Once, after visiting their house, Mrs. March described to March a little scene between Dryfoos and Mela, when he came home from Wall Street, and the girl met him at the door with a kind of country simpleness, and took his hat and stick, and brought him into the room where Mrs. March sat, looking tired and broken.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells
The tossed and sunny tangle of thy hair, Thy swiftness, slimness, shyness, simpleness, That set the old folk sighing for the rare Red rose of Joy thy careless days possess.
"The Inn of Dreams"
Olive Custance
And yet she was the youngest girl in all that set, as to simpleness and freshness and unpretendingness, though she was in her twentieth year now, which sounds-didn't somebody say so over my shoulder?
"We Girls: A Home Story"
Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney