We sat side by side, and determined there should be none of the foolish weakness exhibited by other generations of leaving monitors.
That's what's expected of tenth transmitters of foolish faces, isn't it, George?
Peradventure "The Saints and Sages that discussed Of the two Worlds so learnedly are thrust Like Foolish Prophets forth; their words to scorn Are scattered, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
He must fag--like Dainton minor; and be flogged like Dainton minor if he break our foolish rules.
Then you will laugh at me, perhaps, but I am almost as foolish about our cellars.
My dear lady," he protested, "I can assure you that this is a foolish fancy.
I can't even see that it is foolish to ask a perfectly reasonable thing for people whom you like.
Foolish we may have been, but the gentry have always had their weaknesses.
We will be as we have always been; and neither this foolish talk nor any other thing shall part us or make us less to each other than we are this hour.
Philip was cast down, all the more so because he had been so foolish as to send the news to Philadelphia before he knew what he was writing about.
He said there was now but one chance of finding coal against nine hundred and ninety nine that he would not find it, and so it would be wrong in him to make the request and foolish in Mr. Montague to grant it.
An Angel came to me and said, 'O pitiable foolishyoung man!
Pride of reason" is a foolish thing for any clerical defender of the "faith" to impugn; such pride is essentially humility.
Knowing that without liberty there can be no loyalty, he did not fear, whether in his work or his life, to challenge and to deride the misconstruction of the foolish and the fraudulent.
Whether it be right or wrong, foolish or wise, we will neither inquire nor assert: the autocercophagous monkeys of the mill may be left to settle that for themselves with "Urizen.
Observe here the answer by anticipation to the old foolish charge of madness and belief in mere material visions; a charge indeed refuted and confuted at every turn we take.
But foolish men, vain men, envious men forbade our government to do in larger form the same sort of acts which, done by private auspices, we applauded as evidence of Christian purpose.
A policeman on every corner would be a bad index to the citizenship of the community, for it would reflect a foolish concept of conditions by the municipal officers.
The very night before--perhaps at the actual moment when the deed was being done--I did a foolish thing!
I couldn't have asked for any two people to look more foolish 'n they did.
On the way, I complained about the foolish way in which Kit had acted, for the sole purpose of drawin' the Friar out and gettin' his views on women.
If you have suffered by this foolish panic, you do not mend matters by thus treating me.
Sir Arthur," said the girl, "is there no way to stop this foolish matter?
Foolish or wise, she was as she was; since, under our frail society, life is as it is.
If that's all you want to know, I can tell you," said Tommy Tit, jumping out into the air to catch a foolish little bug who tried to fly past.
A philosopher is one who believes that it is foolish to think about things that have happened, except to learn some lesson from them, and that the best thing to do is to make the most of the present.
Of course he heard the foolish gossip of Jenny Wren and he pricked up his ears.
Now, Ethel, you are working yourself up into a state of foolish prejudice.
Aubrey, who indignantly declared that he never said so, only Gertrude was so foolish that she did not know Harry from Ulysses.
It was very foolish of Margaret to be so frightened.
Ethel's mode of pleading was unfortunate; the "very foolish of Margaret" were the very words to displease.
I never recollected what a silly, foolish girl I am, and how unfit.
I thought you had outgrown closetings and foolish secrets," said Flora.
But there, dear Ethel, I am not going to cry; do call papa, or he will think me foolish again.
We are getting into the heroics," she said, "when it would be very foolish to break up our plans, only because we have found a pleasant cousin.
That is very different from us foolishyoung ones and our trumpeting.
Foolish boy, what business had he to meddle with those accursed books, when he knew what they were made of--it was tasting poison, it was running into temptation!
Surely the day has gone by for the old foolish ideas.
He has undoubtedly sold all those rifles to Germany, and that is to say that we shall have the old foolish scares again and very soon.
A foolish kind of letter at the best--I remember every word of it.
He that hears and obeys not is likened unto the foolish man who built his house upon the sand; and when rain fell, or winds blew, or floods came, behold it fell, and great was the fall thereof.
This combined admonition and profound statement of truth was emphasized by the Parable of the Foolish Rich Man.
Some pretended to dispose of the matter by voicing anew the foolish assumption that Jesus was but an insane demoniac, and that therefore His words were not worthy of attention.
And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.
They were urged to store their wealth in bags that wax not old,[931] containers suited to the heavenly treasure which, unlike the goods of the foolish rich man, shall not be left behind when the soul is summoned.
To what depths of unreason and hopeless depravity had men fallen, how sinfully foolish and how wilfully blind were they, who saw not that the temple was greater than its gold, and the altar than the gift that lay upon it!
While the foolish virgins were away in quest of oil, the wedding party passed into the house wherein the feast was provided, and the door was shut against all tardy comers.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.
Hunting and hawking are no longer the choice pleasures of knight and lady, but are jeered at by him as foolish and unreasonable pieces of butchery; his pleasures are in the main the reasonable ones of learning and music.
If our necessities compel us to it, I say we are an unhappy people; if our vanity lure us into it, I say we are a foolish and light-minded people, who have not the wits to take a little trouble to avoid spoiling our own goods.
I don't know; it seems a sort of foolish to me, tho.
Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to no purpose.
But all these foolish arguments of old Sag-Harbor only evinced his foolish pride of reason--a thing still more reprehensible in him, seeing that he had but little learning except what he had picked up from the sun and the sea.
Shall I call that Wise or foolish, now; if it be really wise it has a foolish look to it; yet, if it be really foolish, then has it a sort of wiseish look to it.
I told him, too, that he being in other things such an extremely sensible and sagacious savage, it pained me, very badly pained me, to see him now so deplorably foolish about this ridiculous Ramadan of his.
Now, I care not who maintains the contrary, but all this is both foolish and unnecessary.
Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.
The patriotic zeal of Mr. Carter had given rise to foolish stories respecting him.
O folk who scorn my stiff gray gown, My dull andfoolish face, -- Can ye not see my Soul flash down, A singing flame through space?
Thou foolish thing, thou canst not wake, Nor thy tears wedge thy soldered lids apart, But patter in the darkness of thy heart.
Indeed, and it's not my wish that brings me here, sir, and I really know nothing about the case, but I was foolish enough to say down town that Burton had bought a revolver from me Monday morning.
When I heard that he was writing that I thought of giving up mine, but Aldrich insisted that it would be a foolish thing to do.
Wherefore, blind and foolish Mr. Beecher went to his destruction.
So his, and his alone, shall be This fondly foolish heart of mine!
It was a foolish confidence, But now 'tis little joy To know that Law's as slow and dear As when I was a boy!
It was both a foolish and useless protest and Arithelli knew that she would pay afterwards for these snatched moments, but she did not grudge the price, for to her they seemed worth the payment required.
We are always talking of spies till one gets absurdly nervous and imagines all sorts of foolish things.
Farewells were always a mistake, and he had been foolish enough to allow her to sing sentimental verses about doves and people's wandering souls.
Either she had more courage or else she was more foolish even than he could have believed it possible for a female creature to be.
One girl in a roomful of fanatics, (he was one himself, but that did not make any difference,) would naturally stand a very poor chance if she was foolish enough to oppose them.
And then began one of those beautiful andfoolish conversations which all lovers have whose love has been a sure and steady growth.
She and Heyl descended the gang-way, and stood at the dock's edge, looking rather foolish and uncertain, as people do at such times.
It did not concern me, and I was foolishto take part in it, but I maintain that had I encountered the Emperor on that occasion I would have behaved very differently.
My Lord, the King, is wroth that any should dare act as did that foolish man, Kutub-ud-din.
It were foolish to distrust so just a monarch, yet what say you if we choose rather to proceed to Burdwan?
I know no officer in the 55th, or any other regiment, who would be likely to do so foolish a thing; nor do I think I myself would do so foolish a thing as to marry an officer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foolish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
