See gentle or simple on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews:",
"text": "She is the sweetest-tempered, honestest, worthiest, young creature ; indeed, as to her beauty, I do not commend her on that account, though all men allow she is the handsomest woman, gentle or simple, that ever appeared in the parish.",
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"ref": "1743, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, The History of the Renowned Don Quixote de la Mancha:",
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"ref": "1840, James Fenimore Cooper, Mercedes of Castile: or, The voyage to Cathay - Volume 1, pages 38–39:",
"text": "When a maiden, gentle or simple, intendeth marriage against her kinsmen's wishes, it is the way to wed first, and to write the letter and ask the blessing when the evil is done.\"",
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"ref": "2011, Dorothy Scarborough, Humorous Ghost Stories, →ISBN:",
"text": "They did well, too, and moved with the times, and kept their heads high for more generations than I can call home; and then they comed to what all families, whether gentle or simple, always come to soon or late.",
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"ref": "1846, Llewelyn's heir; or North Wales, its manners, customs and superstitions, page 76:",
"text": "And who is there amongst the gentle or simple that ever heard my name, that would bring me a cup of butter-milk, though they knew that I was parched with thirst ; or a morsel of bread if I were dying of hunger?",
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"ref": "2011, Charles Wilkins, History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and Other Trades of Wales, →ISBN, page 129:",
"text": "Gentle or simple, man or woman, never came in for flattery at his hand, and hence his criticism of Lady Charlotte's work is worth pages of eulogistic comment.",
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"ref": "2013, Joseph Furphy, Such is Life: Text Classics, →ISBN, page 299:",
"text": "Also, the man glaringly destitute of integrity or capacity, but noticed as having a bullet-head, a square jaw, countersunk eyes, and the rest in proportion, is suspected of having the other kind of force in reserve; and we know how he escapes anything like wanton personal indignity in his intercourse with gentle or simple.",
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"ref": "2011, Dorothy Scarborough, Humorous Ghost Stories, →ISBN:",
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"ref": "2011, Charles Wilkins, History of the Iron, Steel, Tinplate and Other Trades of Wales, →ISBN, page 129:",
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"ref": "2013, Joseph Furphy, Such is Life: Text Classics, →ISBN, page 299:",
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