1 Those consigned to the fields were the ones least willing or able to learn, the least energetic, the least honest and trustworthy, the most vicious and brutish.
2 Once in her possession there arose the perplexing problem of finding a trustworthy man to put in charge of it.
3 And because he was a gentleman and himself trustworthy, he trusted every scoundrel who came along and several times would have lost money for her if she had not tactfully intervened.
4 By the best authorities, he has always been considered a most trustworthy and unexaggerating historian, except in some one or two particulars, not at all affecting the matter presently to be mentioned.
5 Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 6 Besides, he felt that she was devoted and trustworthy.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 15: CHAPTER I—A DRINKER IS A BABBLER 7 Madame de Bois-Tracy asked me, for one of her friends who resides in the provinces, I believe, for a trustworthy maid.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT 8 He is the most estimable, the most trustworthy creature in the world, and I will venture to say, there is not a better seaman in all the merchant service.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. 9 You are aware, monsieur, that a man may be estimable and trustworthy in private life, and the best seaman in the merchant service, and yet be, politically speaking, a great criminal.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 7. The Examination. 10 The date had long passed on which, according to the most trustworthy calculations of people learned in such matters, Kitty should have been confined.
11 Metrov repeated a saying that had reached him through a most trustworthy source, reported as having been uttered on this subject by the Tsar and one of the ministers.
12 Here are three written descriptions by trustworthy witnesses of Mr. and Mrs. Vandeleur, who at that time kept St. Oliver's private school.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets 13 In other respects it is better; it has glass windows, a decent chimney, and a trustworthy floor.
14 He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified.