The simplicity of description and curtness of detail gives the account its chief charm.
The impressionable doctor looked upon this forest sylph and doubted whether she was "One of those fairy shepherds and shepherdesses Who hereabouts live on simplicity and watercresses.
I think she is struggling with a desire to laugh at the quaint simplicity of the communal wardrobe of our shanty, as it is now displayed on our persons before her.
But the extraordinary mixture of grave intelligence and childish simplicity in him is perpetually leading to very quaint little incidents.
The same high character is due to Pococke and Sandys, writers whose simplicity of style and thought afford a voucher for the truth of their narratives.
His simplicityis sometimes without grace; the impressive--austere, and without due refinement.
Simplicity and imposing expression seem to have hitherto formed the principal objects of his pursuit; but the distinction between the simple and rude, the powerful and the exaggerated, is not always observed in the labours of the Dane.
Only men of the utmost simplicity can believe that the nature man knows can be changed into a purely logical nature.
Did he consider her rather confiding simplicity unbusinesslike?
Her gown of filmy black had the cachet of an exclusive house, the expensive simplicity that serves so well as a background for wonderful jewels.
The doctor says you may stay half an hour," she told him with friendly simplicity of manner.
His sublime confidence was as convincing as his simplicity was reassuring.
But of this one daughter the nomadic widow makes much to the community; and especially calls attention to her simplicity and absolute ignorance of the evils so familiar to the girls of the present day.
Fox conversed little; but at his own house in the country, with his intimate friends, he would talk on for ever, with all the openness and simplicity of a child.
But 'to his intimate friends, his peculiarities added an inexpressible charm to his conversation, while they displayed in the most interesting light the artless simplicity of his heart.
The grave old man, in the stateliness and simplicity of his solitary life, had been to his youthful imagination a solemn and sacred figure.
She had been his elder by a few years, and he younger than his age by reason of his innocent simplicity of nature and his delicacy of body.
Marie Louise had been brought up, as all German girls of rank were then brought up, in quiet simplicity and utter innocence.
She had dressed always in the simplicity of the school-room.
The narration of the priest is dreadful in its simplicity and minuteness of detail.
Much of the simplicity of Christ was discernible in his behaviour.
I have written to dear Mr. Orchard,[274] as well as to you, out of the simplicity of my heart.
May God give you to see and follow the simplicity of the blessed Jesus!
If it be made instrumental towards the convicting of any one sinner, or confirming any one saint, I shall not be solicitous about the censures that may be passed, either on the simplicity of the style, or on the youth of the author.
Truthfulness in manners gives distinction and dignity in all classes of society; truthfulness gives that simplicity of manners which is one of the special graces of royalty, and also of an unspoiled and especially a Catholic peasantry.
This is happily disappearing, simplicity and restraint are regaining their own, at least in the best teaching for girls.
Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life, and the very meaning of the simple life is the laying aside of many things which tend to grow by habit into necessities.
There was a simplicity about Garstin's methods which was excused in some degree by his fame.
Yet, Morris could unbend, with greatsimplicity and feeling.
His simplicity of character and hurried expression often led him into absurdity, and he became in some degree the butt of the company.
The points most admired are extreme simplicity and unity of design, combined with very unusual richness.
The price of these two garments alone would equal the whole of Claire's yearly salary, but it had the effect of making the wearer look clumsy and middle-aged compared with the graceful simplicity of the other's French-cut costume.
As for Miss Pocahontas Boswell who arrived here--but how put into words that simplicity which is not simplicity at all, about her amber draperies?
She had been pleased by the simplicity of the two thick, black waves which lay across the clear paleness of her forehead, like dark velvet on cream-white silk.
For all their simplicitythey show the beginnings of a shrewd observation, of delicate description, and above all of compact narrative where no words are wasted.
The Simplicity of Christ's Teachings, set forth in Sermons.
They think that simplicity demands this lengthy discussion of every trivial matter.
Happily, the third is admirably suited to the purpose, combining, as it does, the comprehensiveness of eight with the simplicity of two.
And it is in this character that he now comes before us in the volume which is well entitled "The Simplicity of Christ's Teachings.
She had hesitated many days between thesimplicity of white chiffon and lilies of the valley, and the magnificence of brocaded satin in which a glittering thread of silver was interwoven.
For her sake they had been content with the simplicity of chiffon and white lace hats, and she stood among them lustrous as some angelic being.
He spoke with the simplicity of one who knows, with the assurance of one who has seen, with the certainty and clearness of one for whom doubt does not exist.
Well, that is very strange,' said the mulberry man, with great simplicity of manner.
The Prefect, on the contrary, aimed at simplicity and liked solitude.
