The letter ends with a delightful burst of ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Bart's off-handed ingenuousness had completely disarmed the men. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
That's been the problem with her - this raging dis-ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary To Supporters: Because Of You, The Hardest Glass Ceiling Has "18 Million Cracks In It"] Reference
Her wide-eyed ingenuousness making me more suspicious, she answered. From Wordnik.com. [Question of Comfort] Reference
Unhappily, ingenuousness is disappearing, even in the rural districts. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
To frankness let us add ingenuousness, in our solicitude as educators. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
"Well, maybe a little," admitted Joe, smiling at the lad's ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference
I could not help smiling at the ingenuousness of the captain's reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow] Reference
Such unaffected simplicity and ingenuousness is most refreshing to witness. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
He is a man of clear head, of courage, fortitude, and simple ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference
Her countenance is Madonna-like in purity, ingenuousness, and self-abnegation. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference
“What ready cash?” he finally inquired, with a sort of wily ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Reluctant Witness]
His smooth, bronzed boyish face showed ingenuousness and candour in every line. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
Morbid scepticism was succeeded in me by too much kindliness and ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
His eyes were large, for ingenuousness, and wide-set, for greater peripheral vision. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
I do think that Lieberman has an appealing, sort of ingenuousness, a nice sense of humor. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Spin Room: Vice Presidential Candidates Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman Fire Their Best Shots - October 6, 2000] Reference
He had rather a pleasant face, Podmore thought, a little dull perhaps in its ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man for Himself] Reference
He was pleased with his amiableness, his correct character, his frankness, and ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Barnes New Testament Notes] Reference
The Ujurrians are a physically large ursinoid race, paragons of ingenuousness by our standards. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx In Flux]
It was an innocent bit of flattery, and Ingram smiled good-naturedly at the boy's ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
Edgar looked at her, to read how much of this was real ingenuousness, how much affected simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876] Reference
Upon this Candide started back, and, with his usual ingenuousness, said, “Are you happy, Mr. Abbé?”. From Wordnik.com. [Candide] Reference
I was with him the other day in Ohio, and he's just -- there's this ingenuousness to him that's appealing. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: What's So Funny About Election 2000? - September 29, 2000] Reference
St. Aubert was pleased with him: ‘Here is the real ingenuousness and ardour of youth,’ said he to himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Mysteries of Udolpho] Reference
They uproot ingenuousness from life, from thought, from education, and pursue it even to the region of dreams. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
Coquetry was as foreign to the ingenuousness of her nature, as to the dignity of all her early maternal precepts. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
It was for that reason that at the outset we committed so many blunders -- either through ignorance or ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [CASTRO COMMENTS ON CZECHOSLOVAK CRISIS] Reference
He is a bundle of the best nerves I ever saw … a man of clear head, of courage, fortitude and simple ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
Steno's white gown upon the terrace, while radiant Maud explained his unexpected return with her usual ingenuousness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
At once Sir Charles narrated to her all that he had heard, requesting her with ingenuousness to inform him whether it was true. From Wordnik.com. [The Curate and His Daughter, a Cornish Tale] Reference
"The story begins with my birth," said Nicholas, with a reckless ingenuousness which was a large part of his host's entertainment. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
How merrily she prattles with charming ingenuousness, while he watches her expressive features, a new strange thrill at his heart. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
Scooter asked with wide-eyed ingenuousness and an expression that revealed his admiration for his father's amateur musical skills. From Wordnik.com. [Pscooter and Pskipper Get Psychedelic in Pseattle] Reference
She is the poet, the interpreter of her own grace and ingenuousness, the spinner of the mystery in which her wish to please arrays itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
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