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"Perhaps I wanted a standard measure," Stella whispered, with a gesture of disarming confidingness.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by MacKenzie, Compton

They sparkled with glad surprise when they beheld the master of the house, whom Frida immediately approached with frank confidingness.

From Partners A Novel. by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)

With what perfect and entire confidingness did Jesus commit Himself to his Heavenly Father’s guidance!

From The Mind of Jesus by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)

‘A nunnery!’ said Malcolm, encouraged into the simple confidingness of a young boy. 

From The Caged Lion by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

The shopkeepers, restaurants, and gambling-houses, with an amiable confidingness peculiar to such people, had trusted the miners to that degree that they themselves were in the same moneyless condition.

From The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 by Clappe, Louise Amelia Knapp Smith