But I do not think he can be angry with me, now, because, in the most straightforward way, I come to the young lady's parents and tell them that I love their child.
He could not be made to own, as she had done in a straightforward way, that he had intended to set the law at defiance.
The four witnesses had told their tale in a straightforward way; and though they were, from their characters, not entitled to perfect credit, still their evidence had in no wise been shaken.
Donkeys are loaded with the heavy black goat-skins of water; there is laundry-work going on, and a good deal of straightforward love-making under the shade.
The ordinary rules of fairplay and straightforward conduct are forgotten at an election.
It was one of thosestraightforward {389} records which characterize Elder Woodruff's journal from beginning to end.
He was straightforward in all his dealings with his fellow man, and never shirked an obligation.
I was not the only one who gave him the straightforward facts; an eye-witness of the whole thing had spoken to him about it before I mentioned it.
A straightforward statement, my lad; but how that stolen property came to be concealed in your bed is a staggering question.
Ben was next called upon, and after a moment of faltering he told his story in a slow, distinct manner, making it straightforward and simple.
Now a just and straightforward defence must show either that the acts charged against him were not committed, or that having been committed, they are to the advantage of the city.
And now give your thoughts to the proof by which he is convicted on these points, and observe how straightforward it will be.
She was a good sort, straightforward and honest and direct, no nonsense in her, but she knew her way about, and a man could have a sort of pleasing, harmless flirtation to which she knew how to play up.
His straightforward nature was inclined to look back on the impression she had made on him at the supper party with a half-guilty sense of some sort of vague disloyalty he could not formulate.
Straightforward attentiveness is the attitude of most profit and enjoyment in society.
A lady should be straightforward in her greeting, never condescending to the coquettish mannerism of letting the eyes fall during the bow.
I am glad of it, or you would not have written so freely; though after all you could not have helped being like a sensible straightforward person.
Marian smiled at the ingenuity of the scheme, such as she would have been a great deal too awkward, as well as too straightforwardever to devise.
After all, the straightforward course was probably the best.
Either he was wrong to have espoused straightforward confession and atonement for her, or they were wrong in chasing him from that espousal.
For he was a man physiologically sane and healthy to the core, whose digestion and functions, strong, regular, and straightforward as the day, made calls upon him which would not be denied.
It was allstraightforward and outspoken, each seeming to say exactly what came into the head.
He thought him rather too scrupulous and straightforward a man to be his lawyer, but he admired him greatly, nevertheless; and, although he said nothing about it, secretly congratulated himself upon the way things were going.
No; it's too straightforward a way for you,--ever the roundabout way for you.
It's a simple question," said the Marquis; "am I to think it needs toostraightforward an answer for John Splendid to give it?
Your clan has not the reputation of guile for nothing, and if you refused straightforward honest outside counsel sometimes, it was not for the want of its offering.
In the question of the grazing lands his peevish asperity is notorious and in Mr Cuffe's hearing brought upon him from an indignant rancher a scathing retort couched in terms as straightforward as they were bucolic.
Depend and rely on it, I am straightforward with you--I always speak the truth.
He has no ornament, he does not seem to aim at anything more than the simplest and most straightforward presentation of his views.
That friend of yours has been trying to secure you for the Government, and you were too straightforward to be entrapped?
That's what most of them need here," snorted straightforward Merle.
Men of the straightforward English type like Rossett are apt to be a little uncertain in their judgment of what is seemly in their womenkind, and what is the reverse.
