Example Sentences

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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

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