It is one of those exquisitely simple and truthful books that win and charm the reader, and I did not put it down until I had finished it--honest!
She moved quickly about the room as she strained the milk into the crocks and made ready the simple supper.
The devotion and care of Steven, himself a small boy, for his baby brother, is the theme of the simple tale.
In the next, a simple and slight anterior dilatation alone represents the brain.
The development of the latter is simple, the connective tissue corpuscles functioning by a simple change of product as osteoblast.
The alimentary canal of the dog-fish, is a simple tube thrown into a Z shape.
Indeed, as a matter of fact, the making of rough garden-baskets is a very simple art, especially on the Scotch and German system.
But far beyond all his great kindness, was to me the simple fact that he shared my belief in George's innocence; for there were times when the universal persuasion of his guilt almost shook, not my faith, but my reason.
It is just one simple picture that makes one glad for three months of the later summer and early autumn.
The diagram shows a simple arrangement for a little garden of China Asters of the purple and white colourings.
The plan shows the simple arrangement; the paths following the most natural lines that the place suggests.
For the sake of clearness they are shown in as simple a form as possible, but the same colour-scheme could be adapted to others of more important design and larger extent.
To devise these living pictures with simple well-known flowers seems to me the best thing to do in gardening.
Only the hair as it arched so beautifully from her temples was mixed with silver, and the two simple plaits that lay on her shoulders were filigree of silver and brown.
The dress, a simple thing of green crape, suited her.
It was known in Nottingham that Paul Morel and Mrs. Dawes were going together, but as nothing was very obvious, and Clara was always a solitary person, and he seemed so simple and innocent, it did not make much difference.
She wore a large, dowdy hat of black beaver, and a sort of slightly affected simple dress that made her look rather sack-like.
Seeing him so, she loved him; he seemed so simple and sufficient to himself.
But she was a married woman, and he believed in simple friendship.
I feel so simple with you--as if there was nothing to hide.
Yes, my boy; I write simplelittle plays, easy to be understood.
Mrs. Verschoyle received the stranger with the simple courtesy of good breeding.
She set bread and meat and milk on the table; and Desmond fell to the simple meal as if half famished.
Stephenson was a man of a very kindly disposition and exceptionally simple tastes," said Sir Robert, "and some railway people wished to present him with a piece of plate of the value of 500 guineas.
She had her figure, her red and blue frock, her white petticoat, her prettysimple manner, her small shoes with the silver buckles, her red and blue stockings!
A simple tale, I am bound to call it, revolving entirely round a situation not altogether unknown to fiction, in which the hero and heroine, being of opposite sides, love and fight one another simultaneously.
No one can afford to say that, if this apparently, simple malady were studied, facts of the utmost value to hatters would not be forthcoming.
It is evident that each material organism is an aggregate expression of single and simple elements, and a given cellular element or atom has its coursings or journeyings through various and myriad stages of life.
Human strife and religious disagreement complex and disfigure the simple purity and beauty of the divine Cause until clouds obscure the light of reality and disunion results.
As nature is indestructible, every simpleelement of nature is lasting and permanent.
Thus they cannot disintegrate nor become separated in their component atoms but are single, simple and, therefore, everlasting.
He has set aside the elaborate theories and exhaustive opinions of scientists and material philosophers by the simple statement, “There is no beginning, no ending.
Again, according to natural philosophy it is an assured fact that single or simple elements are indestructible.
The tender and simple seed, solitary though it may be, must not look upon its own lack of power.
That is to say, when perfect equality shall be established between men and women, peace may be realized for the simple reason that womankind in general will never favor warfare.
Otherwise, by simple development along material lines man is not perfected.
But not one could withstand the simple goodness of the unsophisticated girl.
The Quakers reject every form of oath, and confine themselves to a simple affirmation.
Much that seems like a fairy tale to us is simple unquestioning reality to them.
Prince Cantimir of Moldavia[14] states that Ibrahim was a simplejanissary of the 9th company.
At the height of their power the Turks were nevertheless still a simple people.
This is the earliest and most simple of the various stages through which history is obliged to pass.
They wouldn't have him for a tenor in the opera, certainly, for he is shaky in his upper notes; but if his simple melodies didn't gush straight from the heart!
Brief as it is in form, and simple in outline, Scotland has produced nothing so full of pure, pathetic genius since Scott.
The ideal is the true real; the only absurdity lies in the pomp and circumstance wherewith that simple truth is introduced.
She got the real fact out of every bit of material in humanity and nature that her simple life afforded her.
The matter is, however, not quite so simple as might be inferred from some of the allusions to it which occurred during last night's debate upon the Navy Estimates.
Either let its place be taken by some clear and simple statement of unquestioned prize law, for the use of commanders and Officials, .
I fear we are as yet far from having disposed of the comparatively simple question as to the operations which may be properly undertaken by a naval squadron against an undefended seaboard.
It is our duty to prevent the scandal that might thus be given to the simple and unreflecting.
None could be so simple as to believe that there were only forty-six voters against him, when all the numerous officials, both civil and military, protested against his aggression by resigning their offices.
What was the use of being an Inca if he could not manage a simple little thing like that?
And, so far as clothes were concerned, doubtless the cultivated ground yielded a superabundance ample enough to afford them the means of bartering it for such simple clothing as they needed.
Why," explained Butler impatiently, "the thing is surely simple enough for a baby to understand.
You saved my life not long ago, and I should be an ingrate indeed if I refused to conform to your wishes in so simple a matter as that.
For, let us see a little what effects this simple change carries in it the possibilities of.
Certainly it is a drama full of action, event fast following event; in which curiosity finds endless scope, and there are interests at stake, enough to rivet the attention of all men, simple and wise.
A simple pious creature, a good country-priest, invested unexpectedly with the tiara, takes up the New Testament, declares that this henceforth shall be his rule of governing.
We know what France suddenly became in the end of February next; and by a clear enough genealogy, we can trace a considerable share in that event to the good simple Pope with the New Testament in his hand.
Placing himself in the center of it, he was carried gently, by no spring but a simple hydraulic machine, worked by the reservoir which had extinguished the fire, up into the study reserved for the old alchemist.
Contains simpleand full directions by which any one may acquire the amusing art, with numerous examples for practice.
Your suspicions shall be changed to certainty by a very simple course.
It Tells= of a simple and ingenious method of copying any kind of drawing or picture.
Any boy who wishes to obtain an art by which he can develop a wonderful amount of astonishment, mystery, and fun, should learn Ventriloquism, as he easily can follow the simple secret given in this book.
It issimple and reliable and can be used by any person.
If they fail to get one office they immediately run for another, and they keep running until the people elect them for the simple purpose of getting rid of the annoyance.
What does a simple soldier know about the wants of the city of New York?
Have the clear title-deeds in fee simple to yourselves, without any mortgage on the premises to anybody in the world.
Why allow fiat money to fade out when a simple act of Congress can make it as good as gold?
The Southern rebel went with the current; the Northern rebel rowed against the current from pure, simple cussedness.
I do not believe that the Senate of the United States, or the lower house of Congress, by a simple objection, should have the right to deprive any State of its electoral vote.
The simple fact that you are white cannot save you always.
We want the simple honest payment of the debt, and to pay out of the prosperity of this country.
There is the same difference between simple brute strength and skilled labor that there is between noise and the symphonies of Beethoven.
They are also schools of gardening; and a simple inspection of what has been done at Bhagulpore is a valuable lesson to any person about to establish a private garden of his own.
The poppy-petal pancakes, each about a foot radius, are made in the fields by women, by the simple operation of pressing the fresh petals together.
The simple laurel and oak-leaf chaplets on the alternating faces are far more suitable and suggestive.
Nothing can be more fascinating than the simple manners of these kind people, who really love hospitality for its own sake, and make the stranger feel himself welcome.
These simple people believe that the spirit of the deceased will have immediate use for them in the life to come.
The tale of his adventures was doubtless received with slight credence by his simple relatives.
Simple benches were provided for the accommodation of the gentlemen.
This drew from me a narrative of the occasion of my wound, which I related in the same simple terms and brief manner in which it is recorded in my journal.
At these tidings, simple truth calls on me to declare, my heart felt relieved.
The career of the grandfather and father of our author, as in simple phrase he relates it in his Introduction, is typical of those of the founders of Kentucky, and the early settlers of the rich valley of the Missouri.
The Abbe delivered this oration with a gravity of mien and tone which made it difficult to guess whether he spoke in sport or in earnest, in simple playfulness or with latent sarcasm.
So he getteth his javelin into his hand and cometh to the hermit, and saith: "Fond and simplethat ye are, now give ear unto me.
Right wondrous is the tourney wherein she hath jousted for me, yet I should make small account thereof and if I did not now do combat for her; foolish and simple would I be and if I turned me again to the vanities of the world.
The big and simple man was in an agony of repentance.
