Sentence Examples

1. I have allowed to escape, in the candid credulity of my heart, the treasure I possessed.
2. But when David, unconscious of being observed, turned his head, and exposed his simple, mild countenance, in place of the haughty lineaments of their prisoner, it would have exceeded the credulity of even a native to have doubted any longer.
3. She sympathized with Fulla, of course, but the woman had the unending effusiveness of a girl of three winters and the credulity to match.
4. Those acute and long-practised senses, whose powers so often exceed the limits of all ordinary credulity, after having detected the danger, had enabled them to ascertain its magnitude and duration.
5. No lurking horrors were to upbraid him for his easy credulity.
6. He was, in fact, an odd mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity.
7. I have perused several books of travels with great delight in my younger days but having since gone over most parts of the globe, and been able to contradict many fabulous accounts from my own observation, it has given me a great disgust against this part of reading, and some indignation to see the credulity of mankind so impudently abused.
8. Did it not strain credulity to think that a buzzard had never swooped down to sate his thirst, disturbing one of the buckets in the process?