Indian, however, was an innocent, gullible youth, who took everything solemnly, and was in terror of his unhappy life every moment of the day.
But poor Jonathan, with all his smartness and all his cleverness, is probably the most gullible biped that crawls upon this earth.
He is purchasing some of the most valuable real estate that Protestant Yankees own, with Yankee money, and writes home to his royal holiness, the Pope, that Americans are a simple, gullible people.
He knew that an unduly suspicious nature is as bad as a gullible one.
Chuckling at the happy circumstances that some policemen are more gullible than others, the Phantom hurried forward in the shadows of tall brick buildings.
Perhaps our company is unduly concerned, but the truth is, Mrs. Hawthorne is a very foolish, gullible woman.
As gullible as a schoolboy, he had managed, with his sharp eye and knowing air and twisted blond mustaches, to pass himself off for an astute financier, and the Denver papers respectfully referred to him as the Rothschild of Cripple Creek.
He went to concerts chiefly to satisfy himself as to how badly things were done and how gullible the public was.
The absconding swindler is usually succeeded by an "agent" or "manager," who repudiates the bills against his rascally predecessor and continues the work of fleecing the gullible under some new title or by means of some new trick.
So vast was the number of the gullible that seldom, if ever, was an actual, bona fide letter sent in reply to those from the victims.
This secondary type is generally a cheap sort, grafting on the gullible for five or ten dollars, or even as high as $100.
Were the census enumerators of the United States to compile a list of the "sucker" public the gullible ones would aggregate tens of millions.
But that physicians should prove equally gullible is a sorry commentary on the scientific attainments of the followers of a learned profession.
German writers, after World War I, sometimes attributed the superiority of the British in propaganda to the innate fiendishness of Britishers as contrasted with the gullible purity of Germans.
Now Mr. Adams was a right clever Yankee so he suddenly felt inspired to try out this curse on the gullible American public, for he felt much as Barnum did, when he made his speech which will go down in history.
Why, the woman who made such a fortune out of gullible young things ought to be condemned to purgatory--only we know there isn't such a place!
If so, the most gullible person on the face of this very gullible earth would not believe him.
He used to loan money secretly at one hundred percent interest to ladies in financial straits whosegullible natures he would first test.
By this time Penny had seen enough to understand how Mrs. Dillon and other gulliblecustomers had been duped.
The rogue who had sold the fake painting to the gullible woman?
Gately wasn't quite gullible enough for that, and, too, he is more deeply concerned in it all than we know.
She's one of their spyders, who spin a pretty web and attract gullible flies.
Why not, if you have been as gullible as press and public, set things right and make what reparation you can to the members of your class?
By charging enormous prices and calling her frocks by poetical names she had bluffed the gullible public into believing that she was the last word--the very acme of fashion.
No doubt, on the minds of the gullible rich and charitably inclined who contribute to such institutions, the report of this feast day and of the great number "fed" must have made a great impression.
The yap who purchases checks of strangers and bets on monte is no more gullible than the average victim of the advertising grafter.
But nearly all had an unpleasant glance, severe and sour, so that it seemed doubtful whether they had ever smiled in their lives, save perhaps at nighttime after fooling their gullible husbands.
