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Example sentences for "artlessly"

Lexicographically close words:
artists; artium; artizan; artizans; artless; artlessness; arton; artow; arts; artus
  1. The watchful Dona Maria, observing that her child could eat nothing, artlessly inquired the cause.

  2. Even the Dona Maria grew artlessly gay, appearing to forget that the grandmother might soon awaken, to be cared for like an infant, and that Christmas was now but a colorless counterfeit of years past.

  3. It was owing to her reduced circumstances that the proud Dona Maria had received under her roof Marjorie and myself, for she loved not the Americans; but, as she told me artlessly one day, "Only the Americans now have gold.

  4. Ah, my dear, I don't care for their horrible vulgar jokes," Adam Verver almost artlessly urged.

  5. Never has the Nativity been so gloriously set forth, nor, it may be said, more artlessly and simply expressed.

  6. She said the wickedest things with the most simple unaffected air when in this mood, and would take care artlessly to apologize for her blunders, so that all the world should know that she had made them.

  7. It has been said that our honest and dear old friend used to perform on the flute in private; Glorvina insisted upon having duets with him, and Lady O'Dowd would rise and artlessly quit the room when the young couple were so engaged.

  8. Denis was spell-bound; the dose, he artlessly imagined, was enough to kill a horse.

  9. But she took them from his hands and raising them high above her head, danced back to the mirror, and stood gazing at her own image, as artlessly as a lily bends over its shadow in a crystal pool.

  10. Beyond sat a pair of humble lovers, artlessly holding each other by the hand, a sombre spinster eating peppermints out of a paper bag, and an old gentleman taking his preparatory nap behind a yellow bandanna.

  11. He went quite artlessly and by instinct wherever he might have the chance to inhale admiring incense.

  12. That is what she meant, I suppose, by speaking so artlessly of what she called your compassion, and mine.

  13. His manner of speaking of his family was deliciously droll; he yielded his confidences as artlessly as a child.

  14. Happily, the concentrated fire of that secret passion revealed itself artlessly to the woman who inspired it.

  15. What term should have been applied to his eccentricities in politer circles I cannot say, but in Wallencamp, he was artlessly designated as "the fool.

  16. There was a cooking-stove in it, and many other articles of modest worth, so artlessly scattered about as to present a scene of the wildest and richest profusion.

  17. Finally she forgot it, however, and listened artlessly to what he had to tell her.

  18. But in the frame of mind in which she had been since the end of the year she was no longer capable of laughing artlessly and merrily.

  19. The sentiments which they so artlessly confide to us show that they believed all to be over.

  20. Each one referred to his own dialect, and artlessly strove to explain the unintelligible sounds by what little knowledge of languages he possessed.

  21. I'll talk to each one as she comes in, and artlessly find out how long she can stay, then I'll hand her over to you to be treated accordingly.

  22. An American lady inspecting these pits observed artlessly that "now she understood where all those columns came from.

  23. Hearing that we were going to Tyari, the home of the independent Nestorians, they inquired artlessly "Pray, do you know anything of a deacon there?

  24. It was all funereal, yet was artlessly rough.

  25. And they ask them to perform a miracle as artlessly as a condemned man implores his pardon from the head of the State.

  26. They confided this artlessly to Mr. Kirkpatrick, who replied dryly that they were the best argument he had in stock.

  27. The appearance of the girl was artlessly virginal and innocent; she looked as if she had passed through the contamination of the streets without being touched by it, without fearing it, or feeling it, or understanding it.


  28. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "artlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    genuinely; naturally; openly; plainly; simply