To me the strange part of it all was that these very simpletons who were howling so loudly for surrender would be among those counted as prisoners, and I failed utterly to understand how they could figure themselves as being better off in the power of Thayendanega's wolves, than in the fort where they had a chance of fighting to the death.

Even the domain of the loathsome has been recently invaded, and simpletons are told in the book before us to swallow serpents' poison; nay, it is said that the pediculis capitis is actually prescribed in infusion,hunted down in his capillary forest, and transferred to the digestive organs of those he once fed upon.

As the boys were no simpletons, they readily grasped the essential qualities of Obed's little scheme.

If Van is a fool, I prefer simpletons to wiseacres.

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

This rubbish, the restitution of universal suffrage, entraps the simpletons.

New York girls have worn white cloth habits at Lenox without shocking the moral sense of the inhabitants, but Lenox, during the season, probably contains a smaller percentage of simpletons than any village in the United States, and some daring Boston girls have appeared this year in cool and elegant habits of shepherd's check, and have pleased every good judge who has seen them.

Ben-Zayb and Padre Camorra shook their fists in each other's faces, one talking of simpletons and the other of ink-slingers, Padre Sibyla kept harping on the Capitulum, and Padre Fernandez on the Summa of St. Thomas, until the curate of Los Baños entered to announce that breakfast was served.

Hannibal Proceeds to Campania From the field of battle Hannibal had turned his steps to Campania, He knew Rome better than the simpletons, who in ancient and modern times have fancied that he might have terminated the struggle by a march on the enemy's capital.

They raise soldiers, the simpletons; they bombard our forts and our houses, the idiots!

Hence Romulus and Remus were said to have been nursed by a Wolf, Telephus the Son of Hercules by a Hind, Pelias the Son of Neptune by a Mare, and Ægisthus by a Goat; not that they had actually suck'd such Creatures, as some Simpletons have imagin'd, but that their Nurses had been of such a Nature and Temper, and infused such into them.

I stayed among 'em two winters and found 'em a harmless lot o' simpletons that wouldn't hurt a hair o' yer head.

Money, no matter what simpletons preach, money, my dear, is" "Why, Lucy, what is the matter?" exclaimed Miss Millicent, with some surprise and anxiety, as she saw the girl, who had just entered, instead of advancing, awkwardly shrink on one side into a chair behind the door, with a shudder, as if she had trod on a reptile.

She saw people around her cowards in vice, and simpletons in virtue, and she had no patience with either, for she was as little the one as the other herself.

Of all the simpletons the stars shine on there is none more foolish than a man who leaves one job before he has obtained another.

They do not wear straw in their hair like maniacs, nor drool like simpletons.

thought the reconnoitring simpletons in Taubes, when they noted beneath them the incredible processions of taxi- cabs going north.

I remember saying to myself what a pair of simpletons you must be if you was thinking of going to Ahalala.'

On seeing me smile, he asked the reason; and I answered: "What simpletons some of the breeders here must be to pit a Balâka cock against one of the Nârikela breed, which is sure to win.

There may, indeed, be simpletons in the political world who dream that if only the system of government were made still more popular, all would be plain sailing.

But then Sir Henry Maine is not the man to write for simpletons.

In the late Government, besides the Prime Minister, there were also three men of letters, and I have never heard that those three were greater simpletons than their neighbours.

Hence Romulus and Remus were said to have been nursed by a Wolf, Telephus the Son of Hercules by a Hind, Pelias the Son of Neptune by a Mare, and Ægisthus by a Goat; not that they had actually suck'd such Creatures, as some Simpletons have imagin'd, but that their Nurses had been of such a Nature and Temper, and infused such into them.

We have had two or three simpletons return from Russia, charmed with the murderess, believing her innocent, because she spoke graciously to them in the drawing-room.

Philosophers make systems, and we simpletons collections: and we are as wise as theywiser perhaps, for we know that in a few years our rarities will be dispersed at an auction; and they flatter themselves that their reveries will be immortal, which has happened to no system yet.