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No: it made me, for the first time in my life, hesitating, self-distrustful, and awfully disgusted at having to take your money into consideration.

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.

"You are rather a self-distrustful mortal," she remarked, leaning back in her corner and looking at him from under her parasol.

From A Lost Leader by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)

That being so, this self-distrustful trust is the beginning of everything.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander

As a matter of course, he always kept himself clean-shaven; and his scholarly stoop endured still, although the old, self-distrustful shamble had strengthened into a manly stride.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.

They are much more the work of a mechanic, not self-distrustful, but with comparatively little feeling for the higher range of artistic expression.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various