferential to Miss Silence, and had wound himself into the confidence of Miss Badlam. [6]
To take it up, Mr Richard, sir, would imply a doubt of you; and in you, sir, I have unlimited confidence. [12]
He had given up hope of winning her heart or confidence by storm, and had followed his finer and better instincts-- had come to the point where he made no claims, and even in his own mind stood upon no rights. [11]
The feast lasted until early morning, but toward noon Hermon again appeared in his uncle's house, and met Daphne full of joyous confidence, as if he were completely transformed. [10]
With confidence he unreeled the dark line out to the end. [11]
Now, old man, unless you have great confidence in Mr. X's judgment, you ought to make him submit his article to you before he prints it. [5]
However, as it turns out, our confidence is abused, our hopes are misplaced. [5]
I took the trouble to write some months ago to two friends in Paris, in whom I could place confidence, for information upon the subject. [3]
Then, he remembered, too, to what a position he had risen through that master's confidence in him. [10]
If you have tolerable confidence that you can successfully contend with the Merrimac without the help of the Galena and two accompanying gunboats, send the Galena and two gunboats up the James River at once. [7]
A story is told of a metropolitan journal, which illustrates another difficulty the public has in keeping up its confidence in newspaper infallibility. [4]
I give her to you as an old warrior gives his sword, his best possession, to his stalwart son:--he gives it gladly and with confidence. [10]
So he set to work again straight off next day; and with high confidence, too, intimating with brutal cheerfulness that he should succeed this time. [5]
You may trust to what I say, no power shall tempt me to betray confidence. [5]
Some attributed it to want of confidence, others to the tariff, others to the action of this or that political party, others to over-production, others to silver, others to the action of English capitalists in withdrawing. [4]
He would begin to tell with great animation something which he seemed to think was wonderful; then lose confidence, and after an apparently absent-minded pause add an incongruous remark in a soliloquizing way; and that was the remark intended to explode the mine--and it did. [5]
If we were to take him into our confidence now, he would spoil all. [10]
I came here to St. John's full of hope and confidence, gradually to lose both, gradually to realise that there was something wrong with me, that in spite of all my efforts I was unable to make any headway in the right direction. [9]
Do you mean to say--" "Gentlemen," says the young man, very solemn, "I will reveal it to you, for I feel I may have confidence in you. [5]
I beg leave to say that my resignation is not sent in in any spirit of insubordination, but, as I before said, simply to relieve you from any embarrassment in changing commanders where lack of confidence may have rendered it necessary. [7]
Gradually she began to realize, however, that her resentment of the lack of confidence of her husband was by no means the only cause of the feeling that took possession of and overwhelmed her. [9]
Yet I yield to public opinion, when I proceed to make such a balance; and I do it with the utmost confidence in figures. [4]
He does it to make believe the game's his, and to destroy my confidence. [11]
I want you to keep faith with your old friend who doesn't care what the rest of the world thinks, but who wants your confidence. [11]
I begged him to give me back his love and confidence, and, if I must for evermore be parted from you, to let me be with him, not to put me away into a convent. [11]
Seeing us hesitate to follow up our advantage, our men will wonder, doubt, lose confidence, and the English will wonder, gather courage, and be bold again. [5]
I cannot bear to doubt my friends, and trustfulness is so dear, so essential to me, that I must indulge in it even if my confidence results in my being deceived. [10]
I am sorry to destroy the confidence of your youth, but whoever grows grey, with his eyes open, will meet persons who rejoice, nay to whom it is a necessity to injure others. [10]
He strove hard to become their friend, and that of the men; to win their confidence, and with a considerable measure of success. [9]
And here we three meet again as exiles on one pretext or another, and you will notice that while we are absent there is a pleasing tranquillity in America--a building up of public confidence. [5]
I will say three hundred, and say it with confidence. [5]
He said: "I thought you were worthy of confidence. [5]
I have often thought since that that march of the volunteer company to join Clark at the Falls of the Ohio was a superb example of confidence in one man, and scarce to be equalled in history. [9]
Afterwards I often thought simultaneously of her and Nenny, yet they were totally unlike in character, having nothing in common save their steadfast faith and the power of looking with happy confidence beyond this life into death. [10]
It seemed as though the desert wind had buried all their courage and confidence in the dust it swept before it. [10]
The stranger gave those people his confidence, and they dishonorably treated him in return. [5]
Euryale also feared this, and Melissa realized what filled them with anxiety; yet she by no means shared the feeling, and the happy confidence with which she tried to comfort her old friends, at the same time pacified and alarmed them. [10]
The letters of this summer (1862) most of them bear evidence of waning confidence in mining as a source of fortune--the miner has now little faith in his own judgment, and none at all in that of his brother, who was without practical experience. [5]
But in taking this step the Government does not in the least reflect upon your efficiency or patriotism; on the contrary, have the fullest confidence in your ability to perform any duty required of you. [7]
But there was this difference between the two: there was a confidence that Mrs. Laflamme would never drive over the edge, whereas no one could tell what sheer Carmen might not suddenly take. [4]
He had held this army cheap before, but his pride and confidence in it knew no limits now. [5]
I do not think I am betraying his confidence when I say that he is impressed with your ability, and that he liked your manner the only time he ever talked to you. [9]
Then we took things leisurely and comfortably, jumping tolerably wide and probably bottomless chasms, and threading our way through picturesque lava upheavals with considerable confidence. [5]
With joyous confidence they marched forward and, during the journey through the cool night, Ephraim and Nun described to Joshua how they had found Kasana and how she had died. [10]
You must in these next months try to lead the priesthood in the temple of Hatasu, and in that post to win back my confidence which you have thrown away. [10]
The effect which these doctrines have upon the confidence reposed in the profession is a matter of opinion. [3]
He set himself, therefore, to win the confidence of Greenock and the crew, and he began discipline at once. [11]
In this case there is but one person in whom he has full confidence, and who is also in a position to tell him the exact truth. [10]
They show for themselves what they are, and we can with tranquil confidence leave the world to ennoble them with a title of its own choosing. [5]
Now they stretched themselves out on their elbows and began to puff, charily, and with slender confidence. [5]
You yourself took them into your confidence, and we will consult together how the serpent's head is to be crushed. [10]
I believe that their confidence in the authenticity of Mrs. Eddy's inspirations is so limitless and so firmly established that no change, however violent, which she might make in a Bible text could disturb their composure or provoke from them a protest. [5]
The heart of the whole country yearns toward the beleaguered city with intense solicitude, yet with hopes amounting to confidence. [7]
His impulsiveness opened the way for some confidence from her, and before the affair was arranged she was enjoying in her quality of clerical widow the balm of the Virginians' reverent sympathy. [8]

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