plain

She wanted to, so I let her; but I’m sure I could have found something more poetical than plain Birch Path.

The Ass, as long as he traveled along the plain, carried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear.

One of them, turning about, said to him: “That is the very reason why we are so cautious; for if you yesterday treated us better than the Goats you have had so long, it is plain also that if others came after us, you would in the same manner prefer them to ourselves.”

“No, monsieur, I do not know the writing, and yet it is tolerably plain.