182 examples of simpleton in sentences

But when he beheld that it was she indeed, and not only condemned, but already at the stake, he made way through the crowd with violence, crying out, "This is not the person,this poor simpleton!

" "Nakú, it's certain then," exclaimed the simpleton, believing it at once.

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

begged the credulous simpleton in a still more tearful voice, for he already saw himself riddled with bullets and buried.

Hence a man's intellectual as well as his moral qualities proceed from the depths of his own nature, and are not the result of external influences; and no educational schemeof Pestalozzi, or of any one elsecan turn a born simpleton into a man of sense.

He was born a simpleton, and a simpleton he will die.

He was born a simpleton, and a simpleton he will die.

No doubt that local simpleton is making a mess of your case.

'What a simpleton you are, Molly!'

Like a simpleton, she told the whole story, so pleased to have earned the money, and never dreaming but that it was her own!

The poor simpleton!

"Simpleton!" thought I: "must women always have beaux in order to be calm about the future?" Mr. G. came on board in a few minutes, bringing us from his wife an invitation of welcome to her house.

You have sent him to his deathyou meddler, you simpleton!

"'Well, it was you, I hear, that helped her back to earth and started her in the simpleton life.

Can it be that that simpleton of a doña Pepita is blind to all this?"

The chief of the barracks did not dare to inspect the church, but he looked contemptuously upon Mosen Jòrdi, the priest, as a simpleton quite capable of permitting tobacco to be hidden behind the altars in exchange for the privilege of fishing in peace.

He shakes his head at my pretty folly, calls me simpleton; gives me a jewel, then goes to bed so wise, so satisfied, and so deceived.

The simpleton, The six, and The millionairess.

He moves small fingers much, and all his speech Is like a sampler of precisest words, Set in the pattern of a simpleton.

When I sit in judgement I never lack for words, but in the presence of this innocent maiden I am as stupid as the veriest simpleton of a chicken thief.

If he cannot distinguish her from the others, the simpleton might as well have no eyes in his head. KING.

"Hugo," she said, "I was but a simpleton when I came hither, and knew nothing.

I had perceived that the simpleton had bought her with much eager desire, and perhaps his heart was fixed on her; for this reason, I, suppressing my inward vexation, remained silent; but my heart from that moment was disturbed and displeasure affected my temper; moreover, the wretch had the impudence to make this harlot our cup-bearer.

In most cases, such a document would have been fit only for the waste-paper basket; but, in this particular case, it so happens that Mr. Sharpin's budget of nonsense leads to a certain conclusion which the simpleton of a writer has been quite innocent of suspecting from the beginning to the end.

Whereupon the father leaned back in his chair and laughed, laughed until he grew red in the face, laughed till the pans in the kitchen rattled, laughedto use the words of his wife in closing the incident"like a natural born simpleton.

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