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Sentences starting with suspicion

Suspicion is slow to seize the complacent. [9]
Suspicion is nothing, talk is nothing, and the world forgets--" "Oh, I do not care for the world or its forgetting! [11]
Suspicion flamed up into conviction, now, and the town's pride in the purity of its one undiscredited important citizen began to dim down and flicker toward extinction. [5]
Suspicion had plainly gripped his soul overnight, and this, added to mortified vanity at having been duped, was sufficient for him to allow me to leave the inn unattended. [9]
Suspicion had been directed against the McMahons, but Joel Mazarine had declared that it was not the McMahons who had attacked him, although they were masked. [11]

Sentences ending with suspicion

Who would not wish that he were wrong in such a suspicion? [6]
He said that when it took a whole basketful of sesquipedalian adjectives to whoop up a thing of beauty, it was time for suspicion. [5]
The whole country was full of suspicion. [4]
If it is true that the man you charge is an infidel, how does that warrant suspicion? [11]
In his letter to her he had simply said that it were wiser not to write, since the acting postmistress, the Cure's sister, would note the exchange of letters, and this would arouse suspicion. [11]
But I cannot think our Scheherezade is one of that kind, and I am ashamed of myself for noting such a trifling coincidence as that which excited my suspicion. [6]
The result justified Smith's suspicion. [4]
And now, as she was working the beat biscuits to be baked that evening, Uncle Ben's eye rested on her with suspicion. [9]
That very hour she had heard again the story of the nude stone woman in the shed, and her heart was full of jealousy, fury, and suspicion. [11]
Melissa's sad cry of: "What terrible suspicion! [10]

Short sentences using suspicion

I begun to suspicion something. [5]
This may be mere suspicion. [7]
Folks don't suspicion it. [9]
A suspicion of it. [9]
The suspicion sickened her. [9]
Innocent beyond suspicion! [5]

More example sentences with the word suspicion in them

Since I saw you at Jacksonville, I have had no more suspicion of the Whigs of Morgan than of those of any other part of the district. [7]
How quickly suspicion would rest on a lass whose respectability was questioned! [10]
Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. [5]
To none--man nor woman--and I beseech you as urgently as friend or Caesar ever besought a favor--let the least suspicion of my arrival be known. [10]
But the Emperor, who until then had listened to De Soto' here interrupted him to confide the unfortunate suspicion which had been aroused in him the day before. [10]
Even Louis himself, who had had his moments of torture and suspicion when the appeal was read, was now in a kind of happy reaction. [11]
There were times when for months you forgot me; and then--then--" Suddenly a dreadful suspicion seized his brain. [11]
Dreams, to him, were matters for suspicion and distrust. [9]
That hired man was probably regarded with suspicion by the family to the end of his days, and if he had been accused of robbing, they would have believed him guilty. [4]
His first impression was one of admiration, but suspicion was quickly added. [11]
For him there was no outside world; no past, no Kathleen, no Billy; no suspicion, or infidelity, or unfaith; no fear of disaster; no terrors of the future. [11]
This night there was increased alertness, owing to the escape of Carbourd; and himself, if not more closely watched, was at least open to quick suspicion owing to his known friendship for Carbourd. [11]
A sharp suspicion was in her heart that somehow or other her father was responsible for this man's degradation and ruin. [11]
At first he was eyed with suspicion and disgust as he drove off to Mohair in his Hempstead cart, and was called many hard names. [9]
Our first emotion was deep, unutterable gratitude, our next was a foolish rage, born of the suspicion that possibly the hotel had been visible three-quarters of an hour while we sat there in those cold puddles quarreling. [5]
But I am very willing to confess a great jealousy of many agents, and I could almost wish to see the Materia Medica so classed as to call suspicion upon certain ones among them. [3]
His breathing was unnaturally heavy, Jen thought, but, no suspicion of foul play came to her mind yet. [11]
Confidence dies, and universal suspicion reigns. [7]
To have fallen under suspicion of heresy would have been the last thing Barbara expected, and she called it foolish, nay, ridiculous. [10]
For more than two months Cauchon had been raking and scraping everywhere for any odds and ends of evidence or suspicion or conjecture that might be usable against Joan, and carefully suppressing all evidence that came to hand in her favor. [5]
You have come to this country-town without suspicion, and you are moving in the midst of perils. [6]
It was hard to tell what were the principles controlling Tarboe--there was always an element of suspicion in his brown and brilliant eyes. [11]
Whatever suspicion attaches to Smith's relation of his own exploits, it must never be forgotten that he was a man of extraordinary executive ability, and had many good qualities to offset his vanity and impatience of restraint. [4]
I don't wish to seem to throw any suspicion on anybody's statements, because we are all liable to be mistaken. [5]
He listened eagerly, to see if anything were said which might show suspicion of his father. [11]
This induced him to reject as impossible the suspicion that she could have stooped to anything so unworthy. [10]
Then we turn to page 20 of the Autobiography and happen upon this passage, and that hasty suspicion stands rebuked: "I gained book-knowledge with far less labor than is usually requisite. [5]
It is pleasant to know we are disappointed, in that we never dreamed we might see portions of the actual Temple of Solomon, and yet experience no shadow of suspicion that they were a monkish humbug and a fraud. [5]
A smile came to his lips, as suspicion stole away ashamed, and he said: "This will not do. [11]
It was clear to everyone that the jury must return a verdict of wilful murder, and it was equally clear that the evidence was sufficient to fix suspicion upon Orlando, which must lead to his arrest. [11]
The suspicion began to dawn on Hodder that the Scotch man's ideals were as high as his own. [9]
Fairminded people declined to condemn her on mere suspicion, and so the injurious talk made no very damaging headway. [5]
Lacey was getting to close quarters with suspicion and allusion; but it was not his cue to resent them yet. [11]
The suspicion flashed through me that Mr. Allen had been sent to spy, but his very next words disarmed it. [9]
Quijada, with a throbbing heart, obeyed, but Geronimo had no suspicion of what awaited him, and only wondered why his mother took so much trouble about his dress, since they were merely going hunting. [10]
They told him things which surely would have excited any one else's suspicion, but they did not excite his. [5]
He entered those things in his note-book without suspicion, he takes them out and delivers them to the world with a candor and simplicity which show that he believed them genuine. [5]
The suspicion has therefore crossed my mind that they may serve in part as ornaments. [1]
In David's mind there was no suspicion that Nahoum knew the truth. [11]
At sight of them, with a suspicion of the truth, he ordered Lagroin to march the men down the long plateau. [11]
Dyck talked to them presently without turning round, for that might have roused suspicion, and while they were out of danger now, there was the future and Dyck's plan which he now unfolded. [11]
What had roused their suspicion he did not know: probably a hesitation concerning some Arab custom or the pronunciation of some Arab word--the timbre of the Arab voice was rougher and heavier. [11]
At any rate, the tendency, notwithstanding the French decision, is away from the common-law suspicion and tyranny towards a higher trust in an enlarged freedom. [4]
She had escaped the suspicion, if not the censure, of the world--or so she thought; and in the main she was right. [11]
Oh, Aleck, isn't the suspicion about your father enough, but you must put this on me as well? [11]
I have told the story of a blighted life without reserve, so that there shall not remain any mystery or any dark suspicion connected with my memory if I should be taken away unexpectedly. [6]
At this moment the old suspicion stirred her soul with revived force, and lifting her right hand, as if in attestation, she exclaimed: "Oh, Fate, Fate! [10]
I would publish the name, but for the suspicion that he might come and carve me. [5]
I suppose that the most cultivated and best informed portion of the earth's surface--the Western Reserve of Ohio, as free from conceit as it is from a suspicion that it lacks anything owes its pre-eminence solely to this comprehensive journal. [4]
As he raised the injured man, who still uttered low moans, and supported his head on his broad breast, the sweet perfume of fine ointment was wafted to him from his hair, and a fearful suspicion dawned upon his mind. [10]
His features betrayed the growth of this suspicion so clearly that the Master replied to his look as if it had been a remark. [6]
Bravely she fought the growing care and suspicion in her heart; but she was being tried beyond her strength. [11]
Perhaps something of the father's pride came up in him, perhaps he had just got some suspicion that between his daughter and Mrs. Falchion there was a subterranean rivalry. [11]
No suspicion of the cause of his trouble crossed her mind. [11]
I think also that there are special influences which work in the brood lake ferments, and I have a suspicion that some of those curious old stories I cited may have more recent parallels. [6]
He had had that suspicion before, though it was a poor consolation when he could not reach her. [9]
A horrible suspicion that she was having a little fun at my expense crossed my mind. [9]
Orion must believe that she had done him a wrong; still, could that make him so far forget himself as to carry out his threats, and sacrifice an innocent man--to divert suspicion from himself, while he branded her as a false witness? [10]
He had replied that Kaid would come again for him, and suspicion would be aroused if he were gone. [11]
One journal protested that it was not possible to believe in Dyck Calhoun's guilt; that his outward habits were known to all, and were above suspicion, although he had collogued--though never secretly, so far as the world knew--with some of the advanced revolutionary spirits. [11]
If his suspicion that it has been poisoned should be proved true, woe to this luckless city, woe to us all! [10]
He added, however, that if, as the Coroner seemed to suggest, he himself was under suspicion, it ought to appear to all that to have murdered Mazarine in the circumstances would have put in jeopardy any possible advantage. [11]
I wished heartily that I had exhausted him further, and a suspicion crossed my brain that he might have come to Mr. Allen, who had persuaded him to deliver a letter to Grafton intended for me. [9]
I have heard that his house is watched, and that they have him under suspicion for communicating with the Confederate leaders. [9]
These two details, taken in connection with the fact that for his extraordinary offense the only punishment he got from the East India Company's Government was a solemn official "reprimand"--suggest the suspicion that he was a European of consequence. [5]
The suspicion followed swiftly on his recalling to mind her vehement repudiation of his proffered gifts did he think she wanted what he could buy for her! [9]
Mr. Edwards' first suspicion was that I had allowed Baker to overreach me, as his friend, in behalf of Don Morrison. [7]
Mr. Warner's low-down suspicion was laid in the cold, cold grave, where it apparently belonged. [5]
No face showed suspicion or alarm, as they passed, while all felt the presence of many men in the underbrush. [11]
It looked with suspicion on the factories built after Ingolby came and on the mining propositions, which circled the place with speculation. [11]
Not the smallest suspicion of the possibility of her escape troubled his sense of security, when, not finding Sirona in the sleeping-room, he went into the sitting-room to carry out the meditated punishment. [10]
There was no suspicion of heroics, there was no railing at fate; the letters breathed but the one hope,--that her son might come again to that happiness of which she had robbed him. [9]
And while her suspicion of Hannah's anxiety troubled her, on the occasions when she thought of it, Lise's attitude disturbed her even more. [9]
With the first suspicion of dawn, every pilgrim took off his clothes and waded into the dark torrent, singing: "On Jordan's stormy banks I stand, And cast a wistful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. [5]
With just a suspicion of a twinge, Cynthia remembered that Janet Duncan she had seen at the capital, whom she had been told was the heiress of the state. [9]
Forthwith his natural suspicion leaped up, and the cunning of the monomaniac was upon him. [11]
Of me their suspicion knew no bounds, and they would give me gruff answers, or none, when I spoke to them. [9]
Sometimes there was suspicion in their eyes, but not always. [5]
That was why suspicion grew the more in the mind of Dicky. [11]
No doubt, this suspicion affected the reception of the books. [14]
She felt a strong suspicion that "the Sachem," as the boat-crews used to call him, "the Recluse," "the Night-Hawk," "the Sphinx," as others named him, must be the author of it. [6]
The suspicion was strengthened by appearances. [4]
Conrad blushed and stood folding his arms tight over his breast, while his sister received Margaret's confession with the suspicion which was her first feeling in regard to any new thing. [8]
I got to steal that money, somehow; and I got to steal it some way that they won't suspicion that I done it. [5]
It was a southern family, and of good blood; and for any person except Laura, either within or without the household to have suggested such an idea would have brought upon the suggester the suspicion of being a lunatic. [5]
They might suspicion something if all of you was to go. [5]
There was something so finely grotesque about the question and its parent suspicion, that he stopped to wonder and admire, and thus was he saved from laughing. [5]
There was something sinister about the murky atmosphere, and a suspicion of mosquitoes besides. [4]
McAndrews had a shrewd suspicion that neither Mrs. [9]
She wondered; then she was just a grain troubled; next a dim suspicion came and went--came again; she watched; a furtive glance told her worlds--and then her heart broke, and she was jealous, and angry, and the tears came and she hated everybody. [5]
He had been put in jail on suspicion of stealing a buffalo-robe, and he lay in jail eight months, waiting for the judge to come to Baddeck on his yearly circuit. [4]
Counsel for the prosecution now said: "By the oaths of citizens whose simple word is above suspicion, we have fastened this awful crime, beyond all possibility of question, upon the unhappy prisoner at the bar. [5]
It is not possible now to say how the suspicion of his religious soundness arose, but there seems to have been a notion that he had papal tendencies. [4]
It was a plan which was well calculated to ward off all suspicion from its inventor. [5]
Not a single person had vouchsafed Hermon a greeting; for the artist, divested of the highest esteem, had been involved in the ugly suspicion of having driven his uncle from Alexandria, and the monarch was said to have spoken unfavourably of him. [10]
Then this keen-eyed person appeared to me to be "taking my measure"; but I dismissed the suspicion when he spoke, for his manner was full of guileless candor and truthfulness. [5]
There are kindly people who may suspect a hidden generosity in that By-law; they may think it is there to protect the Official Reader from the suspicion of having written the poems himself. [5]
He had managed people for a long time and knew that the chief way to make them obey is to show no suspicion that they can possibly disobey. [2]
If suspicion comes out right and it's proved--well, there, he'll jostle the door-jamb of a jail. [11]
This was in Orion's presence so he was still under suspicion of a fraud; and it was difficult to determine whether the fine gem now lying on the table before them were indeed the same to which the Church laid claim. [10]

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