"Simon-pure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... especially to one who had believed he had perceived a natural likeness between the little principality on the Mediterranean and this beauty spot of the Orient. But China is rather too far to the eastward of Suez for simon-pure guile, and the globe-trotter decides to thoroughly explore local conditions by way of adding to his worldly knowledge. If you go to the post-office to mail a letter, you recognize perforce how backward a colony of Portugal may be in supplying the trifling requirements ...
— East of Suez - Ceylon, India, China and Japan • Frederic Courtland Penfield
... electoral defeats, and by the administrative and governmental helplessness, as exhibited every day by their leaders; the Democrats, flushed with success, display an unusual activity in evil doing, and are risking everything to preserve Slavery and the South from destruction. I speak of the Simon-pure Democrats, alias Copperheads, such as the Woods, the Seymours, the Vallandighams, the Coxes, the Biddles, &c. The Sewards and the Weeds are ready for a compromise. The masses of the people, staggered by all this bewildering turmoil ...
— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski
... boy proceeded to grip hands with his guests. He acted as though it might be a simon-pure introduction; as it certainly was, in ...
— At Whispering Pine Lodge • Lawrence J. Leslie |
