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Sentences starting with simple

Simple as it was, an architect would have said that its proportions were nearly perfect. [9]
Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait, and count forty. [5]
Simple dresses are more difficult, far more difficult to make, and yet become a handsome woman better than rich and gaudy robes. [10]
Simple enough. [11]
Simple Anne! [9]

Sentences ending with simple

Nearly any person would have said to M. Bourget: "Oh, that is very simple. [5]
Like most inspirations worth anything, it was very simple. [9]
But the explanation was simple. [5]
If the problem was new, it was simple. [6]
She has a very sweet voice; rather hesitates in choosing her expressions, but when chosen they seem without an effort admirable, and just befitting the occasion; there is nothing overstrained, but perfectly simple. [14]
His voice was very simple. [11]
The buildings, begun under straitened circumstances, were more than simple. [2]
Nearer and nearer to Rostov came that sun shedding beams of mild and majestic light around, and already he felt himself enveloped in those beams, he heard his voice, that kindly, calm, and majestic voice that was yet so simple! [2]
His success, modest though it were, had been too simple. [9]
Then I smiled, the affair was so ridiculously simple. [9]

Short sentences using simple

Five simple, happy years--then war. [9]
Such a simple thing? [6]
The answer is simple. [7]
The process was simple. [5]
The case was simple. [5]
The dinner was simple. [4]
It is very simple. [4]
And they are simple. [2]
It would be simple. [11]
It is so simple! [4]

Sentences containing simple two or more times

He is open to the convincing pleasures of the simple and unadorned life; he is satisfied with simple people. [11]
In that old time it was a paradise for simplicity--it was a simple, simple life, cheap but comfortable, and full of sweetness, and there was nothing of this rage of modern civilization there at all. [5]
Or some simple Gretchen about whose simple story all the world is in sympathy! [4]

More example sentences with the word simple in them

Misrepresenting facts, in your simple innocence, has damaged your reputation with the soulless usurper. [5]
I will give you the law, briefly: descendible estates among us are of two kinds, estates in fee simple and estates in fee tail. [9]
These rules, as you see, were quite simple and clear. [5]
What a fool you are, my simple king! [11]
Have we learned yet the simple art of easy enjoyment? [4]
So I am writing this as a simple citizen. [5]
Her simple bedroom would have suited a prince who loved floriculture, quite as well as a princess. [10]
A simple Greek would be more welcome to me than this son of a mighty monarch. [10]
In natural, simple words, the learned man, skilled in the art of language, represented to the imperial widower how little reason he had to mourn his devout wife. [10]
And these simple words, her look, and the expression on her face which accompanied them, formed for two months the subject of inexhaustible memories, interpretations, and happy meditations for Pierre. [2]
Miss R. P., with that repugnance to ostentation in dress which is so peculiar to her, was attired in a simple white lace collar, fastened with a neat pearl-button solitaire. [5]
Speaking thickly and with a faraway look in his shining eyes, he told the whole story of his life: his marriage, Natasha's love for his best friend, her betrayal of him, and all his own simple relations with her. [2]
These simple creatures, whose thoughts are not taken up, like those of educated people, with the care of a great museum of dead phrases, are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. [6]
How this brother, whose temper was very mild and quiet and retiring--such as Mr Abel's--was greatly beloved by the simple people among whom he dwelt, who quite revered the Bachelor (for so they called him), and had every one experienced his charity and benevolence. [12]
The simple figures whose inmost being I have endeavored to reveal to the reader fill the canvas of a picture where, in the dark background, rolls the flowing ocean of the world's history. [10]
The whole family, whom he had formerly judged severely, now seemed to him to consist of excellent, simple, and kindly people. [2]
A young surgeon who was at Sudley Church, laboring among the wounded of Bull Run, tells me they had nothing but water for dressing, and he (being also doux de sel) was astonished to see how well the wounds did under that simple treatment. [3]
And whereas I, who am but a poor and simple serving man, have never been fain to set my heart on one only maid, no less is to be looked for in my gracious master, who is rich and of noble birth. [10]
Scarcely above a whisper she replied: "Of course he might say that, but how, oh, how should we simple folk, he and I, be fitted for these high places--yet? [11]
The simple inscription, which speaks volumes to those who knew him, was cut after the Revolution. [9]
Of the causes which lead to the victory of civilised nations, some are plain and simple, others complex and obscure. [1]
From the time when he could barely handle tools until he attained his majority, Lincoln's life was that of a simple farm laborer, poorly clad, housed, and fed, at work either on his father's wretched farm or hired out to neighboring farmers. [7]
The Egyptians knew what a monument should be, simple, noble, durable. [6]
The people's minds were tuned to a high pitch and this was too simple and needlessly comprehensible--it was what any one of them might have said and therefore was what an ukase emanating from the highest authority should not say. [2]
Cheer and goodwill were everywhere, for a fine harvest was in view, and this feast-day always brought gladness and simple revelling. [11]
It may be well to extend the same caution to cases of simple peritonitis. [3]
As she got well her help diminished the strain on her two friends, and in the beginning of March a call came to the widow which, if she followed it, must give their simple existence a new aspect. [10]
In this memorandum--which was written many years afterwards--we read the simple story of his love: "We saw each other every day, and I became excessively attached to her. [4]
What the gift was to announce she read on the paper accompanying it, which contained the following simple lines: "The iron rude, when shaped by fire and blows, Delights our eyes as a most beauteous rose. [10]
In David it was the outcome of his faith, in Nahoum it was the outcome of his philosophy, a simple, fearless fatalism. [11]
But the explanation was simple enough. [4]
Such a victim was good-hearted, simple natured young Yates (I use a fictitious name, but the real name began, as this one does, with a Y). [5]
The simple soul was evidently not long from her mother-land, and spoke with sweet uncertainty of dialect. [6]
Yet their talk was ever of simple subjects, of everyday life about them, now and then of politics, occasionally of the events of the world filtered to them through vast tracts of country. [11]
And presently it was dinner time and "Karl" arrived--a slender young fellow with a marvelous head and a noble eye--and he was as simple and natural, and as beautiful in spirit as his wife was. [5]
In fact, it was after the simple strangers had left the government care that March feared their woes might begin; and he would have liked the government to follow each of them to his home, wherever he meant to fix it within our borders. [8]
The unexpected gift was accepted with pleasure, and when he thanked her eagerly and with simple heartiness, she interrupted him with the assurance that in Alexandria art was not yet being borne to the grave. [10]
She was fresh, volatile, without affectation or pride, and had a temperament responsive to every phase of life's simple interests. [11]
Nobody expects chivalric virtues and the accompanying expenditure from this simple fellow; yet he practises them, and, when he once opens his hand, people stare at him as they do at flying fish and the hen that lays a golden egg. [10]
And for a very simple reason: I have read the morning paper. [5]
A common and very simple reason for this disappointment is that most of us overrate our capacity. [6]
It is a very simple question. [5]
This is a very simple proposition,--a very plain and naked one. [7]
Their conversation was very simple and unimportant. [2]
It was all very simple and pleasant and sociable. [5]
There is something very simple and pleasant about the following, which, in Philadelphia, seems to be the usual form for consumptives of long standing. [5]
It was all very simple and horrible. [2]
It was a very lovely family picture; a pretty house, surrounded by attractive scenery; scholarship, refinement, simple elegance, giving distinction to a home which to us seemed a pattern of all we could wish to see beneath an English roof. [6]
Just see who ventures--but to be sure any one has a right to knock, for at Lochias I am not the Emperor, but a simple private gentleman. [10]
His name was Veit Spiesz, and she had heard her father say that the scribe was the son of a simple lute-player and could hardly earn enough to live. [10]
It was, as usual, a simple meal, and yet he could only swallow a few mouthfuls, for everything had a bitter taste. [10]
It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now. [5]
It will explain us to each other, it will unriddle many riddles, it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now. [5]
Between him and us the issue is distinct, simple, and inflexible. [7]
Not one of us ever thought of the simple device of half-soling himself with a stove-lid. [5]
His simple but upright mind felt that she was right, so far as he was concerned, and she was more beautiful in her anger than he had seen her since the brilliant days of her youthful pride. [10]
She gave herself up to a sweet and simple sense of pride in the deed she had done for him, disturbed but slightly by the chances of discovery, and the remembrance of the match that showed her face at Archangel's Rise. [11]
It is made up of very simple details--just grass, and trees, and shrubs, and roads, and hedges, and gardens, and houses, and vines, and churches, and castles, and here and there a ruin--and over it all a mellow dream-haze of history. [5]
The old simple untutored sympathy was in her face. [11]
So simple, so unpretending a locality, to be the scene of so mighty an event! [5]
The capitalist, overbearing, tyrannical, hearing a few, simple truths in his own house from Peter--her Peter. [9]
So abstruse and twisted were some of Mr. Douglas's doctrines that a genius alone might put them into simple words, for the common people. [9]
Is it not true that the young man of average ability will find it as much as he can do to fit himself for these simple duties? [3]
Let us not trouble ourselves about the psychological problems involved, problems which the first century interpreted in its own simple way. [9]
But the great triumph of the microscope as applied to anatomy has been in the resolution of the organs and the tissues into their simple constituent anatomical elements. [3]
Those who had traveled said that he had the manner of a preaching friar--the simple language, so refined and yet so homely and direct, the real, the inspired word, the occasional hastening torrent of words. [4]
As a mental tour de force it is without a mate, it defies alike the simple, the concrete, and the occult. [5]
But he felt too that she needed greater wisdom, and he was ready to give it--a friendly characteristic of the big open spaces "where life is so simple and so large. [11]
Their--their doctrine is too simple, it does not seem as if life, the social order is to be so easily solved. [9]
It was made to walk among the trees and flowers, it is as simple as you please; and yet it has a distinction that makes you stare. [9]
He would have to use, not duplicity, but diplomacy, to play a kind of game; but this other side to his life, the side of love and home, should be simple, direct--all genuine and strong and true. [11]
Out of compliment to the Republic which he visited, he bore the simple title of Lord Renfrew. [9]
To attach something to the piston-rod to be moved by it, was a simple matter--crank and wheel. [5]
He cut away to the core of a matter, and having simple, fixed ideas, he was able to focus the talk, which had begun with hunting stories, and ended with the morality of duelling. [11]
They hadn't meant to take back the compliment, good simple souls, and didn't know they had done it. [5]
And he refused to take any pay for it, in a sort of surprise that such a simple act of hospitality should have any commercial value. [4]
Jeff gave prosperity to Stone's Landing and navigation to Goose Run, and the toast was washed down with gusto, in the simple fluid of corn; and with the return compliment that a rail road was a good thing, and that Jeff Thompson was no slouch. [5]
Strangers were taken to see it, as it rose in its simple grandeur. [4]
You have only to open your own Bible at the ninth chapter of St. John's Gospel, and you will find that the logic of a restored patient was very simple then, as it is now, and very hard to deal with. [3]
I beg leave to offer this in the simple language befitting all sincere exploits of a geographical character. [4]
It seemed ungenerous to meet her simple honesty by such obvious repartee, but he held on to see where the trail would lead. [11]
So he grew to love the simple people there, but little did he foresee that he was to end his life among them! [9]
I was going to leave the simple reader to wonder over this, taking it as an unexplained marvel. [6]
Let me try to illustrate the two systems in a simple and homely way calculated to bring the idea within the grasp of the ignorant and unintelligent. [5]
Tears forced themselves to his eyes as he held the watch, which he opened absently to read the simple inscription I had put there. [9]
Angele's heart fluttered to her mouth, but the soft, simple music helped her, and she began with eyes bent upon the ground, her linked fingers clasping and unclasping slowly. [11]
I took her to her first assembly, where her simple and unassuming ways had made her an instant favourite; and her face, which had the beauty of dignity and repose even so early in life, gained her ample attention. [9]
I am disposed to echo that high but simple eulogium. [14]
Heliodora had gone to consult the sorceress in a simple but rich dress. [10]
All I desired to ask Mr. Bixby was the simple question whether he was ass enough to really imagine he was going to find that plantation on a night when all plantations were exactly alike and all the same color. [5]
Her ambition was to appear simple and superior to all worldly vanities; still, all she wore must be rich and costly, for she was here to do honor to her creed. [10]
The simple suggestion to a few friends of Mr. Emerson that an opportunity was now offered to be of service to him was all that was needed. [6]
Court proceedings make tiresome reading, and if those who have been over ours have not arrived at some notion of the simple and innocent method of the new Era of politics note dawning--they never will. [9]
She had not time to run, but she did what answered just as well; she promptly drew a lithe young willow bough athwart her white body with one hand, and then contemplated us with a simple and untroubled interest. [5]
The Bishop opened thus: "You are required now, to take the oath pure and simple, to answer truly all questions asked you. [5]
At the signal three men sprang up like magic out of the bowels of the boat beneath them, and scurried over the side; three as ripe knaves as ever cheated stocks and gallows, but simple knaves, unlike their master. [11]
Maria's gentle and thoughtful nature exerted a beneficial influence upon her, and she cheerfully welcomed Barbara, with her fresh face and simple, careful, helpful ways. [10]
He dismissed the thought, however, for this Cure was simple as man ever was made, straightforward as the most heretical layman might demand. [11]
At first we thought we could finish the story quite easily, and we set to work with confidence; but it soon began to appear that it was not a simple thing, but difficult and baffling. [5]
But nobody ever thought of so simple and common-sense a thing at that. [5]

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