This and the following specimens of Chinese stories of simpletons are from "Contes et Bon Mots extraits d'un livre chinois intitule Siao li Siao, traduit par M.
You would hardly believe, Belle, that though I offered at least ten thousand lines nearly as good as those to the booksellers in London, the simpletons were so blind to their interest as to refuse purchasing them!
Here were we three simpletons sitting in a London flat and projecting a mission into the enemy's citadel without an idea what we were to do or how we were to do it.
Very well," said Philip; "and I'll tell you whatsimpletons are.
I haven't either the patience or the will to tell you all the clever stunts we put over on you simpletons last year.
Maybe any being that thinks outside the box would be perceived as bad by these simpletons -- even God were these simpletons not so simple as to fear thinking Him evil.
Only simpletons would judge me or any other thoughtful woman considering and doing the same.
In a small way we were the same sort of simpletons as those who climb unnecessarily the perilous peaks of Mont Blanc and the Matterhorn, and derive no pleasure from it except the reflection that it isn't a common experience.
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.
But, yesterday, I have learned, from the very lips of the Bishops of Rome, that we were a band of simpletons in believing those things.
Though I deplore for your sake that you have requested me to take away your name from the ‘Three Masses Society,’ you and the four simpletons who have committed the same act of folly are the only losers in the matter.
Father Goriot, with a change of countenance; "are you really paying court to his daughter, as those simpletons were saying down below?
Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.
I'm talking of the simpletons that believe in them," said Thorkell, snappishly.
You would hardly believe, Belle, that though I offered at least ten thousand lines nearly as good as those to the booksellers in London, the simpletons were so blind to their interest, as to refuse purchasing them!
The offers of these wretches to procure wives for men wishing to be married, are often accepted by simpletons living in country districts.
There is scarcely a town or village in the United States but is reached in this way, and as there are many simpletons in every community, responses of the character desired by the swindlers come in rapidly.
Letters come to him by the hundred, from simpletons who have "taken his bait," asking for his valuable recipe.
I pity those simpletonswho blame fortune and not themselves for their misfortunes.
These friends of yours must be simpletons indeed; they must have known that I had good reasons for sending the girl away, and should consequently have been on their guard.
The simpletons who squeeze Their extremities to please Mandarins, Would positively flinch From venturing to pinch Geraldine’s.
So, while the fanciful hours go by, I gayly reap what the simpletons sow.
True bards believe All able to achieve what they achieve-- That is, just nothing--in one point abide Profounder simpletons than all beside.
The sixteen who remain have so definitely proven themselves to be simpletons that I trust they will not resent my calling them such.
It is one of the largest of the Frankfort boats, and those hopeful simpletons doubtless imagine they can make their way through to Cologne with enough goods left to pay for the journey.
Says Aldina, 'There are those looking on, who know themselves to be swifter of foot than the racers, but are confounded with the simpletons that stare.
Simpletons show us, that a body can get along almost without a soul; but of a soul getting along without a body, we have no tangible and indisputable proof.
The simpletons--I can not blame them, so much the worse--the simpletons have turned the heads of the biggersimpletons who listened to them.
You would hardly believe, Belle, that though I offered at least ten thousand lines nearly as good as those to the booksellers in London, the simpletons were so blind to their interest as to refuse purchasing them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "simpletons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
