"simple" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They had good- natured faces, being as a rule good-natured; and they laughed long and deeply, being fond of simple jests at all times, but especially after dinner (which they had twice a day, when they could get it).
- The daughter had just uttered some simple jest that filled them all with mirth, when the wind came through the Notch and seemed to pause before their cottage- rattling the door, with a sound of wailing and lamentation, before it passed into the valley.
- Pioratto says that it would take more than a simple jest to vex the immovable Candido.
- Some men had a knack for friendship, for easy chatter and simple jests.
- And I confess, I was glad too of the Illyrians' company and their simple jests, taking comfort in what had become familiar to me.
- In it Ilse related how a simple "jest" one afternoon had suddenly escalated into a serious proposal that Einstein marry her instead of her mother.
- In the course of the past few years, sections of the literary academy have had to endure a good deal of ridicule, arising from this simple jest.
- And laugh they did, and eat, and drink, often and heartily, being fond of simple jests at all times, and of six meals a day (when they could get them).
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