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The desponding, self-distrusting side of his nature said, "No. Why should she?"

From Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

It is true that the wealthy heiress had lured on her self-distrusting lover to make a declaration which he had not contemplated; but who will charge her with unmaidenly conduct?

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt

Worse yet, what must he think of me as a wife?” she asked herself, and each question left her more bitterly humiliated, more self-distrusting, more unhappy.

From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.

With mingled shame and penitence she reviewed her spiritual declensions, and with an humbled, self-distrusting spirit renewed her neglected covenant with the God and guide of her youth.

From Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons by Stuart, Arabella W.

Her resolution astonished her friends, for they knew her to have a very timid and self-distrusting character, and the situation in which she was thus suddenly placed would have appalled even a stout heart.

From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Hall, Edward B.