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Sentences ending with folly

I could tell you a tale of their folly! [10]
Perhaps I am wrong in implying that alchemy is an extinct folly. [6]
Oh, but I will wreak a deadly vengeance on--" Folly! [5]
Better, after all, to deal with a fool according to his folly. [9]
At any rate, this modern notion of giving them their liberty is sheer folly. [9]
He said to the people in a clear but less steady voice, for I could see that the woman had disturbed him, "Go pray to be forgiven for your insolence and folly. [11]
And as for the navy, it is folly. [9]
Pierre clutched his temples, and turning round went into the forest, trampling through the deep snow, and muttering incoherent words: "Folly... folly! [2]
To raise a structure without first securing a solid foundation would be an act of rashness and folly. [10]
It is not seemly, at this hour, to yield to the spirit of hate; but she who is lying in her last sleep above would not have counselled me by a single word to such suicidal folly. [10]

Short sentences using folly

The Folly needed watching. [9]
It is folly, madness! [10]
The folly of it! [5]
This is open folly. [7]
But mind, curb folly. [5]
Nay, 'tis folly, folly, folly! [5]
This is folly. [11]
Folly! [10]

Sentences containing folly two or more times

Its hidden motive will illustrate a but-little considered fact in human nature; that the religious folly you are born in you will die in, no matter what apparently reasonabler religious folly may seem to have taken its place meanwhile, and abolished and obliterated it. [5]
I am a great friend of constancy too, but quite as great an enemy of folly, and is there one among you who would not call it folly to fret over what cannot be undone? [10]

More example sentences with the word folly in them

Need I tell you that I am a lost and despised man if I am found guilty of this act of the maddest folly by the judges of my own house? [10]
I can now write in perfect security to the Emperor that all will be ready for him in Lochias, and as a farewell speech, I can only say, it is folly to be discouraged if only Pontius is at hand to support and assist me. [10]
Such folly is worthy of you. [10]
Nor was it without great surprise and much speculation on Quilp's probable motives, nor without many bitter comments on Dick Swiveller's folly, that his friend received the tale. [12]
Then the priest went up to him, and said: "You said you were ready to take the consequences of your folly, and a prince's word must be kept. [10]
It was not until they were landlocked once more, and the Folly was reluctantly beating back through the Narrows, that he spoke again. [9]
And from the two propositions a third is deduced, which is that the gentlemen composing the meeting are resolved on doing their part to maintain our common government and country, despite the folly or wickedness, as they may conceive, of any administration. [7]
Once more the truth overwhelmed, the folly of his former optimism arose to mock him. [9]
He then represented to them the fearful risk to which their folly had exposed them, and insisted very positively on their returning home and, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, taking a bath and putting on fresh garments. [10]
Now she wants to inflict on the old man, Barine's grandfather, whom she loves, some injury which the spoiled, imprudent woman will scarcely accept quietly, and which will rouse her to commit some folly that can be used against her. [10]
They only managed to convince me that my love of folly was ineradicable, and that I was on my way head first for perdition. [9]
I am going to be myself--my genuine self, my honest self, my natural self, clear and clean of sham and folly and fraud, and worthy of you. [5]
I must end this folly straightway. [5]
Folly, you will think, but I know what I know, and now I must go. [10]
Was it because the star was hid awhile, That I in blindness wandered from my path; That I wooed Folly with her mumming smile, And sought for Lethe in a cup of wrath? [11]
They hope that the folly over which they waste so many hours will smooth their way to the fields of the blest, and yet they themselves close the road by the pleasures they indulge in. [10]
I couldn't see the folly of such an undertaking--the supreme irony of it, until--until it was pointed out to me. [9]
Mr. Truesdale was the first, in his section, to be inspired by the happy thought that the one man preeminently fitted to represent the state in the present crisis, when her great industries had been crippled by Democratic folly, was Mr. Theodore Watling. [9]
The Colonel noticed the action, and he almost said "no," but he thought of the folly of attempting concealment. [5]
And I trust that reflection will convince you of the folly of pushing this matter to the extreme. [9]
The folly of so wrong-headed a fashion of singing such words was plain to Ann, in whose very blood, as it were, lay all that was most choice in musical feeling, and Herdegen's smile brought her a calmer mind again. [10]
He had hoped, so he said, that I had become a good loyalist: perchance as I grew older I would see the folly of those who called themselves Patriots. [9]
The sheet was shortened, and the Folly obediently headed westward against the swell, flinging rainbows from her bows as she ran. [9]
If that isn't sheer folly and a sin and a shame. [10]
General opinion (had she waited to hear it among the horse sheds or on the green), that Jethro's soul had slid back into the murky regions, from which it were folly for even Cynthia to try to drag it. [9]
Philip determined to see her, and put himself in possession of the truth, as he suspected it, in order to show Harry his folly. [5]
At about the same period he wrote the work which proved the great excitement of his mind upon the subject of the transient folly then before the public. [6]
I've seen men ruined before this, because of an hour's passion and folly. [11]
If the ambassador retires without having gained his purpose the balance will be greatly--enormously, in our favor, and it will cease to be a folly to believe in the success of our cause. [10]
While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. [7]
The man then read the future for each of us; my fortune was sheer folly, whereof no single word ever came true. [10]
And we will reach this, too, if we do not ourselves relinquish the chance by the folly and evils of disunion or by long and exhausting war springing from the only great element of national discord among us. [7]
When Alison had put into execution the astounding folly (to the Gore mind) of rejecting the inheritance of millions to espouse a profession, it had been Charlotte Plimpton who led the chorus of ridicule and disapproval. [9]
He declares that providing for the body is the greatest folly, while the Egyptian religion, in which Anubis strove to strengthen her faith, maintained precisely the opposite. [10]
He will not protect himself, and, if penalty followed folly, should now be in his grave. [11]
Loveless and malignant privity, miserable folly, and such schemes as might have been dreamed of in a mad-house! [10]
When this good priest was alive she felt she had a friend who was as large of heart as he was just, and who would not scorn the fool according to his folly, or chastise the erring after his deserts. [11]
Apparently the others present had deemed competition with such as Jenkins and young Colfax the grossest folly. [9]
So far as possible, let not such experiences breed in you a contempt for those who are the subjects of folly or prejudice, or foster any love of dispute for its own sake. [3]
This one was Pontius the architect; and yet, strangely enough, it was precisely her remembrance of him that urged her on from one folly to another. [10]
Shall it but pluck the sleeve of wantonness, And gently chide the folly of our time? [11]
It is not pleasant to reflect that some day one's own folly might place one in alike situation. [9]
If you will permit me to be as frank as you have been, it appears to me as sheer nonsense and folly, and if it were put into practice the world would be reduced at once to chaos and anarchy. [9]
That folly is past and over. [10]
I mention it only to show to what heights of folly the young men had gone. [9]
That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. [2]
The Arab at once recognized his foe of the previous evening; but they soon came to a friendly understanding--Paula confessing her folly in holding a single and kindly-disposed man answerable for the crimes of a whole nation. [10]
But--" "Oh, folly, oh, madness, my King! [5]
In the light of Fulkerson's history of the family, its origin and its ambition, he interpreted it to mean a sense of her sister's folly and an ignorant will to override his opinion of anything incongruous in themselves and their surroundings. [8]
Thou wouldst make of Egypt another England; thou wouldst civilise the Soudan--bismillah, it is folly! [11]
Even more eloquent of democratic folly was that part of the town through which we presently passed, streets lined with rows of dreary houses where the workers lived. [9]
Number Seven saw nothing but the folly and weakness of the "rhyming cranks," as he called them. [6]
Yet they would not speak, that they might not mar our joy, albeit Uncle Pfinzing growled forth that our plan was sheer youthful folly, wilfulness, and the like. [10]
Besides, the young noble, Pyramus Kogel, himself probably thought of no such folly. [10]
The world was noble, now its sordid casement Glows but with garish folly, and the plains Of rich achievement lie in mean abasement-- Ah, Hope is only midwife to our pains! [11]
Certainly she felt no inclination to repent or to blame herself; still it had been a great folly on her part to call him into the house for the sake of amusing herself with him. [10]
I have spoilt my own life by my own folly, weakness, and guilt; and I have lost Paula, who is dearer to me than all the other creatures on earth put together. [10]
Do you think my anxiety was folly? [10]
Hans mocked at my alarms and at a maid's folly in ever taking to herself matters which concern her not. [10]
Imagine such human muck as this; conceive of this folly! [5]
It needs as much skill to carry folly as to be an ambassador. [11]
Can a sensible man like you have sunk so deep in folly? [10]
As surely as man is the standard of all things--if it were so, then, then folly would be truth and right.--I, I--my desire--the aim to which my life was devoted. [10]
It was certainly magnificent; but it was magnificent folly. [11]
All pleasure of life is gone, and they've folly enough to think they can resist the fleet. [9]
Think what folly it is to cast them aside in favor of palpable impositions stolen from the records of forgotten charlatanism, or of fantastic speculations spun from the squinting brains of theorists as wild as the Egyptian astronomer. [6]
To be wise is to be secret, and she had learned some wisdom; and the Young Doctor wondered if the greater wisdom she must learn would be drunk from the cup of folly. [11]
I suppose it is folly to contest a case where the Railroad Commission has completely exonerated your client," Austen added thoughtfully. [9]
She had an instant of hesitation, of an almost panicky desire to go back and repair her folly, ere it was too late. [9]
Mr. Wiley was in love, there could be no doubt about that, and if he had not always meant marriage, he meant it now, having reached a state where no folly seems preposterous. [9]
His sense of humour intervened if he allowed himself to dream; there was a certain folly in pursuing the acquaintance, all the greater now that he was choosing the path of opposition to the dragon. [9]
He threw back his gown and tilted his cap, and lighting his pipe began to speak of that act of Townshend's, passed but the year before, which afterwards proved the King's folly and England's ruin. [9]
None had championed him save himself, and even from the consequences of rashness and folly he had risen to a still higher place in the kingdom. [11]
His past was here--its posing, its folly, its pitiful uselessness, and its shame. [11]
Fierce indignation for her own folly suddenly seized upon her with such overmastering power that she looked away from the sovereign toward the singers, who were summoning the whole world to pay homage to yonder broken-down man, as though he were a demigod. [10]
I could not help reflecting bodingly upon the intemperate zeal with which middle-aged men are apt to surfeit themselves upon a seductive folly which they have tasted for the first time. [5]
I can not help perceiving her, yet I have as little desire to meet her gaze as to encounter vanity, worldly pleasure, folly, sin. [10]
On the whole he was full of cheerful confidence, which he felt to be folly, and which nevertheless he could not repress. [10]
The conviction that he had committed a folly, nay, a crime, had taken possession of him directly after the last word escaped his lips, and now tortured him more and more. [10]
In eloquent words he described to Diodoros and Melissa all he had felt, and the terrible consequences of his heedless folly, and as he spoke acute regret filled his eyes with tears. [10]
Before we were halfway up the ascent, we realized the folly of attempting it on horseback; but then to go on seemed as easy as to go back. [4]
News, however sensational, had severely to be condensed in the interest of a cause, and at this critical stage of the campaign to make a tragic hero of Hermann Krebs would have been the height of folly. [9]
His greater discretion had kept me from many a folly, and my need of loving some one found satisfaction in him. [10]
Has my folly gone running through the streets, bare-bosomed, to display itself to the world at large? [10]
When she had gone he began to talk to Janet about the folly, in general, of prohibition, the fuse oil distributed on the sly. [9]
To practise unselfish generosity he regarded as a subtle, exquisite pleasure, which he ventured to allow himself, because he desired nothing more; others, to whom he did not grudge a prosperous career, he must warn against such folly. [10]
But such thoughts generally ended soon in her pressing the little one closer than ever to her heart, and blaming herself for ingratitude and folly. [10]
Pythagoras had already forbidden the folly of spoiling the present by remorse; and he, too, did not do this. [10]
Thy plan was folly, thy hope madness, thy means to achieve horrible. [11]
Yet it is folly to undertake works of this or any other without first knowing that we are able to finish them--as half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost. [7]
It is the folly of the world, constantly, which confounds its wisdom. [6]
It is all folly and yet--and yet! [10]
Thou hast not folly and thou shalt not be answered as if thou wast a fool. [11]
When man shall flee and woman fail, And folly mock and hope deceive, Let cowards beat the breast and wail, I'll homeward hie; I will not grieve: I'll curtains draw, I'll there set free My heart's beloved boon company. [11]
How could they find so much pleasure in such folly, in such senseless amusements? [10]
On the march farther eastward, which began with the first grey dawn of morning, he called this resolute confidence folly, yet strove to retain it and succeeded. [10]
And she had fancied, in her folly, that she could control him! [9]
It was folly electioneering on the day of the poll, and yet he saw a few labour leaders and moved them to greater work for him. [11]
It was her duty, too, to rebuke Bob for the quarrel with his father, to point out the folly of it, and the wrong, and to urge him as strongly as she could to retract, though she felt that all this was useless. [9]
During all this delay and hesitation the minutes slipped away, and at last it was so late that Hadrian might return and it was folly to think of carrying his plan into execution. [10]

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