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  • Polite and worthless promises maybe, but Farmer in the role of supplicant seemed artfully ingenuous.†   (source)
  • One of them looked up, the youngest There was a huge cold-sore at the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were still ingenuous.†   (source)
  • He was thirty-eight years old, at least that is what he admitted to, and he felt that he had finally found paradise on earth, where he could settle into some sort of easygoing business with a few ingenuous partners.†   (source)
  • Luciana fled mirthfully along the sidewalk in her high white wedgies, pulling Yossarian along in tow with the same lusty and ingenuous zeal she had displayed in the dance hall the night before and at every moment since.†   (source)
  • She had looked at him with the most ingenuous expression he had ever seen.†   (source)
  • Although he'd played ingenuous, he'd known right away what the man was getting at.†   (source)
  • But I must apologize to you and tell you that I betrayed the trust you so ingenuously profferred me.†   (source)
  • Indeed the horror of it was how central we were, how ingenuously and not we comprised the larger processes, feeding ourselves and one another to the all-consuming engine of the war.†   (source)
  • And what was charming in the blond ingenuousness of Aron became suspicious and unpleasant in the dark-faced, slit-eyed Cal.†   (source)
  • Did you ever know a more harmless, ingenuous, delightful young man in your life?   (source)
  • My experienced commander seemed in one searching glance to read my thoughts on my ingenuous face.   (source)
  • This ingenuous remark confirmed Miss Maxwell's opinion of Rebecca as a girl who could hear the truth and profit by it.   (source)
  • The face of the old man was stern, hard-featured, and forbidding; that of the young one, open, handsome, and ingenuous.   (source)
  • The Skimberrys were of a different social class than I and one of the year's miracles was my introduction to their way of life, to their complete and ingenuous acceptance of me as a friend, and to the perspective they gave me of society and the men on top as viewed from the bottom.†   (source)
  • "You haven't seen everything yet," said the usher ingenuously.†   (source)
  • "Well now, no, I haven't," confessed Matthew ingenuously.†   (source)
  • "No, I'm not married!" replied the prince, smiling at the ingenuousness of this little feeler.†   (source)
  • He was glad to see her pleasure, and the ingenuousness of her conversation amused and touched him.†   (source)
  • "I don't even know why you might be jealous," he said ingenuously.†   (source)
  • It was her first gaiety in London for so long that she enjoyed everything ingenuously.†   (source)
  • And, quite ingenuously, he clasped her waist.†   (source)
  • He had possessed so few women of such ingenuousness.†   (source)
  • Mr Sparkler might have replied with ingenuousness, 'My life, I have nothing to say.'†   (source)
  • "Do you know the impression your words give me?" she said ingenuously.†   (source)
  • "Only this last week, father," said Eppie, ingenuously, "since Aaron talked to me about it."†   (source)
  • Svidrigailov muttered ingenuously, as though he, too, were puzzled.†   (source)
  • Barbier speaks ingenuously of these things.†   (source)
  • Why doesn't my brother like you?" the Countess ingenuously added.†   (source)
  • Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, not of the woman, but of the poet.†   (source)
  • Cosette's whole person was ingenuousness, ingenuity, transparency, whiteness, candor, radiance.†   (source)
  • "At what?" said Milady, with the utmost ingenuousness.†   (source)
  • Ingenuousness sometimes unconsciously penetrates deep.†   (source)
  • Thanks to these children, there was, among so many austere hours, one hour of ingenuousness.†   (source)
  • Observe how ingenuously he underlines certain words, and how crudely he glosses over his hidden thoughts.†   (source)
  • "I must return to camp, to quarters, for roll call," he cries in despair at an ingenuousness that only doubles the burden his heart already feels.†   (source)
  • He was thin, rather frail-looking, with a boyish ingenuousness and a slightly foolish smile, despite his seven children.†   (source)
  • Riviere, not wholly ingenuously, undertook to explain to Jimmy the triumph of the French mechanicians.†   (source)
  • In my ingenuousness I hoped that Sylvester would marry Lena, and thus give all the country girls a better position in the town.†   (source)
  • Left to herself, Lucy would have told her mother and her lover ingenuously, and it would have remained a little thing.†   (source)
  • Yet he never saw her, or exchanged a word with her, without feeling that, after all, May's ingenuousness almost amounted to a gift of divination.†   (source)
  • In his ingenuousness he doubted her story as little as he doubted what he read in books, and he was angry that such wonderful things never happened to him.†   (source)
  • He had rather a young face, the ingenuousness of which was marred by the penetrating green eyes, fringed with long dark eyelashes.†   (source)
  • …came when he would find himself in the same state of indifference with regard to Odette, he would then understand that it was his jealousy alone which had led him to find something atrocious, unpardonable, in this desire (after all, so natural a desire, springing from a childlike ingenuousness and also from a certain delicacy in her nature) to be able, in her turn, when an occasion offered, to repay the Verdurins for their hospitality, and to play the hostess in a house of her own.†   (source)
  • The type of boy for whom she really cared and was always seeking was one who could sweep away all such psuedo-ingenuousness and superiorities in her and force her, even against herself, to yield to him.†   (source)
  • That's what's called ingenuousness.†   (source)
  • Granted, she did not have to deal here with Herr Lodovico's fundamental repudiation of her character, and the essentials for conversation were somewhat more favorable, so that the two of them, Clavdia and the caustic little man, would sometimes move away from the others to talk: about books, about questions of political philosophy, where they found agreement in radical answers; and Hans Castorp sometimes ingenuously joined in as well.†   (source)
  • Yes, it was exactly like Lena, I told her; a comely woman, a trifle too plump, in a hat a trifle too large, but with the old lazy eyes, and the old dimpled ingenuousness still lurking at the corners of her mouth.†   (source)
  • "It's most awfully jolly having Miss Bart back," said Lord Hubert, in his mild deliberate voice; and Mrs. Bry added ingenuously: "I daresay the Duchess will dine with us, now that Lily's here."†   (source)
  • This is an excess of ingenuousness or of malice—you ought to know better than anyone which word best fits the case.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XX Edmund's first object the next morning was to see his father alone, and give him a fair statement of the whole acting scheme, defending his own share in it as far only as he could then, in a soberer moment, feel his motives to deserve, and acknowledging, with perfect ingenuousness, that his concession had been attended with such partial good as to make his judgment in it very doubtful.†   (source)
  • He had said these things in a loud, rapid, hoarse voice, with a sort of irritated and savage ingenuousness.†   (source)
  • It would be a unique delight to wait and watch for the melodious fragments in which her heart and soul came forth so directly and ingenuously.†   (source)
  • Nor did his blushes and awkwardness take away from it: she was pleased with these healthy tokens of the young gentleman's ingenuousness.†   (source)
  • The child-like ingenuousness with which his visitor spoke, her modest fearlessness, her truthfulness which put all artifice aside, her entire forgetfulness of herself in her earnest quiet holding to the object with which she had come; all this, together with her reliance on his easily given promise — which in itself shamed him — presented something in which he was so inexperienced, and against which he knew any of his usual weapons would fall so powerless; that not a word could he…†   (source)
  • Harriet bore the intelligence very well—blaming nobody—and in every thing testifying such an ingenuousness of disposition and lowly opinion of herself, as must appear with particular advantage at that moment to her friend.†   (source)
  • Mitya went on with the same confiding ingenuousness, drying his face and hands on the towel, and putting on his coat.†   (source)
  • And then he spoke so ingenuously and sincerely of the sacrifice he made in withdrawing himself for a time from Ada, and of the earnestness with which he aspired—as in thought he always did, I know full well—to repay her love, and to ensure her happiness, and to conquer what was amiss in himself, and to acquire the very soul of decision, that he made my heart ache keenly, sorely.†   (source)
  • An idiot she could not properly be termed, her mind being just enough enfeebled to lose most of those traits that are connected with the more artful qualities, and to retain its ingenuousness and love of truth.†   (source)
  • As this remark, a sort of half interrogatory, was made, Pathfinder looked behind him; and, though the most partial friend could scarcely term his sunburnt and hard features handsome, even Mabel thought his smile attractive, by its simple ingenuousness and the uprightness that beamed in every lineament of his honest countenance.†   (source)
  • I should not have mentioned the subject, though very anxious to know her sentiments; but I had not been in the room five minutes before she began introducing it with all that openness of heart, and sweet peculiarity of manner, that spirit and ingenuousness which are so much a part of herself.†   (source)
  • But he went on in the same way, jocosely, ingenuously: "I've seen less of you than I might, but it's better than nothing.†   (source)
  • Deerslayer, on the other hand, manifested a very different temper, proving by the moderation of his language, the fairness of his views, and the simplicity of his distinctions, that he possessed every disposition to hear reason, a strong, innate desire to do justice, and an ingenuousness that was singularly indisposed to have recourse to sophism to maintain an argument; or to defend a prejudice.†   (source)
  • He would have given all he possessed on earth could the last three minutes be recalled; but he was too frank by disposition and too much accustomed to deal ingenuously by his friend to think a moment of attempting further concealment, or of any evasion of the explanation that he knew was about to be demanded.†   (source)
  • It was revolting to one so sincere and natural, so pure of heart, and so much disposed to ingenuousness as Mabel Dunham, to practise deception on a friend like June; but her own father's life was at stake, her companion would receive no positive injury, and she had feelings and interests directly touching herself which would have removed greater scruples.†   (source)
  • "But am I not your nearest relative?" demanded Milady, with a tone of the most touching ingenuousness.†   (source)
  • He was a peasant, but he had been a notary, which added trickery to his cunning, and penetration to his ingenuousness.†   (source)
  • Ingenuousness has taken refuge there.†   (source)
  • He was at that period of life when the mind of men who think is composed, in nearly equal parts, of depth and ingenuousness.†   (source)
  • An exquisite grace, for beauty enhanced by ingenuousness is ineffable, and nothing is so adorable as a dazzling and innocent creature who walks along, holding in her hand the key to paradise without being conscious of it.†   (source)
  • Jean Valjean laid a host of ambushes for him; he changed his hour, he changed his bench, he forgot his handkerchief, he came alone to the Luxembourg; Marius dashed headlong into all these snares; and to all the interrogation marks planted by Jean Valjean in his pathway, he ingenuously answered "yes."†   (source)
  • She was evidently quite young, not more than nineteen, and as ingenuous as a child.†   (source)
  • "But why do you want to keep the embryo below par?" asked an ingenuous student.†   (source)
  • Brent's wide ingenuous face was puzzled and mildly indignant.†   (source)
  • A shell-less little creature, I think he thought me; so sheltered, in my room, compared with him; an ingenuous, eager listener to his school stories; without any experience of my own with which to cap his; but not passive; on the contrary, bubbling, inquisitive, restless, contradicting.†   (source)
  • I looked after him for a long while as he disappeared into the distance along the leafless avenue with the good-natured and slightly comic gait of an ingenuous idealist.†   (source)
  • Amory felt strangely ingenuous and made no attempt to kiss her.†   (source)
  • He was, however, anticipated by the voice of the ingenuous and youthful Alice.†   (source)
  • And she smiled with a joy that was at once proud and ingenuous.†   (source)
  • I was ingenuous and young, and I thought so.†   (source)
  • O yes," he went on with ingenuous enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • He is a young, ingenuous, pure man who seems virtuous; him there are means of destroying.†   (source)
  • Grantaire replied:— "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous.†   (source)
  • There exist ingenuous bourgeois, of whom it might be said, that they have a "stealable" air.†   (source)
  • But what she had lost in ingenuous grace, she gained in pensive and serious charm.†   (source)
  • At our wedding, ingenuous child!†   (source)
  • He rose with a start, his ingenuous face looking as though it had been dipped in crimson: even the reddish tint in his beard seemed to deepen.†   (source)
  • He had an idea that she knew how to take care of herself a good deal better than the ingenuous May imagined.†   (source)
  • But discussion was a habit now, thanks to his democratic mentors—both were basically democratic, although the one struggled not to be—and he got caught up in one of his own ingenuous commentaries.†   (source)
  • This struck from all three allusions to Edgar Poe and Jules Verne, and such platitudes as naturally rise to the lips of the most intelligent when they are talking against time, and dealing with a new invention in which it would seem ingenuous to believe too soon; and the question of the telephone carried them safely back to the big house.†   (source)
  • He admired her courage, her optimism, her impudent defiance of fate; she had a little philosophy of her own, ingenuous and practical.†   (source)
  • With visitors from Ivy and Cottage and Tiger Inn he played the "nice, unspoilt, ingenuous boy" very much at ease and quite unaware of the object of the call.†   (source)
  • "Why, no, it is hardly the same," remarked Gavrila Ardalionovitch, with an air of ingenuous surprise.†   (source)
  • He was not so ingenuous as in those days which now seemed so long ago at Heidelberg, and, beginning to take a more deliberate interest in humanity, he was inclined to examine and to criticise.†   (source)
  • Yet his smile, in spite of its sweetness, was a little thin, if I may so call it, and showed his teeth too evenly; his gaze though decidedly good-humoured and ingenuous, was a trifle too inquisitive and intent to be altogether agreeable.†   (source)
  • As the Teton spoke, he pointed towards the tents of Ishmael, which were in plain sight, and then he paused, to await the effect of his words on the mind of his ingenuous foe.†   (source)
  • An ingenuous, transparent life was disclosed, as if the flow of her existence could be seen passing within her.†   (source)
  • A man's body is as the shell, or the tablet, of his soul, as he is reserved or ingenuous, overflowing or self-contained.†   (source)
  • The face of the old man was stern, hard-featured, and forbidding; that of the young one, open, handsome, and ingenuous.†   (source)
  • His eyes, set in a large and ingenuous face, seemed to me very intelligent; they were of a dreamy sea-blue.†   (source)
  • This question produced a singular collision between mortification and correct feeling, in the bosom of the youth, that was easily to be traced in the workings of his ingenuous countenance.†   (source)
  • " "To which Harold Skimpole would reply, you know," he returned in his gayest manner and with his most ingenuous smile, " 'Upon my life I have not the least idea!†   (source)
  • I am delighted to meet with you, my young friend, for I think an ingenuous mind, such as I doubt not yours must be, will exhibit all the advantages of a settled doctrine and devout liturgy.†   (source)
  • An American girl scarcely ever displays that virginal bloom in the midst of young desires, or that innocent and ingenuous grace which usually attends the European woman in the transition from girlhood to youth.†   (source)
  • As Dantes spoke, Villefort gazed at his ingenuous and open countenance, and recollected the words of Renee, who, without knowing who the culprit was, had besought his indulgence for him.†   (source)
  • She had found her profit not in the gross device of borrowing money, but in the more refined idea of introducing one of her intimates to the young woman's fresh and ingenuous fortune.†   (source)
  • Every ingenuous and aspiring soul leaves the doctrine behind him in his own experience; and all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate.†   (source)
  • "I rejoice to hear so favorable and so ingenuous an account of my cousin Clifford," said the benevolent Judge.†   (source)
  • He was a stout man, of about two— or three-and-twenty, with an open, ingenuous countenance, a black, mild eye, and cheeks rosy and downy as an autumn peach.†   (source)
  • Each, in truth, felt that interest in the other which similarity of age, condition, mutual comeliness, and their novel situation would be likely to inspire in the young and ingenuous.†   (source)
  • Though to laugh at Mitya to his face was rather a risky proceeding, there was much laughter behind his back, especially in the tavern, at his own ingenuous public avowal that all he had got out of Grushenka by this "escapade" was "permission to kiss her foot, and that was the utmost she had allowed him."†   (source)
  • This incident damped the ingenuous youth's spirits, and no word of yea or nay could he be induced to utter during the rest of the drive.†   (source)
  • He was quite aware of this; indeed in some respects he was rather afraid of this ingenuous wife, whose imitative piety and native worldliness were equally sincere, who had nothing to be ashamed of, and whom he had married out of a thorough inclination still subsisting.†   (source)
  • There is a Diana flying in the air, but so excellent, so tender, so delicate, of so ingenuous an action, her hair so well coiffed and adorned with a crescent, her flesh so white, that she leads into temptation those who regard her too curiously.†   (source)
  • There was no necessity for any continuance of speech, and the fact that she did add more seemed to proceed from an unconscious desire to show unconcern by making a remark, which is noticeable in the ingenuous when they are acting by stealth.†   (source)
  • The reader need not be told the nature of the emotions which two youthful, ingenuous, and well-educated girls would experience at their escape from a death so horrid as the one which had impended over them, while they pursued their way in silence along the track on the side of the mountain; nor how deep were their mental thanks to that Power which had given them their existence, and which had not deserted them in their extremity; neither how often they pressed each other's arms as the…†   (source)
  • He saw, I suppose, that I could not help smiling at the simplicity of this reply; and added, with a smile upon his own ingenuous face: 'Not, of course, but that my Sophy — pretty name, Copperfield, I always think?'†   (source)
  • "Tell me, son of my brother," returned the sage, avoiding the dark countenance of Le Subtil, and turning gladly to the more ingenuous features of Uncas, "has the stranger a conqueror's right over you?"†   (source)
  • She seemed to feel, after a bare look at Diggory Venn, that the man had come on a strange errand, and that he was not so mean as she had thought him; for her close approach did not cause him to writhe uneasily, or shift his feet, or show any of those little signs which escape an ingenuous rustic at the advent of the uncommon in womankind.†   (source)
  • But while her ingenuous disposition freely admitted the superiority of the strangers over the less brilliant attractions of the Dahcotah maidens, she had seen no reason to deprecate their advantages.†   (source)
  • He was much amused and interested when he heard this and said, "No, really?" with ingenuous simplicity.†   (source)
  • The representative of the bear had certainly been an entire stranger to the delicious emotions of the lover while his arms encircled his mistress; and he was, perhaps, a stranger also to the nature of that feeling of ingenuous shame that oppressed the trembling Alice.†   (source)
  • Pointing to the sweet countenance that was beaming on her own, with a look of tenderness and commiseration, he paused, to allow his wife to contemplate a loveliness, which was quite as excellent to her ingenuous mind as it had proved dangerous to the character of her faithless husband.†   (source)
  • Women are said seldom to forgive those who slight their advances, but this high spirited and impetuous girl entertained no shadow of resentment, then or ever, against the fair dealing and ingenuous hunter.†   (source)
  • "If shame could cure me of my drowsiness, I should never close an eye again," said the uneasy youth, gazing at the ingenuous countenance of Alice, where, however, in its sweet solicitude, he read nothing to confirm his half-awakened suspicion.†   (source)
  • Taking a little more claret and dipping one of the cakes in it, he shook his head and smiled at Ada and me with an ingenuous foreboding that he never could be made to understand.†   (source)
  • The ingenuous Alice gazed at his free air and proud carriage, as she would have looked upon some precious relic of the Grecian chisel, to which life had been imparted by the intervention of a miracle; while Heyward, though accustomed to see the perfection of form which abounds among the uncorrupted natives, openly expressed his admiration at such an unblemished specimen of the noblest proportions of man.†   (source)
  • He was a handsome youth with an ingenuous face and a most engaging laugh; and after she had called him up to where we sat, he stood by us, in the light of the fire, talking gaily, like a light-hearted boy.†   (source)
  • It was done in the fond caressing manner of a woman, and it was scarcely possible that it should not obtain credit for sincerity with a young and ingenuous person of the same sex.†   (source)
  • He told Ada, in his most ingenuous way, that he had not come to make any secret inroad on the terms she had accepted (rather too implicitly and confidingly, he thought) from Mr. Jarndyce, that he had come openly to see her and to see me and to justify himself for the present terms on which he stood with Mr. Jarndyce.†   (source)
  • I wish I had never seen you!" cried d'Artagnan, with that ingenuous roughness which women often prefer to the affectations of politeness, because it betrays the depths of the thought and proves that feeling prevails over reason.†   (source)
  • At these moments all the honest and manly attachment of Pathfinder glowed in his ingenuous features, and his gaze at our heroine was such as the fondest parent might fasten on the child of his love.†   (source)
  • Mabel Dunham, though unsophisticated, like most of her countrywomen of that period, and ingenuous and frank as any warm-hearted and sincere-minded girl well could be, was not altogether without a feeling for the poetry of this beautiful earth of ours.†   (source)
  • The result was that the two parted, after a long dialogue, unconvinced, and distrustful of each other's motives, though the distrust of the guide, like all that was connected with the man, partook of his own upright, disinterested, and ingenuous nature.†   (source)
  • He disliked Muir, whose smooth-tongued courtesy was little in accordance with his own frank and ingenuous nature; but he had been shocked at his unexpected and violent death, though accustomed to similar scenes, and he had been surprised at the exposure of his treachery.†   (source)
  • The scout looked earnestly into the beautiful face of Mabel, which had flushed with the ardor and novelty of her sensations, and it was not possible to mistake the intense admiration that betrayed itself in every lineament of his ingenuous countenance.†   (source)
  • Mabel blushed at having inadvertently made an allusion that went beyond her father's reading, to say nothing of her uncle's dogmatism, and, perhaps, a little at the Pathfinder's simple, ingenuous earnestness; but she did not forbear the less to smile.†   (source)
  • This her quick feminine sagacity had early discovered; and perhaps she had occasionally thought there had mingled with his regard and friendship some of that manly tenderness which the ruder sex must be coarse, indeed, not to show on occasions to the gentler; but the idea that he seriously sought her for his wife had never before crossed the mind of the spirited and ingenuous girl.†   (source)
  • On the present occasion, her full blue eye reflected the feeling of sublimity that the scene excited, and her pleasant face was beaming with the pensive expression with which all deep emotions, even though they bring the most grateful pleasure, shadow the countenances of the ingenuous and thoughtful.†   (source)
  • What he had just seen was no longer the ingenuous and simple eye of a child; it was a mysterious gulf which had half opened, then abruptly closed again.†   (source)
  • The ingenuous police of the Restoration beheld the populace of Paris in too "rose-colored" a light; it is not so much of "an amiable rabble" as it is thought.†   (source)
  • In that defiling of condemned persons which is called human destiny, can two brows pass side by side, the one ingenuous, the other formidable, the one all bathed in the divine whiteness of dawn, the other forever blemished by the flash of an eternal lightning?†   (source)
  • As for the number and duration of their prayers we can convey no better idea of them than by quoting the ingenuous remark of one of them: "The prayers of the postulants are frightful, the prayers of the novices are still worse, and the prayers of the professed nuns are still worse."†   (source)
  • The person whom he now beheld was a tall and beautiful creature, possessed of all the most charming lines of a woman at the precise moment when they are still combined with all the most ingenuous graces of the child; a pure and fugitive moment, which can be expressed only by these two words,— "fifteen years."†   (source)
  • This ingenuous little soldier, yesterday a peasant of Bauce or Limousin, who prowls with his clasp-knife by his side, around the children's nurses in the Luxembourg garden, this pale young student bent over a piece of anatomy or a book, a blond youth who shaves his beard with scissors,—take both of them, breathe upon them with a breath of duty, place them face to face in the Carrefour Boucherat or in the blind alley Planche-Mibray, and let the one fight for his flag, and the other for…†   (source)
  • …he bowed to M. Madeleine with a look in which there was neither rancor, anger, nor distrust; he halted a few paces in the rear of the mayor's arm-chair, and there he stood, perfectly erect, in an attitude almost of discipline, with the cold, ingenuous roughness of a man who has never been gentle and who has always been patient; he waited without uttering a word, without making a movement, in genuine humility and tranquil resignation, calm, serious, hat in hand, with eyes cast down, and…†   (source)
  • The two children gazed with timid and stupefied respect on this intrepid and ingenious being, a vagabond like themselves, isolated like themselves, frail like themselves, who had something admirable and all-powerful about him, who seemed supernatural to them, and whose physiognomy was composed of all the grimaces of an old mountebank, mingled with the most ingenuous and charming smiles.†   (source)
  • I wrote him an ingenuous letter of acknowledgment, crav'd his forbearance a little longer, which he allow'd me, and as soon as I was able, I paid the principal with interest, and many thanks; so that erratum was in some degree corrected.†   (source)
  • …model; that the existence of such a society should be kept a secret, till it was become considerable, to prevent solicitations for the admission of improper persons, but that the members should each of them search among his acquaintance for ingenuous, well-disposed youths, to whom, with prudent caution, the scheme should be gradually communicated; that the members should engage to afford their advice, assistance, and support to each other in promoting one another's interests, business,…†   (source)
  • ...he gave her a most ingenuous account of everything that had befallen him since the moment of their separation.   (source)
    ingenuous = direct (without trying to present events in a manner that made him look better)
  • Did you imagine she would not apply them? or, speak ingenuously, did not you intend she should?†   (source)
  • _ To be sure we were glad enough to get rid of such wretched plagues; but yet honesty made us ingenuously represent to them, by what we ourselves had suffered, the certain destruction they were running into, either of being starved to death or murdered by the savages.†   (source)
  • The first, is from Numbers 11. where Moses not being able alone to undergoe the whole burthen of administring the affairs of the People of Israel, God commanded him to choose Seventy Elders, and took part of the spirit of Moses, to put it upon those Seventy Elders: by which it is understood, not that God weakened the spirit of Moses, for that had not eased him at all; but that they had all of them their authority from him; wherein he doth truly, and ingenuously interpret that place.†   (source)
  • We gave them twelve hatchets, and three or four knives; have taught them to build huts, make wooden spades, plant corn, make bread, breed tame goats and milk them, as likewise to make wicker work, in which I must ingenuously confess, they infinitely out do us, having made themselves several pretty necessaries and fancies, as baskets, sieves, bird-cages, and cupboards, as also stools, beds and couches, no less useful than delightful; and now they live the most innocent and inoffensive…†   (source)
  • I shall begin to fear you are very far gone indeed; and almost question whether you have dealt ingenuously with me.†   (source)
  • _ That is a classical line, young lady; and, being rendered into English, is, 'a lad of an ingenuous countenance, and of an ingenuous modesty;' for this was a virtue in great repute both among the Latins and Greeks.†   (source)
  • …to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their hist'ry in a nation's eyes, Their lot forbade: nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes confin'd; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, 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.†   (source)
  • He would never be able to imagine, while any source of information remained unexplored, that it was nothing more than an experiment upon the public credulity, dictated either by a deliberate intention to deceive, or by the overflowings of a zeal too intemperate to be ingenuous.†   (source)
  • You seem To be a gentleman, of ingenuous race:— I not profess it, but my fate hath been To be, where I have been consulted with, In this high kind, touching some great men's sons, Persons of blood, and honour.†   (source)
  • You may be sure I could not but agree with this kind and ingenuous proposal; and immediately I sent him an order to offer it to them, which he accordingly did; so that about eight months after, the ship being in that time returned, he gave me a satisfactory account, that they not only willingly accepted the offer, but that they had also remitted 33,000 pieces of eight to a correspondence of their own at Lisbon, in order to pay for the purchase.†   (source)
  • He added, that the survivors of my trustees were nervous of an ingenuous character; that my partner could witness my title, my name being registered in the country, by which means I should indefensibly recover considerable sums of money, but, answered, I, how could my trustees dispose of my effects, when I made you only my heir?†   (source)
  • …him daily thereby to discover whether he was deceitful in his thoughts and inclinations; but certainly he had nothing in him but what was consistent with the best principles, both as a religious Christian and a grateful friend; and indeed; I found every thing he said was ingenuous and innocent, that I had no room for suspicion, and, in spite of all uneasiness, he not only made me entirely his own again, but also caused me much to lament that I ever conceived one ill thought of him.†   (source)
  • First, I had some servants, whom I proposed to leave there, as they should appear willing; there were two carpenters, a smith, and a very ingenuous fellow who was Jack-of-all-trades; for he was not only a cooper by trade, but also he was dexterous at making wheels and hand-mills to grind corn, likewise a good turner, and a good pot-maker.†   (source)
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