Were we to behave ourselves according to this rule, we should not have the just imputation of favouring the silliest of mortals, to the great scandal of the wisest, who value our favour as it advances their pleasure, not their reputation.
But now," said Clara, swimming on the wave in her bosom, "I tax you with the silliest suspicion ever entertained by one of your rank.
Nevertheless, I hated the approach of age, the decay of beauty, the death of magnetism, as bitterly as the silliest woman I had ever met.
But opera, both the silliest and the most exalting of the arts, is the Youth of Life, its perpetual and final expression.
After two hours there was the inevitable second breakfast--one of the silliest time-consumers in German industrial life.
What an opportunity,' he went on, raising his hand to point at the cottage, 'for saying the silliest of conceivable things!
The old bear is sometimes an old goose as well, and torments himself in the silliest way.
With his strange power of reading human nature--masculine human nature, for the silliestwoman could fool him hopelessly--he saw that his nephew was already beginning to struggle against the temptation to yield.
Her slightest gesture had a fascination for the masculine mind; her silliest words a significance.
Which, of course, is quite the silliest thing she can say, as he is standing there regarding her with eyes so full of light and love that the cleverest ghost could not copy them.
As a matter of fact, all that was silliest and most scandalous in the Court life of France in the eighteenth century was reproduced and exaggerated under the Directory.
Girl dolls, especially flowers, are thesilliest things in the world," said Kernel Cob.
The silliestof nurses, in her nursery babble, could hardly suppose that the mighty process began on a Monday morning, and ended on Saturday night.
Then you are more easily pleased than most men, for your idea of the admirable seems to me the silliest thing I have ever heard tell of.
Also I think that I and the silliest boy in Greece played more in one week, that first week of our voyage, than is given to most.
Eh, that was what I meant when I said your notion seemed to me the silliest thing I have ever heard.
A man who foregoes all height of aim, who gives up searching for the best and strives only to gratify his sense of pleasure, (16) is he better than the silliest of cattle?
And would it not seem to be a base thing for a man to be affected like the silliest bird or beast?
For all that I played thesilliest personage in the world; I was charged with crimes by which I never benefited.
Sooner or later folks--even the silliest of 'em--will git onto your game.
A man nervously tired can feel acute disappointment at the smallest, silliest thing.
If you complain, the silliest of them will make you think that her glove is more precious than fortune, and that nothing is so glorious as to be her slave.
He might be foolish, but when the Duchess of Omnium declared him to be the silliest man of the day I think she used a wrong epithet.
Lord Rufford is about the silliest man of his day," she said afterwards to the same lady; "but there is one thing which I do not think even he is silly enough to do.
It's about the silliest little girl you can imagine--a regular mawk of a girl--and a frog.
And yet mother says I'm the silliest little girl that she ever met with, because I am always picking up tricks.
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