To this ingenious argument she answered with so much good sense, and at the same time, so much gentleness and artlessness, that I thought I could have listened to her for ever.

"It's perfectly ridiculous to call me well off: and how could I make you richer than kings and things, you know?" The old and the young men exchanged looks of unspeakable admiration at such touching artlessness.

I will admit that the school is not as retiring and diffident as formerly; for we are all ready enough to say that no times are egual to our own times; but I shall strenuously protest against your interpretation of the nature and artlessness of an American girl.

" "Artlessness!" repeated John Effingham, with a slight lifting of the eye-brows; "we live in an age when new dictionaries and vocabularies are necessary to understand each other's meaning.

It is artlessness, with a vengeance, to beset an old fellow of fifty, as one would besiege a town.

Surely, she cannot be consciously doing anything wrong, for I never saw such perfect artlessness of look and manner."

The seeming artlessness of much of this verse should not blind us to the fact that an unusual number of poets had really studied the art of song.

" The simplicity and apparent artlessness of his A Child's Garden of Verse (1885) have caused many critics to neglect these poems; but the verdict of young children is almost unanimous against such neglect.

[Thing shown]. indication &c (calling attention to) 457. publicity &c 531; disclosure &c 529; openness &c (honesty) 543, (artlessness) 703; panchement. evidence &c 467.

[Lat.]; love of truth; probity &c 939; ingenuousness &c (artlessness) 703.

Artlessness N. artlessness &c adj.; nature, simplicity; innocence &c 946; bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity; singleness of purpose, singleness of heart; honesty &c 939; plain speaking; epanchement [Fr.].

Artlessness N. artlessness &c adj.; nature, simplicity; innocence &c 946; bonhomie, naivete, abandon, candor, sincerity; singleness of purpose, singleness of heart; honesty &c 939; plain speaking; epanchement [Fr.].

She had gloried in his fustian rhetoric, his glib artlessness, his airy scorn of money; and now all this proved mere pinchbeck.

Marcel could not help laughing at the girl's artlessness.

He gives utterance to these feelings with characteristic enthusiasm, and at the same time with the artlessness and simplicity of diction of a child.

There was a piquancy in her accent that made the hearer wish to hear further, and a certain artlessness in her manner not met with recently by him.

I uttered an exclamation of delight, and she from her corner, with the artlessness of a child, said, "I put them there for you to see."

" (2) So, again, too, in regard to the form of Christ's sayings; to speak of their artlessness and homely simplicity is to tell only a small part of the truth concerning them.

In it were mingled craft and artlessness with a touch of dignity to make it unassailable.

This inability to remember faces was allied in Lord John with a curious artlessness of disposition which made it impossible for him to feign a cordiality he did not feel.

Per contra, all the Jigbeesand they were a prolific raceswore that their distinguished relative was a pattern of artlessness and innocence.

" "We shall be very glad," returned Clara, with a singular mixture of consciousness and artlessness.

Nevertheless she was favored with her usual childlike artlessness of speech, and answered, "I am glad you find it agreeable.

He did not attempt to write one single symmetrical epistolary romance; but the individual letters are usually slight sketches of character carelessly gathered together, and deriving their greatest charm from their apparent spontaneity and artlessness.

In her artlessness Angélique concludes from his description that he means himself.