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Meanings of childlike simplicity in English

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Usage of childlike simplicity in English
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With childlike simplicity the red man rose and began to run slowly.
The Prairie Chief
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He doth, ever in his childlike simplicity, say something to confound me.
The Knight of the Golden Melice: A Historical Romance
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There was something irresistibly comic in the childlike simplicity of these poor natives.
Ungava
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She on her side was attracted by a certain childlike simplicity and innocence.
The Captives
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Elisabeth opened her eyes wide with an expression of childlike simplicity.
The Farringdons
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Power and gentleness, childlike simplicity, and scholarliness, were curiously mingled in this man.
California Sketches, New Series
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One saw that he prayed, trustingly, with a childlike simplicity.
The Purple Heights
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Beethoven's childlike simplicity is illustrated in the difference of his demeanor toward his two physicians.
Beethoven, a character study / Together with Wagner's indebtedne...
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There is an almost childlike simplicity in her account of the inner side of the experience.
Letters of Catherine Benincasa
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These two principles underlie all right work for the Lord,-honestyand love; childlike simplicity and sincerity.
Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary / Col...
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The childlike simplicity and winning grace of Lady Rebecca, as she was called, attracted universal admiration.
A Brief History of the United States
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The master expressed his astonishment with childlike simplicity.
Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
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There was a childlike simplicity in Bassett's delight.
A Hoosier Chronicle
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What a picture of democratic and childlike simplicity!
The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 / F...
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With childlike simplicity I asked if it was wrong to wish that the vessel should go ashore.
The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
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Frank, I marvel at the childlike simplicity of your folly and your mental antics to justify it.
The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia
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