Yes, indeed, Grace," she replied, with the most ingenuous naivete.
He told her that he loved her, and received her ingenuous confession in return.
I'm not sure I wasn't one of them myself," added Jack, with an ingenuous laugh.
She has come up to London with an ingenuous mind which takes the most reverential attitude in the world towards art.
Pathetic" for it is boldly ingenuous as youth itself with a touch of youthful conceit and exaggeration.
Her fine teeth showed in the most ingenuousof smiles.
The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
But no brilliancy of intellect will compensate for the loss of the pure ingenuous peace of boyhood.
The plebs of many colleges included slaves, and in more than one inscription the men of ingenuous and those of servile birth are carefully distinguished, the slaves being sometimes placed at the bottom of the roll.
The so-called free man of the highest rank may be the offspring of a servile amour, and the so-called slave may be ingenuous in every sense, condemned to bondage by an accident of fortune.
But Villebelle did not know how to read this ingenuous heart.
The happy bachelor placed his chair close up to that of Blanche and very gently took one of her hands, which the ingenuous child allowed him to retain.
The character of the barber, the cold, serious manner which he wore before Blanche, did not invite confidence, and imposed a restraint on the young girl, whose ingenuous heart seemed to seek a friend.
We have not the ingenuous simplicity that marks the caste answering more or less to that of Vere de Vere, in Italy, for example.
Everywhere he was received in the best society, and the charm of his manner and his ingenuous nature made him everywhere a favorite.
Thus the ingenuous young man argued with himself, until it seemed plain to him that if Evelyn loved him, and the conviction grew that she did, all obstacles must give way to this overmastering passion of his life.
Not improbably his assumptions were offensive to the ungodly, and his ingenuous boastings made him the object of amusement to the skeptics.
But he renewed his acquaintance with Miss Eschelle, and it was the prattle of this ingenuous creature that made him more heavy-hearted than anything else.
To high moral worth and irreproachable habits were joined gentleness of manner, an ingenuous disposition, and vigor of understanding.
Carmen's ingenuous interest in his work may have encouraged the hope that at least a portion of this fortune might be rescued to charitable uses.
That was the ingenuous Dass's idea of justice, that he ought to be paid about five million pounds annually because he had annexed the selvage of one of Holsten's discoveries.
Darrow broke into a laugh at thisingenuous picture of his state.
She was pale, and her eyes were fixed on him in a gaze in which there was neither distrust or resentment, but only an ingenuous wonder.
All these things came back to him as he sat beside her in the theatre and watched her ingenuous absorption.
You have the treasures of aningenuous and delicate tenderness.
Old Schulz knew the ingenuous words, but never had they so spoken to him, never so nearly.
Mark had an ingenuous habit of putting wise words into the mouth of this Olympian.
Why mourns the ingenuous Moralist, whose mind Science has stored, and Piety refined, That fading Chivalry displays no more Her pomp and stately tournaments of yore!
And the ingenuous youth here clapped his hand to his mouth, and gave a loud halloo.
And this tale differed, in some respects, though he is far from saying it is more authentic than the ingenuous narrative of Mr. Will.
Furthermore, Roscoe was as frank andingenuous and modest as the young men I have described.
Platitudes would not do for this child, he reflected, and to lecture her then even on the A B C's of the social code would be wounding her ingenuous faith.
She was still in the hook of Harlan's arm, and from that vantage-point flung a glance of childishly ingenuous triumph at him.
He was so big and manly, and he had rapidly become so self-poised, that they did not realize that in experience he was only a boy, with the ingenuous faith and simple aims and candor of boyhood.
He became secretly ashamed of some of his ingenuous beliefs, after she had deftly shown him the other side of things.
Poor little Letitia, after three perusals of this ingenuous epistle, where the laws of punctuation were so disregarded, resigned it to one of the pockets of her brother Ripton's best jacket, deeply smitten with the careless composer.
This same Charles leaves it to me to say what I will of him, and I am not a little pleased with the ingenuousmanner of his address.
He heard me with great attention, bowing, smiling, and showing all other instances of that natural good-breeding which ingenuous tempers pay to those who are elder and wiser than themselves.
I am too ingenuous to endeavour at the covering of my negligence with so common an excuse.
When her lover entered the room, her features flushed with shame and joy; and the ingenuous manner, so full of passion and of awe, with which Tranquillus approached to salute her, gave me good omens of his future behaviour towards her.
Accurate in fact, naturally easy in delivery, bitter in irony, and ingenuous in argument, few are ready to meet him on the floor of the Commons.
