O endless vocatives that would still leave expression slipping helpless from the measurement of mortal folly!
"If I can only see my boy strong again," she said, in her loving folly; "and who knows?
You will hardly demand that his confidence should have a basis in external facts; such confidence, we know, is something less coarse and materialistic: it is a comfortable disposition leading us to expect that the wisdom of providence or the folly of our friends, the mysteries of luck or the still greater mystery of our high individual value in the universe, will bring about agreeable issues, such as are consistent with our good taste in costume, and our general preference for the best style of
I said, the fault was in the men—men who truckle to lies and folly.
As to women, he had once already been drawn headlong by impetuous folly, which he meant to be final, since marriage at some distant period would of course not be impetuous.
" "I don't wish to act otherwise than as your best friend, Vincy, when I say that what you have been uttering just now is one mass of worldliness and inconsistent folly.
Casaubon), all the while being visited with conscientious questionings whether she were not exalting these poor doings above measure and contemplating them with that self-satisfaction which was the last doom of ignorance and folly.
The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
"I don't see why, unless it's folly to say the obvious.
First, you are sorry for what you've done, and you see the folly of it all?
" "Really, Rat," said the Mole, quite pettishly, "I think we'd had enough of this folly.
"No," said he, "my father's hands need not be strengthened, and Frederick's confession of folly need not be forestalled.
Her folly, which now seemed even criminal, was all exposed to him, and he must despise her forever.
She was sick of exploring, and desired but to be safe in her own room, with her own heart only privy to its folly; and she was on the point of retreating as softly as she had entered, when the sound of footsteps, she could hardly tell where, made her pause and tremble.
Heaven forbid that Henry Tilney should ever know her folly!
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.
That she might not appear, however, to observe or expect him, she kept her eyes intently fixed on her fan; and a self-condemnation for her folly, in supposing that among such a crowd they should even meet with the Tilneys in any reasonable time, had just passed through her mind, when she suddenly found herself addressed and again solicited to dance, by Mr.
They were always the fruit of folly; and then they were handed on to her, who had done nothing at all to deserve them.
Her old pair had suddenly and completely given out, and this evening she had been compelled to put on the little fancy pair of patent-leather with rather high, slender heels, which she had bought in a fit of folly one day in the winter because of their beauty and because she wanted to make one foolish, extravagant purchase in her life.
She was ashamed of the whole affair—ashamed of her folly in going—ashamed of being found in such a place by Barney Snaith.