Every instinct of her nature revolted, and underlying all her girlish unsophistication, a native shrewdness, inherited perhaps from her father, bade her distrust alike the worldly, self-interested pastor of the Church of St. James and the three so-called friends, who, although her father's associates, had been his rivals, and who had offered with such astounding magnanimity to stand by her.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
Moneyed interests that centered there would have made the young attorney, who was also the district's member in Congress, something more than a local representative, had he not chosen to represent the native holders and to stand as a buffer between their unsophistication and their would-be exploiters.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Mrs. Falkner had large blue eyes, with waving tendrils of hair, which gave her face the look of childish unsophistication;-especially at this moment when her voluptuous lips were closing over a specially desired piece of candy.
"Together"
Robert Herrick (1868-1938)