The terms honourable, noble, and worthy gentleman, resounded through the room; nay, my landlord himself began to have a better opinion of him, and almost to
disbelieve the account which the guide had given.
We can
DISBELIEVE the image-proposition expressed by "the window to the left of the door," and our disbelief will be true if the window is not to the left of the door.
One cannot
disbelieve facts, Darya Alexandrovna," said he, with an emphasis on the word "facts.
Rings by the dozen, diamonds by the score; bracelets, pendants, aigrettes, necklaces, pearls, rubies, amethysts, sapphires; and diamonds always, diamonds in everything, flashing bayonets of light, dazzling me--blinding me--making me
disbelieve because I could no longer forget.
I have tried, for the sake of my own self-respect, to
disbelieve it as long as I could; but his looks, his actions, force on me the shameful conviction of the truth.
His distress was by no means alleviated by an inclination to
disbelieve the reality of this experience.
He had no reason to
disbelieve them; the girl's manner being so natural as to be almost convincing, if he had had any previous doubts.
There are stories of her which I would fain
disbelieve -- stories that she is sealed to some Gentile.
I am telling you the truth, and you have no right to
disbelieve me; I have kept my word to you, and you have never detected me in a falsehood.
Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while
disbelieves.
A Unitarian very earnestly
disbelieves in almost everything that anybody else believes, and he has a very lively sustaining faith in he doesn't quite know what.
Van Mons, in his treatise on pears and apples, shows how utterly he
disbelieves that the several sorts, for instance a Ribston-pippin or Codlin-apple, could ever have proceeded from the seeds of the same tree.
