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• A plain answer. (22)
• He told a plain tale. (10)
• She spoke plain truth. (10)
• Is it not plain and simple? (8)
• But what was the plain truth? (10)
• What plain words could she use? (10)
• However, he spoke plain English. (10)
• Plain velvet was his dress at dinner. (10)
• The plain is rich with tufts of poplar. (2)
• To the young, life is a very plain case. (9)
• What I propose is plain sense for us two. (10)
• Plain sense, as from gentlemen to gentlemen. (10)
• Tell the men on the plain they can drive home. (10)
• Or can you accuse me of a lack of plain speaking? (12)
• It was scarcely wise to write other than plain facts. (10)
• It was scarcely wise to write other than plain facts. (22)
• His hand was offered and hers demanded in plain terms. (10)
• It was plain to Angelo that this fellow had suspicions. (10)
• He considered it rather a plain calculation than a guess. (10)
• Established plain prose officials do better for our English. (10)
• The answer to this ungenerous contention is fortunately plain. (8)
• It was now plain that there was serious trouble looming ahead. (19)
• Emilia was about to utter a plain affirmative, but it was checked. (10)
• It was plain that I must make a sacrifice to the gods of shipwreck. (2)
• Her evasions of answers that, plain speculation would supply were quaint. (10)
• Here, indeed, was sport royal, and the plain people took to it with avidity. (16)
• Lo, a sea upon land held career Through the plain of the vale half-devoured. (10)
• I put it as a test of breeding to speak of these things as plain matter-of-fact. (10)
• The more closely the matter is regarded, the more plain it is, that there is none! (8)
• With time it became disconnected from passion, and took form in a plain narrative. (10)
• I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now. (4)
• Mr. Smith repented of leaving her, she knew, though he dared not say it in plain words. (10)
• She is bent upon my worldly advantage, and that is plain even to the person rejecting it. (10)
• It was plain enough that, behind his impassivity, a desperate struggle was going on in Miltoun. (8)
• The touch of her had demolished all his vagueness, made things only too plain, set him on fire. (8)
• When she at last regained her senses, she was lying on a plain couch in a long, whitewashed hall. (5)
• Her dress was plain black from throat to heel, with a skull cap of white, like a Moravian sister. (10)
• The soldiers bivouacked on the slope of one of the low undulations falling to the Vicentino plain. (10)
• This plain wand, with an eighth of an inch of pin, was indeed a sceptre when he put it in my hands. (2)
• Monsieur Profond, in fact, made the mood too plain in a country which decently veiled such realities. (8)
• The house was plain, and was furnished with the simpler moveables out of the house in Nankeen Square. (9)
• If people stare at you, as you say, you are very well aware it is not because you are becoming plain. (22)
• Astonished at this flash of cynical inspiration, and ashamed of such plain speaking, she checked herself. (8)
• He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was continually passing in the streets. (4)
• So that the plain sense of value insisted on more than one weighing of the gain in hand: a dubious measure. (10)
• She was pale, and droopy from the heat, but happily dressed in Liberty silk, with a plain turn-down straw hat. (8)
• Altogether the mind of the practical man became distinguishable to them as that of a plain brother of the poetic. (10)
• Poor duty is done by the simple sense of moral worth, to supplant that absence of feature in the plain flat back. (10)
• That June would have trouble with the fellow was as plain as a pikestaff; he had no more idea of money than a cow. (8)
• There were also anthems, the old plain chant and much Folk-music, but nothing that can be considered as important. (3)
• But his laughter on leaving her stamped it a cruelty; of the kind that plain mortals, who can be monsters, commit. (10)
• She knew that she had betrayed herself, made plain to Mark Lennan what she had never until now admitted to herself. (8)
• Her awe of her uncle, and her dread of taking a liberty with him, made it instantly plain to her what she had to do. (4)
• However, one cannot go wrong in using a plain board casing ¾ inch by 3⅝ inches, which has slightly rounded corners. (17)
• The landlady was a stout, plain, short-sighted, motherly body, with something not far short of a genius for cookery. (2)
• She had given him a peaceable two days on the Upper Thames, in an atmosphere of plain good sense and just-mindedness. (10)
• Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good constitution. (4)
• But even more convincing is the dissatisfaction with the metropolitan press in every reform camp and among the plain people. (16)
• To match this simple trim the window apron should be a plain board ¾ inch by 3⅝ inches, and the stool 1⅛ inches by 3⅝ inches. (17)
• There are plain reasons why the Comic poet is not a frequent apparition; and why the great Comic poet remains without a fellow. (10)
• Had not Rockney been given to a high expression of opinion, plain in fervour, he would often have been exposed bare to hostile shafts. (10)
• He got up, and stood gazing down at the town, at the plain all green with crops, and the ring of mountains glamorous in sinking sunlight. (8)
• The detached mound of rock on which it stood rose like an island in the midst of the plain, and commanded the highways in every direction. (9)
• Mutually timid, they were of course formally polite, and no plain speaking could have told one another more distinctly that each was defensive. (10)
• With the peep of day the entire adult population rattles away over the plain in springless wicker wagons to the cornfields, often miles distant. (20)
• It was mighty pretty, as Pepys would say, to see the delicate deference Clemens paid our plain hero, and the manly respect with which he listened. (9)
• The Congressional district to which Cambridge belonged then included also Jamaica Plain, and similar action was taken there under the leadership of the Rev. (14)
• And besides, he was he, the unriddled, complex, individual he; she was the plain barbarian survival, good for giving her offspring bone, muscle, stout heart. (10)
• She had now the company of a plain, middle-aged woman, whose attire hesitatingly expressed some inward festivity, and had a certain reluctant fashionableness. (9)

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