His eyes hae been opened to the folly and sin that are compreehended in sic a life.
As illustrative of his folly during that spree, he purchased a general store for the sum of one thousand pounds.
Humpy Bob was an eccentric character, well known on a dozen goldfields, whose shrewdness as a gold finder was countervailed by his incredible folly in spending his riches.
He knew the folly of giving way at this crisis to such a natural sentiment.
Mirth, my love, and Folly dear, Baggages, you're welcome here!
As for your talk about the expense of a nurse, such folly can only be explained on the score of your incredibly avarice, which has become a mania with you of late.
You are right,--it would be follyto commit a crime when easier means would gain the same end.
Oh, you miserable man, what folly to fall into such spasms!
Superstition is founded upon the weakness and folly of mankind, upon ignorance of the true laws of nature; and the churches of every age and clime have used it as the stuff of which they have made leading-strings for the people.
Besides, Dorothea would have achieved greatness if she had not committed thefolly of marrying, thus arresting her scientific development in the bud and retiring entirely from public view.
Nothing is more characteristic of the youthful folly of aged folk than their impatient resentment of proffered hygienic advice.
III Not for such hopes and fears Annulling youth's brief years, Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark!
He exhibits the love of men and women in all its manifestations, from baseness and folly to the noblest heights of self-renunciation.
The compliment of a proposal touches a girl's pride and may prove the entering-wedge of love; hence the proverbial folly of accepting a girl's first refusal as final.
Among the fragments that remain to us of his lost tragedies is one from Dictys, in which occurs this sentiment: "He was my friend, and never did love lead me to folly or to Cypris.
Where coarseness is bliss, 'twere folly to be refined.
Fancy such savages writing or reading a book like The Reveries of a Bachelor and you will understand why stupidity is an obstacle to love, and realize the unspeakable folly of the notion that love is always and everywhere the same.
But he expresses his conviction that the folly will not last long, and the maid departs.
Being rational, it looks not to the enjoyment or comfort of the moment, but to future and enduring welfare, and therefore does not hesitate to punishfolly or misdeeds in order to avert future illness or misfortune.
There was nothing of presumption or folly in Bingley, that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into silence; and he was more communicative, and less eccentric than the other had ever seen him.
But Mr. Bennet was not of a disposition to seek comfort for the disappointment which his own imprudence had brought on, in any of those pleasures which too often console the unfortunate for their folly or their vice.
How grievous then was the thought that, of a situation so desirable in every respect, so replete with advantage, so promising for happiness, Jane had been deprived, by the folly and indecorum of her own family!
To his wife he was very little otherwise indebted, than as her ignorance and folly had contributed to his amusement.
I not only withdraw it, but I apologize to you for my folly in making it.
I know an expedition of folly was promoted at enormous expense, and that the empty barges, numbering something like fivescore, now rest in the deepest part of the Rhine.
It seems to me the utmost folly for a woman at the head of a household, and the mother of children, to spend in an atelier days which would be better employed contriving for the comfort of her family.
Mrs. Baroda was greatly tempted that night to tell her husband--who was also her friend--of this folly that had seized her.
It was folly to have thought of going in the first place, let alone staying.
It seems to me the wise man might have gone farther in his enumeration of the folly and emptiness of life, and pronounced his own prescription for the evil vanity also.
You know what human nature is," returned the Doctor, "and with what hearty satisfaction we abhor and censure sin and folly in others.
And the spirit in charge made answer, saying: "No, nor never shall be while fools live and folly thrives.
They warn us of the folly of trusting to bargain sales of shoddy goods; they warn us against extravagant tastes when times are hard; they warn us against the lazy mood that neglects the stitch in time that saveth nine.
And now how bitter to heart is the taste, And gone are the folly and pride; And I save what I can from the years of waste And stand once more at thy side.
At first the idea seized him that he was no longer on earth at all, but in purgatory, and dressed in a jester's garb, in that his sin had been through the folly of pride and mad ambition.
One folly was added to another, until at last foolishness swelled into crime.
It is folly to expect that a body composed of such men as usually are sent to the State Legislature can resist the temptation to gain power by conciliating numbers.
Seeing the follyof resistance, at a hint from Zephaniah I followed, the three young men occupying the place near the door, as a species of guard.
The folly is in anticipating the natural course of events.
If I see a chestnut forming on yonder branch, it would be an act of exceeding folly in me to suppose that the tree was a walnut, though all the nursery-men in the country were ready to swear to it.
Mary hesitated an instant, changed color, then looked up into my face with a countenance so ingenuous and lovely, that I would have forgiven her even a severe comment on some act of folly of my own.
Both remonstrated, and with so much obvious justice, that I saw the follyof what I was about in an instant, and abandoned my design.
Why, after the engineer of the works, the first who died were the king and the prince whosefolly had brought ruin on the land.
He heard her complain of her folly in buying such cumbersome and weighty things, and ask herself how she was to reach home with them.
Let us pray for them that their hearts may be changed, and that they may see their folly and wickedness," said Ava; and Beatrice repeated the sentiment.
They have some reason and a great deal of folly on their side.
Thus has the folly of my parents condemned me to spend in flattery and attendance those years in which I might have been qualified to place myself above hope or fear.
It was to no purpose, that I represented to my mind the impossibility of recalling the past, or the folly of condemning an act, which only its event, an event which no human intelligence could foresee, proved to be wrong.
I did not gratify his folly with any outcries of admiration, but coldly bade the footman let down the cloth.
These demands of prejudice and folly can never be satisfied; and therefore many of the imputations which learning suffers from disappointed ignorance, are without reproach.
Instead of having the personal ambition which sacrifices the future to the present, he had family ambition,--a lost sentiment in our time, a sentiment suppressed by the folly of our laws of inheritance.
It is sheer folly to give them arms when they have none, or to leave them in possession of arms when they seize them.
Is it not folly to trouble ourselves about a thing that we cannot possibly accomplish?
Once more, he said that we were not to bind ourselves by promises or oaths to the service of those who may constrain us to commit acts of folly and wickedness.
Why do you organize ridiculous tribunals, and send people whom you consider as criminals from France to Cayenne, from Russia to Siberia, from England to Australia, when you know the hopeless folly of it?
In the self-twined meshes offolly and ignorance all flesh poor and in misery, helplessly lying, the king of the law has come forth, to rescue these from bondage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
