Everything combined to make it seem a page torn from one of those old-time fairy books they used to love to read when much younger, and more gullible.

Adj. credulous, gullible; easily deceived &c 545; simple, green, soft, childish, silly, stupid; easily convinced; over-credulous, over confident, over trustful; infatuated, superstitious; confiding &c (believing) 484.

Doubtless the very fishes of our rivers, gullible as they look, and slow as they are to be rightly convinced in another order of facts, form fewer false expectations about each other than we should form about them if we were in a position of somewhat fuller intercourse with their species; for even as it is we have continually to be surprised that they do not rise to our carefully selected bait.

" Roy rapidly sketched the events leading up to his capture and imprisonment, not forgetting to lay the blame on himself for being so gullible as to be led into such a pitfall.

But the picture between the lines which they unanimously presented, was of a spoiled beauty, restless for the publicity that private life deprived her of, offering in a winning manner to a gullible public, a gold brick.

Maybe he was laughing at her, telling them how "easy" she had been, how gullible.

DRUGGER (Abel), a seller of tobacco; artless and gullible in the extreme.

It would really help if the average Goan was less gullible and didn't judge issues along emotional lines alone.

The Grey One, just a gullible girl, was left half dead.

TOBY-DOG, (gullible) I lick the hand thatyes, that's it exactly.

It is only in the by-ways of finance and in the gutters of City journalism that the traps are laid for the greedy and gullible public, and if the public walks in, it has itself to blame.

LARDNER, ELLIS Gullible's travels, etc.

R109368. SEE Lardner, Ring W. LARDNER, RING W. Gullible's travels, etc.

LARDNER, ELLIS Gullible's travels, etc.

R109368. SEE Lardner, Ring W. LARDNER, RING W. Gullible's travels, etc.

The Andorrans are a simple, proud, gullible people, who live to-day in the past, of the past and for the past; "Les vallées et souverainetés de l'Andorre" are to them to-day just what they always werea little world of their own.

He is prejudiced to the point of perversity, and gullible almost to sublimity, uncritical even for an eminently uncritical age, accepting and retailing any and every monstrous invention, the more readily apparently in proportion to its monstrosity.

I paid them extortionate prices on account of extreme ignorance; and the birds, of course, flew home as soon as released, to be bought again by some gullible amateur.

Charles, more credulous and gullible than I should have believed, turned to Hymbercourt.

I saw at Riverside large crops of oranges frozen upon the trees; but the real estate sharks never allow these facts to be published, because they fatten on the profits made by selling lands to the gullible "tender feet" from the east, who, when they have bought these farms at enormous prices, find to their utter discouragement, that they must also buy water for irrigation from monopolists, at ruinous rates, else the soil is worthless.

Having been frequently lectured by his wife for being so easy and gullible, he was now eager to believe himself a very Shylock.

To maintain his influence, he suggests to the old Baron the establishment of a stock company for the selling of compressed air, assuring this gullible old soul that hereby his fortunes can be retrieved and his appointment as Privy Councilor can be realized.

The term *papamoscas* is also familiarly used for *papanatas* (gullible person).

A very few of them really tried to establish telephone systems, but the majority were organized simply to sell stock to a gullible public.