Example Sentences

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Everywhere calm plenty was evident, remote from excess, but noble and self-trusting.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

This was a proud fellow, self-trusting, sensitive, with family-recollections that made him unwilling to accept the kind of aid which many students—would have thankfully welcomed.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various