Sentence Examples
The residents of Tortuga put up with a lot, but it was sheer folly to fly the colors in a town. |
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The mother realises her folly and wants the in-laws to stay with them forever! |
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My ash bower is a kind of folly, an Aboriginal wiltja that stands at the top of my long meadow in Suffolk. |
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You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly. |
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Let him be a lesson of the perilous folly of incuriousness, and the value of speaking truth to power. |
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To kill a swan is still considered the height of folly and many used to believe that swans were in fact the reincarnation of human souls! |
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And by their clinging to the anchor of a sinking ship for security, they drown in their own folly. |
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Authors of burlesque usually avoided the high ethical road of the satirist, who ridicules a folly or fashion in the hope of eradicating it. |
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The colossal irony is that a madman who rescued her from her folly was the same madman who later killed her. |
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Apparently realizing the folly of her ways, she declined to press charges, saying it was her fault for teasing the hungry elephant. |
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My folly was in thinking that the problem was that I was not getting the paper positioned properly under the paper bail. |
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The liberation theologists have written extensively about the folly of the oppressed using the tactics of their oppressors. |
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To teach our young people in a school like that, to be reared like battery hens, would be folly. |
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Three of these plays were usually tragedies, plays that focused on a heroic character who falls due to his own folly. |
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But prosecutors are not perfectly wise, and it is folly to trust them with so much power. |
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I can be quite blokeish about cars and once, in a moment of extreme folly, bought a BMW that I couldn't afford to run. |
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The blowback from its failure in transport is pushing it towards an even greater folly in energy policy. |
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She hits the skids and sees the folly in denying her love for an unsuitably poor lawyer. |
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But if American politicians echo the terrorists' blood-lusting, this tragedy will have been turned to slaughterous folly. |
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But what is harder to condone than the folly of youth is the sight of the game's senior figures acting like petulant, paranoid brats. |
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Like all satirists from Juvenal on he is broken up about the march of folly. |
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Other times, we flounder in our folly, unable to remember the simplest stage direction, let alone the words to save our skin. |
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Paul also showed the folly of hoping to find some saving power in religious observances. |
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Because of her sturdy intellectual independence and integrity, Ravitch exempts no sect, ideology, or school from failure and folly. |
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He can't deny it, but he does say he was often quoted out of context to play up the producer's interest in human folly. |
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There's also a lot of folly, superstition and craziness, but I like to concentrate on the energy and resilience aspect of it. |
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The exquisite engraving includes the figure of a cherub in a dog-drawn chariot and an architectural folly. |
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Though leavened with humour, the play is a dispassionate survey of humankind's folly. |
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Suddenly, asking fifty pence for a cassette seems an act somewhere well to the left of folly. |
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Needless to say, there were a few of my pernickety readers who were quick to point out the folly of my ways. |
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Consequently, early versions of the installment plan were dismissed as the folly of the improvident poor, immigrants, and women. |
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Surely it is only a matter of time before technology grows and becomes such an irrepressible force that to try to restrict it would be folly. |
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Why, it is sheer folly to attempt to predict who will prevail with so much uncertainty pervading the future. |
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How much publicity should that act of folly generate, in comparison to the meaningless Plame farce? |
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The Soviet colonisation of the Arctic was an act of extreme folly and cruelty. |
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So then, do you think, Bill, the newspapers are just committing an exercise in folly, or is it good journalism? |
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It seems to me that for a country of any size, nineteen political parties is sheer folly. |
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There is no future in trying to find a middle road between folly and common sense. |
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But to attack him now, at a time when the Middle East is already on the brink of full-scale war, would be an act of terrible folly. |
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What sheer folly it must be to fall in love if it makes one talk in such a silly manner. |
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With a minute left, and the score 2-2, Phil Neville committed an act of folly in the penalty box and Ganea scored from the spot. |
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But, having said that, some of the ways that people have been dispersed into the community have been sheer folly. |
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But to commit America to a broader role while remaining blindly ignorant of the ultimate cost of doing so is sheer folly. |
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That act of folly summed up 30 minutes of dire rugby, but also seemed to spark Scotland into some semblance of life. |
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A luxury player, great to add to a winning team, his purchase by City was the ultimate act of folly. |
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This is sheer folly and reveals a lack of understanding of the power of saving regularly from an early age. |
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If anything, he has unwittingly sounded the sirens to launch a war without end by this single act of presidential folly. |
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It is a peculiar folly, under these circumstances, for the rich to seek greater riches by selling weapons to the poor. |
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It is a suicidal folly to condone, much less encourage, any anarchic agenda, overlooking its disruptiveness in the national context. |
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He is a pragmatist to the last breath and would never have indulged a personal folly, like Bacon did, in appointing a governor. |
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I will conspicuously recycle the cans and glasses and papers, even though I suspect it's all a folly. |
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Disregard of the movements and sentiments developing around them was a primary folly. |
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It is almost a folly to expect complete truth and sincerity among political parties and that too in today's dirty politics. |
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It cries out to be exploited as a grand folly, an emblem of muddle, hype and plain foolishness with enormous entertainment potential. |
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It's a fascinating folly in the woods, up a hill, offering stunning views over London, out into Kent, and across to Essex and beyond. |
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There was also a folly and a burial ground, so all in all more sinister than friendly, in my opinion. |
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Known as the Temple de l' Amour, the folly is now the client's summer residence. |
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Apart from formal diversity, the symbolic and cultural role of the folly is also important. |
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Built in 1843 in the style of a Greek temple, the folly is a Grade II Listed Building. |
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The most dominant garden feature is a folly with an interesting provenance. |
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Ruins themselves are reminiscent of purpose-built folly gardens of the eighteenth century. |
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Of course, this does not mean that all mega-transfers are folly or random crapshoots. |
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The paragraph is remarkable for its gassy banality, but let us just marvel at the folly of that last line. |
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But the region will pay a heavy price for his folly unless the scandal swirling around him delivers the world from his Machiavellian designs. |
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Once again we get a series of monologues skewering this or that human folly through one of its typical embodiers. |
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Evidently this was the limit imposed by divine providence upon that sort of folly. |
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It is folly to think that wild birds and other wildlife are less susceptible to the influences of disease than humans and domestic animals. |
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If parents don't work at unbinding that folly, we have no hope of the next generation being and doing more for God than we. |
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Isn't to gamble and to lose itself a valuable demonstration of the absolute folly of a belief in untrammelled freedom? |
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But union leaders said the service was being hit by an act of vandalism and branded the plans folly and an absolute disgrace. |
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Time was when the big man, a steamfitter by trade, would have thought it mad folly to come to Ed Massey's for anything but a haircut. |
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How quick we have forgotten the sacrifice demanded of those whose homes and communities that stood in the way of the inner relief folly. |
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A patient man has great understanding, but a quick-tempered man displays folly. |
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If he was a fool, what were those his folly whipped into orgies of vicious mockery? |
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I pushed him further by saying that it is folly to buy anything electronic that will be used in the cockpit of a sailboat if it is not waterproof. |
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Science is not immune from error, folly, or self-serving boosterism. |
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Trying to recon ahead with the whole squad, for example, often results in one man's folly exposing the entire squad and getting everyone else killed. |
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When folly is once taught, it is very difficult to unteach it. |
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To others it is simply an artistic folly on a bleak Lanarkshire hillside. |
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The futility of war, the folly and the horror, and the lies that serve the bloodshed of the battlefield are writ large across Peter Whelan's The Accrington Pals. |
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But there is no folly like that of the impenitent child of the world. |
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Being booked for rejoicing in a goal is sheer folly in itself. |
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Just reciting the names conjures up the romantic side of Scottish history, peppered with acts of valour, loyalty, derring-do and occasional folly. |
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Minority rights matter a lot in a body which was supposed to be a firewall against the haste and folly of popular sentiment. |
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In satires on lewdness and folly, artists and poets continued to portray brothel-keepers as old hags, following the tradition established by classical myths. |
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It was playground pettiness, grotesquely selfish folly that was not only self-destructive but bound to do serious damage to the interests of his team. |
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Whatever the reason behind all this folly, the Georgian people have earned their right to some form of protection by the West. |
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John Kael Weston, who spent years in both, reflects on what another war would mean after the folly of the last two. |
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In a genuine academic debate over selection of facts and their interpretation, people should be graceful enough to accept their folly, if and when it is exposed. |
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Lockey makes the same point by transferring the family escutcheons to the yellow curtain on the left, where they become, in effect, emblems of folly. |
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By an act of unthinking folly I used them as an example yesterday. |
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Long before he advocated formal independence he was teaching both Americans and their imperial masters that the attempt to rule the colonies from Britain was a folly. |
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It's this bizarre folly to the idea prevalent in the 1950s and 1960s that you could design a megastructure which would supply nearly every need of the residents. |
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We come up so short, so often, within our own country that it is folly of the highest order to believe that we have a right to evangelize to the rest of the world. |
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But one man's notion of a masterwork may be another's idea of a folly. |
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They've committed one great folly in the mess-up with the dig tree. |
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Now we have a swimming pool, a marvellous garden and a splendid folly. |
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All too often, the march of folly has been bicameral, as well as bipartisan. |
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History hangs on thousands of fragile threads, and speculating on the unhappened past is almost as great a folly as trying to foretell the future. |
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It was not until after the challenger accident that the folly of this approach was realized. |
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Several folly towers and temples once formed part of the landscape at Emo. |
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In wisely sidestepping the hubristic folly of trying to sum up his own time, he achieved a sort of timelessness. |
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It is absolute folly to suggest that somehow water is special. |
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A building can be symbolic of power, but it can also be a folly. |
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Judging by the behaviour of birds, monkeys and deer, our quarry was certainly out there, probably sitting in the long grass and smiling to himself at human folly. |
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She knew she was being selfish for accepting him, for making him pay for her folly, but she was simply not strong enough to refuse him a second time. |
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The dividing line between bad fortune and folly is sometimes blurred. |
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The desire for rationalising and centralising local services is sheer folly and will lead to more traffic, more travelling and deprived communities. |
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His footballing genius was never questioned, but back home he was known as an egomaniac who was undisciplined, uncontrollable and prone to flights of folly. |
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The loss of so much cargo in one swoop confirmed, once again, the folly of building such gigantic ships. |
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The cruel folly which crimps a number of ignorant and innocent peasants, dresses them up in uniform..and sends them off to kill and be killed. |
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A luncheonette in the shape of a coffee cup is particularly conspicuous, as is intended of an architectural duck or folly. |
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Overall, experience in the two decades that followed the publication of Dijkstra's letter showed the folly of producing goto-laden code. |
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William Morris lived occasionally in Broadway Tower, a folly, now part of a country park. |
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Moving further north, Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire. |
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Are you justified to reproach him in public even if he hasn't crossed any incondonable limit, just committed a petty folly? |
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If all these gracious indulgences are without any effect on us, we must perish in our own folly. |
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Rather than the large house, though, Belle Isle plays host to a folly which is used by the Water Witches in the area. |
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But the ashes of Auschwitz fell on Hitler's folly, on the announcement of the millenarian Reich. |
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By the early 19th century the tower was in ruins and in 1890 it was restored as a folly by the Llantrisants' town trust. |
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The publication of these papers was not owing to our folly, but that of others. |
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The misunderstanding of the word or the quid pro quo is the unintentional pun, and is related to it exactly as folly is to wit. |
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Additionally, the belvedere from the top of the tower survives as a folly at Sandon Hall. |
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Twenty-five years later, of course, canning Jobs seems like obvious folly. |
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But in the long term, Moscow can be made to regret its folly. |
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Halper's analysis of this megalomaniacal doctrine appears at a moment when its folly is being exposed as seldom before. |
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Male field crickets that take big risks for love seem to make up for their folly by hiding a lot. |
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This was no Blowsabella, this was no buxom, forward, romping girl, to meet with a reward for her folly. |
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Seven years have now passed since the financial crisis left crumbling cranes on skeletal structures in witness to the folly of economic overextension. |
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The price at which the average consumer will react adversely is not yet known, and it would be folly to judge by the conduct of the British theics. |
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I have but one rift in the darkness, that is that I have injured no one save myself by my folly, and that the extent of that folly you will never learn. |
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As a dog returneth to his vomit, a fool returneth to his folly. |
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Wit which borders upon profaneness deserves to be branded as folly. |
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Supporters of Jellicoe, including the historian Cyril Falls, pointed to the folly of risking defeat in battle when one already has command of the sea. |
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Every piece of the earth had a dangling modifier, attaching it to a profound bed in my memory and calling upon my folly, as if it were mastering my ignorance. |
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The current castle is an elaborately decorated Victorian folly designed by William Burges for the Marquess and built in the 1870s, as an occasional retreat. |
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View of the water garden showing the Gothic folly of the Octagonal Tower. |
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All characters now recognise their folly in light of recent events, and things return to the natural order, thanks to the love and death of Romeo and Juliet. |
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The purchase of Alaska from Russia was termed Seward's folly. |
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Woody Allen, perhaps cinema's most famous Oscar shunner, has always been that rare movie-industry outlier who truly grasps the folly of self-congratulation. |
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Although the details of her life can be disorienting at times, Teri Garr displays a sharp comic sense as she peppers Speedbumps with anecdotes of fun and folly. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
As for the necklace, I will pay for it myself, and so pay for my credulous folly. |
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What folly it was to venture into the world with such a guide as this desperado, Whiskerandos! |
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It had been folly enough while he believed that she stood ready to accept him and his wealth. |
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But having laughed and shamed his age out of one folly, he had the mortification of seeing it run headlong into another. |
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And Mr. Price said that though folly was incidental to Alfred's years, it must be checked. |
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Locke was now far too eminent a man to be troubled by so anile a demonstration of folly. |
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If the stage becomes a nursery of folly and impertinence, I shall not be afraid to animadvert upon it. |
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It shows how desperate, at heart, is the folly of an egotistic or anthropocentric philosophy. |
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To doubt what they believed could only be ascribed to arrant folly or to wickedness. |
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Merely to think of association football in connection with her was enough to make the folly of his conduct clear. |
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The King of Darfur, who was distinguished no less for his valour than for his folly, was killed. |
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Because that had been wicked and devilishly false, the Dean's folly was not the less. |
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We surmised that he found encouragement in this house, and had beforetime listened to thy childish and unreasoning folly. |
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A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. |
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Upon the whole he was not without a bodement that it would be folly to press on. |
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They are victims of their elders' folly, of our carelessness as to their environment. |
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Others are ceramic satires on the drunkard's folly or the inconstancy of women. |
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Who'd have thought that calm, clearheaded woman would ever have committed such a folly? |
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There was all the folly with that confetti stuff and the rest of it to go through with yet. |
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Is not simplicity, as we take it, cousin-german to folly and a quality of reproach? |
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The folly of the gambling savage, who stakes his liberty against a handful of cowrie shells is nothing to it. |
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His vanity, coxcombry and folly, displeased the King, and alarmed the Queen. |
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And from dropsy to the deprivation of life into which your folly will bring you. |
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Darco was a true man, and to think of him as a scandalmonger was mere folly. |
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Handcuffed as he stood, to attempt to run with any hope of distancing his pursuer would have been simple folly at best. |
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Was there ever such a piece of folly as to exchange your pipes for a scullion's ladle? |
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No, it would be self-defeating folly to make Wagner appear less in order to have Strauss appear more. |
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Are you not now convinced that men are only guided by folly, which dooms them to be slaves? |
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I had followed her in, and I ground my teeth at such an egregious piece of folly. |
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Anti-republicans can only expiate their folly under the age of the guillotine. |
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Is it necessary to spend time in exhibiting the folly and fallaciousness of this first principle? |
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Simply to say you're going to make your fortune is all fiddlesticks and folly. |
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It is worse than folly to expect good from the way that things are now managed. |
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He must suffer more, must lose more, must pay more with happiness for his folly. |
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Hence his folly of treating his thoughts and fancies, as he was treated by the goblin. |
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But apart from the folly of it, there were none of the ships that had ground tackle left that was fit to hold a cat. |
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That you may not suffer for your own senselessness, and may not harm others by your folly. |
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Like his hairbrained, unquenchable youth, bright with folly, the sunsets and vanity lay in the past. |
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It is the sheerest folly to let one of those fellows have the first chance. |
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The reverse is obtained of that which was aimed at in folly and shortsightedness. |
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He was even able to indulge himself in a quiet, sobering grin at his own folly. |
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He was too wildly incomprehensible with his changes from humanness to folly. |
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But what can have brought you into this hurly-burly of folly and wickedness? |
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The squiredom of Ireland was the favourite profession of busy idleness, worthless activity, and festive folly. |
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The sotie was directly satirical, and only assumed the guise of folly as a stalking-horse for shooting wit. |
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There was nothing for him to resent, nothing for him to imprecate but his own folly. |
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That they be done in prudence, and not with folly, rashness, or inconsiderateness. |
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Besides, it were folly to think to judge of incorporeal things by corporeal. |
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But whatever betide, I shall have had my shot at the alluring yet ineluctable problem of human folly. |
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With your love and your pride, your sins and your folly, inexpressibly dear to me! |
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At least, she had kept him from the outrageous folly of an ordinary burglary. |
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And I trust that there will come a time when the English people may see the folly of building basely and insecurely. |
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And she had no wish to add this irretrievable folly to the original blunder. |
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One refractory village only, of the Jidda tribe, withholding its impost of a single horse, paid the penalty of its folly. |
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The folly of that superfluously philanthropic old gentleman should teach us proportion of purpose. |
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This fantastical folly was in all degrees, from the courtier down to the tarter. |
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Art thou not ashamed to take sides with this malapert boy, feeding his passion and folly with thy crazy prophecies? |
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Oh, how you must have despised me for the folly, the meanness of my suspicions! |
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If one appears wise 'tis but because his folly is proportioned to his age and fortune. |
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I should rather say that his intense folly has taken the form of monomania. |
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The central idea of this modern folly about the potato is that you must pilfer the root. |
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Do not suppose that I make this confession of my folly to you in order to propitiate the Deity. |
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I never loved but one woman, and her I outraged by a profligate's motiveless folly. |
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He knew that a debt to folly bears no grace, and was ready with his principal and usance. |
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And if it be a folly, it is one of an old growth, and is rife among our antipodes as ourselves. |
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He was still only a waymark to the kingdom of folly, but she had made a beginning, and she would persevere. |
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It is folly to attempt to oversimplify that which is of its nature complex. |
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You know that my opinions run with yours as to the folly of the king, and the wrongfulness and unwisdom of his policy. |
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It was she too who staged his last youthful folly by giving him the money for printing the pomes Saturniens. |
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She expostulated earnestly with him on the folly of allowing money cares and ambitions to preoccupy him. |
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The folly of it, the ingratitude of it, the hardness of it, the presumptuousness of it. |
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And now tell me, what higher letters of recommendation have they to men than this folly? |
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I found you were ignorant of my incognito, and I was equally ashamed to continue it, or to become the relater of my own folly. |
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Sometimes Sally would glower across at May, bitterly hating her and riddling her plumpness and folly with the keen eye of malice. |
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She was very angry with Miss Bowes, with RONA, and with herself for her own folly. |
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Oh, ossa on Pelion, mount piled on mount, of error and folly! |
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Banstead's blatant folly had been enough to set any man in a rage. |
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Sir Richard was expatiating on Ashe's folly in marrying such a wife. |
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To take to the mountains would have been a purposeless folly. |
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So long as you know when mealtime comes, to plan further is folly. |
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He has no conception of what to do, and his folly is to feign folly. |
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Post-Impressionism is no specific against human folly and incompetence. |
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The unconstitutionality of this act was as palpable as its folly. |
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He had but the vaguest idea of the folly that possessed her. |
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Who slips to the seat of question and melts all Into one potch of folly! |
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It is the triumph of insignificance, the apotheosis of foppery and folly. |
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That which keeps the world going, the fount of life, is folly. |
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And was not all secret revolutionary action based upon folly, self-deception, and lies? |
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At last Gallup was beginning faintly to realize the extent of his folly. |
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The exaggerated folly of the threat, the passionate gesture that accompanied it, the mad melodramatic words, made life seem more vivid to her. |
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A satirical account of this folly is given in Swift's miscellanies, vol. |
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And you may render by folly or good nature, choose you whether. |
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I had an instinctive feeling that it would be folly to let one's temper effervesce often with such a man as Edward. |
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Then let us be jolly And cast away folly, For grief turns a black head to gray. |
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To folly, to pretension, to presumption, he showed but slight forbearance. |
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It was fate that deprived them of the sight of their right eyes, but mine was lost by my own folly. |
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Vincy's wishes about his son had had a great deal of pride, inconsiderateness, and egoistic folly in them. |
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Ought she to repine at the fruit of her own indiscretion and folly? |
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What is to be said about the folly and cowardice of the suicide's act? |
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It was worse than folly to think of beating back in such a head sea. |
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It was insensate folly on his part, ridiculous from any point of view. |
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The folly of such a government corrects and tempers its atrocity. |
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Did not I, even I, in thy presence, backslide into intemperance and folly? |
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Now he is joyous to the point of folly, anon gloomy as a hypochondriac. |
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They expect the folly of its leaders to inure to the benefit of the Whigs. |
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I came not to inveigh against the folly or malignity of such conduct. |
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He suffered too much under a conviction of irremediable folly. |
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I hold it folly in him who must die that he should bemoan himself. |
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I have come to prevent you from going, from perpetrating this folly. |
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Well served eleven day by day, To folly the twelfth did me bewray. |
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Suddenly she seemed to him most pathetic in her wilful folly. |
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Ingres' persistence looked like folly, even madness in his eyes. |
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I tell him to folly that up with a airplane spin and a body slam. |
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Nothing can be done thoroughly because of this hindering folly. |
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The other canon shook his head in dismay at such arrant folly. |
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Nothing, but that the lessons of her past folly might teach her humility and circumspection in future. |
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Had she done this terrible thing by her own shortsightedness and folly? |
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What folly to be hankering after our neighbor's chalk line and gimlet! |
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I saw the wild folly of my frenzy overnight, and I could reason with myself. |
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To attempt to find their way through the labyrinth was folly. |
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Why this excess of intelligence, used mainly for the exploiting of folly? |
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You might remember that you are not the only person that's hurt by your folly, by your hastiness, by your recklessness. |
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My friend, if cause doth wrest thee, Ere folly hath much oppressed thee, Far from acquaintance kest thee Where country may digest thee. |
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Perchance there is another answer, though who am I, my father, that I, in my folly, should strive to search out the way of the Unsearchable? |
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He had pitilessly resolved not to repeat the folly of the previous month. |
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This is a low-minded Indian, and one easily hurried into folly. |
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Yet he failed not to regard these indulgences as utter folly. |
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Her folly and rapacity will sooner or later have their effect. |
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She thought it was her signor marito who had sent them, and she cried a little and said it was a folly. |
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I lamented my own folly and wilfulness, in attempting a second voyage, against the advice of all my friends and relations. |
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But it may be that I am underestimating the alacrity of human folly in rising to the bait. |
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But Thou, O God, didst stop me short and showed me my folly. |
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Opera at both houses had been killed, mainly by the folly of party strife. |
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Then, with scorn for my folly, I ran out into the hall, crying for help. |
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All that remains of this cruel folly are a few ruins at Maintenon. |
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He acknowledges his folly for having ever spoken lightly of matrimony. |
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It was folly to have thought of going in the first place, let alone staying. |
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A madness was upon me and I repeated the folly, the offense, but again ineffectually, and I had the decency to desist. |
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But King George and his Tory ministers were obstinate to folly. |
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His frankest plays, as we have indicated, are attacks on vice and folly, and sometimes, it is said, had important reformatory influence on contemporary manners. |
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Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left. |
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With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations beyond which the folly and ambition of governors cannot go. |
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With such an ignorant and deceivable majority, States would soon run to ruin, but that there are limitations, beyond which the folly and ambition of governors cannot go. |
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As for you, Raoul, I am sure it is your fault, some giddiness or folly. |
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They are committing themselves to a misleading survival handbook while glozing over their folly not with talk of evolution but with the comforting hum of the Machine. |
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Sunny flower-filled terrace, ruined folly, luxuriant fernery, oriental garden with teahouse, towering bamboos, gothic summerhouse and shell grotto. |
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But although she wondered, she could not help loving him the better for his odd combination of Spartan self-control and what appeared to her romantic and childish folly. |
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I owe such a grudge to myself for the stupid, rascally folly of my own heart, that all my past sufferings under it are only triumph and exultation to me now. |
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Even Lady Janet was not far enough gone in folly to abet him in this. |
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But as long as my folly don't affect others, I can stand it. |
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I selected Sylvie as my informant, because from her I knew that I should at least get a sensible answer, unaccompanied by wriggle, titter, or other flourish of folly. |
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For should Man finally be lost, should Man Thy creature late so lov'd, thy youngest Son Fall circumvented thus by fraud, though joynd With his own folly? |
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The proportion of folly stressed lines in figure 2 reveals the underlying structure of the stanza, which consists of three quatrains and a couplet. |
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There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission. |
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It was sheer folly to attempt to trace a woman who had gone I knew not whither, and who herself informed me that she meant to pass under an assumed name. |
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And whether she once lived or no, I am convinced that she no longer survives, and that therefore it is the merest folly to waste our own lives and happiness in seeking her. |
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First mate angry, said it was folly, and to yield to such foolish ideas would demoralise the men, said he would engage to keep them out of trouble with the handspike. |
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But if I can be the means of restraining the publicity of the business, of limiting the exhibition, of concentrating our folly, I shall be well repaid. |
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The painful remembrance of the folly it had helped to nourish and perfect was the only emotion which could spring from a consideration of the building. |
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