1 Ethan had imagined that his allusion might open the way to the accepted pleasantries, and these perhaps in turn to a harmless caress, if only a mere touch on her hand.
2 She liked gossip better than anything else in the world, even more than she liked the pleasures of the table, and she prattled on for hours about other people's affairs in a harmless kindly way.
3 So many things, quite harmless, that one must not do for the same reason.
4 "Oh, he's harmless if you flatter him and act like you depend on him," said Melanie.
5 And the fact in itself still seemed harmless enough; only it was a fertile source of harmful complications.
6 Put by Rosedale in terms of business-like give-and-take, this understanding took on the harmless air of a mutual accommodation, like a transfer of property or a revision of boundary lines.
7 Willis and Mrs. Woodford arrived, Willis in home-made knickers and black sneakers through at the toe; then Dr. and Mrs. Harvey Dillon, people as harmless and grateful as the Woodfords.
8 But this is a harmless little foible in the English whale-hunters, which the Nantucketer does not take much to heart; probably, because he knows that he has a few foibles himself.
9 Generally, however, this harmless question would only make his fellow workingmen lose their tempers and call him a fool.
10 The brewer was a Jew, and had no brains, but he was harmless, and would put up a rare campaign fund.
11 Turning like a headed deer, he shot, with the swiftness of an arrow, through a pillar of forked flame, and passing the whole multitude harmless, he appeared on the opposite side of the clearing.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 12 It was excellent drill for their memories, a harmless amusement, and employed many hours which otherwise would have been idle, lonely, or spent in less profitable society.
13 The servant takes Hugo aside to tell him something, and Hagar changes the cups for two others which are harmless.
14 That is perfectly natural, and quite harmless, if the liking does not become a passion and lead one to do foolish or unmaidenly things.
15 Passers-by probably thought them a pair of harmless lunatics, for they entirely forgot to hail a bus, and strolled leisurely along, oblivious of deepening dusk and fog.