Plainness

Lodgers, and not House keepers: They offered and excused every thing in such pretty Country Plainness as charmed me So being desirous to creep further into their Acquaintance, I refused Tea at that time begging leave to wait on them in the Morning, when a Dish of Tea would be very acceptable: I took my leave, but with a certain tender Reluctance, such as

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Lodgers, and not House keepers: They offered and excused every thing in such pretty Country Plainness as charmed me So being desirous to creep further into their Acquaintance, I refused Tea at that time begging leave to wait on them in the Morning, when a Dish of Tea would be very acceptable: I took my leave, but with a certain tender Reluctance, such as

The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

Plainness, simplicity, and quakerism, either in dress or manners, will by no means do; they must both be laced and embroidered; speaking, or writing sense, without elegance and turn, will be very little persuasive; and the best figure in the world, without air and address, will be very ineffectual.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

Plainness was nearly lost in it, workmen, porters, carters, farmers in from the countryside, priests of the lower orders.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989

Plainness was nearly lost in it, workmen, porters, carters, farmers in from the countryside, priests of the lower orders.

The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1988

Plainness in dress was as much a rule of the school as was plainness of speech.

Prudence Crandall, Woman of Courage 1955

Plainness, purity, softness of texture rather than elaborate ornament should be the main consideration for infants 'clothes.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

_Strong figures_ here, _Neat Plainness_ there desir'd:

Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley

Plainness of my Dress, upon proper Occasions I dress as

Ten American Girls From History Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Humph! If Beauty is excuse enough for Being, it sure takes Plainness then to feel the real necessity for -- Doing.

Little Eve Edgarton Eleanor Hallowell Abbott 1915