: An old man's folly mimics youth— Left hand leash a yellow hound, Right hand perch a falcon proud.
"—as if Ellen's fatness was an added aggravation of her folly.
" "You did not connect the two ideas; that would be folly?
" Thrilling with exasperation, to which it would have been sheer folly to have given vent—for there was no contending with that unsubstantial feather, that mealy-winged moth—I extinguished my taper, locked my bureau, and left her, since she would not leave me.
Great were that folly which should build on such a promise—insane that credulity which should mistake the transitory rain-pool, holding in its hollow one draught, for the perennial spring yielding the supply of seasons.
She is not actuated by malevolence, but sheer, heedless folly.
I say half a wish; I broke it, and flung it away before it became a whole one, discovering in good time its exquisite folly.
Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.
All the bright, beautiful things around it mocked it and laughed at it for its folly.
You—you remember what I told you of my folly that night on the sand-bar?
Let's have done talking about my folly.
I shall return home: it is folly dragging you from the hearth-stone, and pretending—what do we pretend?
I thoroughly gauged his disposition from his behaviour, and saw at once it would be folly to attempt humouring him.
I shrank reluctantly from performing my errand; and was actually going away leaving it unsaid, after having put my question about the candles, when a sense of my folly compelled me to return, and mutter, "A person from Gimmerton wishes to see you ma'am.
I was out of patience with her folly!
There was such anguish in the gush of grief that accompanied this raving, that my compassion made me overlook its folly, and I drew off, half angry to have listened at all, and vexed at having related my ridiculous nightmare, since it produced that agony; though why was beyond my comprehension.
He—probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant—relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me,—a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.
Your error is one that we may admire, and your name has nothing to fear from the judgment of history, which does not condemn heroic folly, but its results.
It would have been pure folly.
The Miss Guests saw an alleviation to the sorrow of witnessing a folly in their Rector; at least their brother would be safe; and their knowledge of Stephen's tenacity was a constant ground of alarm to them, lest he should come back and marry Maggie.
