She was the most exquisite contradiction; in one moment the guilelessness of a child, in another, the worldly-wise woman.
With the guilelessness of the Oriental he considered himself responsible for his master in all future times.
It was characteristic of William Nelson’s transparent guilelessness that it never occurred to him to make any secret of his own blunders, or to conceal the mishaps which they involved.
It was a curious study to note the guilelessness and child-like simplicity which William Nelson retained unchanged to the close of his life, along with rare shrewdness and sagacity as a man of business.
Was this apparent guilelessness and simplicity a mask?
The bland innocence of his pudgy face and the seraphic mildness of his unblinking almond eyes that peeped through slits no wider than the streak of a charcoal-pencil were as the guilelessness of Mother Eve in the garden.
Mr Bloxam regarded her with an intent look of instinctive suspicion, which, however, glanced off abashed from the guilelessness of her mien.
Under the stress of the situation Mrs Wiseman completely regained her self-possession, and her look of guilelessness clothed her like an armour of proof.
Sebastien, who admired his chief without reservation, and who was, as yet, wholly ignorant of the evils of bureaucracy, had the follies of guilelessness as well as its grace.
The guilelessness of the supernumerary does not last long.
That same guilelessness enables the artist to make absolutely ornamental use of themes which to-day we might think it profane to make subservient to decorative effect.
If we take a certain incongruity for granted, the guilelessness of it only charms us.
But New Yorkers have few prejudices except against guilelessness and failure.
Her landlady was Mrs. Redding, a simple-hearted, deaf old widow with bright kind eyes beaming guilelessnessthrough steel-framed spectacles.
The freedom with which in those days formal alterations were made even in public documents, and the guilelessness with which such changes were received, appears, for example, from the translation of the Apology by Justus Jonas.
Yet they pleaded the guilelessness of their intentions and the harmlessness of their procedure.
The complete guilelessnessand good faith in which the Lutheran princes and theologians employed the Variata, and permitted its use appears from the Preface to the Book of Concord.
His guilelessness shining the more conspicuously amid the artful and malignant subtlety alike of men and devils.
But there was an almost pathetic guilelessness in them, and one brown hand hesitated about his breast-pocket.
Then they sat gazing at each other across the avitovats, hand in hand like a couple of children; for there was guilelessness in his eyes and innocence in hers.
Three-score years and ten of worldly experience left her an accomplished lady, a delightful companion; but in guilelessness a child.
A dangerous quality, perhaps, this quality of guilelessness which thinketh no evil, which cannot be induced to see the evil under its very nose.
Guilelessness and sincerity may be dismissed almost without a word.
Monk, stretched out upon a leather couch in his sitting-room, levelled eyebrows of suspicion at Lanyard, who countered with a guilelessness so perfect as to make it appear that he did not even comprehend the insinuation.
IX What unparalleled guilelessness it argues to believe that there could be love without passion!
And this guilelessness to propose to receive under her roof an ardent young man, a man of the age when the passions are so strong that control is often almost impossible!
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