La Fontaine was in society a mere simpleton.

The credulous simpleton already saw himself beheaded and wept in anticipation over the fate of his family.

"He laid a trap for us, and we fell into it like the veriest simpletons.

Then she shot an aside at the slim youth: "You're a regular, downright simpleton, Thad, and forever looking for trouble.

To keep it back, to delay sending it, till he had recollected all this farrago of nonsenseconfound his wisdom of nations, if so much of it is to be scraped together, in disgrace of itself, to make one egregious simpleton!

'Captain Ferragut is such an enamored simpleton,' you have said to one another.

In the meantime, Clara Brandon is safe beyond the reach of all the judges or chancellors that ever wore horsehair, and that everlasting simpleton of a major and his harridan wife roaming the metropolis like distracted creatures; and that I take to be the real essence of the thing, whatever the big-wigs may decide about the shells!"

I'm simply telling you Phil Lambert is the man that ought to marry her, and if he doesn't get on to the job almighty quick that pop-eyed simpleton over there will be prancing down the aisle to Lohengrin with Carlotta before Christmas, and the jig will be up.

His attitude towards the old Bromide (I thank you, Mr. Gelett Burgess, for teaching me that word which so lightly and charmingly describes the child of darkness and of platitude) was that of one who should say: "You dear, funny old simpleton, whom I have had to bear with all my lifehow terribly in the way you seem now."

As for young Breslin, Pringle had long since sized him up for what the Major knew him to bea good-hearted, right-meaning simpleton.

His neighbour is an honest simpleton, who, stopping in admiration before the doorway of Notre Dame in Paris in order to admire the statues of Pepin, Charlemagne, and their successors, has his pocket picked of his purse.

He sees first a happy family, a charming, clinging little simpleton of a wife, with half a dozen or so infants clinging to her skirts and bosom, and her round eyes lifted in adorable helplessness to the face of that great, strong lord and master, her husband.

The types interested us so; physiognomy counts for nothing, apparently,faces that might have been the first Napoleon or Tennyson or even Shakespeare,doing the simple manual part of lifting the blocks of metal and attending to the machinery, older men, these;and the Editor, who naturally must have been very clever, had a round moon face, tiny baby nose, two marbles stuffed in for eyes and the look of a boyish simpleton.

At the head of the cordel was a merry simpleton of a Frenchman, who was constantly turning his head to grin with delight at our evident enjoyment and excitement.

He knew nothing of money, this monstrous simpleton, nothing of trade, nothing of the complex pretences upon which the social fabric of the little folks was built.

Those lessons were the germs of the inventions and babyismsthe hand-clapping, arm-twisting, and the likewith which the infants are so delighted in their schools, and which, at the time they were developed, about a third of a century since, were scouted, and the inventor looked upon as a good natured simpleton, or a well-meaning fool.

A large car, driven by strangers in the land, means hunters, prospectors from the outside brought in by some special tale of hidden wealth,or just plain simpletons who only want to see what lies over the mountain.

Poor, pretentious old simpleton!

"You are a pretty simpleton, to set up your opinion against that of all civilized society!" was the response of incarnate Reason.

What a simpleton she had beenwhat a little naïve, provincial simpleton!

"A rare simpleton's question, i' faith, yes.

Cacurgus is a rustic simpleton and cunning mischief-maker.

To us who have no gardens, and often walk abroad, it is plain that we can never get into a bit of a crowd but we must rub clothes with a set of roughs, who have the worst vices of the worst richwho are gamblers, sots, libertines, knaves, or else mere sensual simpletons and victims.

"what is this superannuated simpleton calculating upon?

As for young Breslin, Pringle had long since sized him up for what the Major knew him to bea good-hearted, right-meaning simpleton.