Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...failure, although the crew that had been the favorite before the race won in each race; the failure consisting in the fact that not one of the crews which competed is now qualified to row as an amateur in England; indeed, Lee, the single-scull winner, has been under suspicion for some time in this country. The "Sewing-Machines," as they are called, proved themselves miracles of gameness, endurance, and speed as their record of 7.17 1/2 in the short race and 18.44 1/2 in the three-mile race shows. The times for all the test-races are found...
...however, they were laid with a different food, and I was coming upon a different errand. I was haunted by a suspicion that board at a club was not quite worth while; I had heard that the Memorial tables were not so black as they were painted, after all; and I had come to see for myself if they really had celery and table-cloths...
...moneyed man in the commercial world frequently raises large sums on his credit; but in college matters are different. A man who borrows is always regarded with suspicion; and a man who for any reason fails to pay his debts is a lost man from that time forth. So don't borrow. And if anybody tries to borrow from you, make some excuse or other. A man who lends is generally supposed to do so out of sympathy for the impecuniosity which he has himself experienced...
...threw suspicion to the dogs...
...most thorough and promising kind. But conspicuous as he was for mental ability, it is in the private relations of friendship that his loss will be most felt. His friends will miss one who was warm-hearted, loyal, and generous to a fault; one whose character, far above the suspicion of anything mean or paltry, was yet tempered with so much modesty as to render it obtrusive to no one; one who never hesitated to express his strict and conscientious sentiments, and yet was always considerate; in short, one whose wholesome, lovable, and manly nature inspired an ever-increasing respect...