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This usually leaves the remaining swans swimming innocently and mutely in the early dawn light of a new era, leaving only a tragic legend behind.
There is no such thing as the passive observer who may watch innocently.
Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.
I suppose in most of those cases the disease was acquired innocently?
It's not a phenomenon limited to my classes, as it innocently seemed to me.
A child will as innocently play with a snake as a teddy bear.
Secondly, outer or cultural-historical time is not innocently experienced.
The excitement began innocently enough when a young woman dropped a mouse down the blouse of a friend knowing that she was terrified of mice and would make a scene.
Historians who continued to write in an unembattled spirit of inquiry were thus perpetually, though innocently, liable to subvert the entire 'whig' historiography, by continuing to repeat these unmistakable facts.
This response completely surprised, and somewhat shocked, the villager, and he innocently remarked that if the chief guest's country has no water buffaloes, it must be a poor country!
Historians do not innocently tell stories.
Possible translations are 'innocently' or 'naively'.
Those in detention are not all there because they were detained at the port where they innocently asked for asylum.
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