I have regretted that foolish quarrel many times, and had determined that it should not lead to another meeting between you, which would have been mere folly.

It was sheer folly to advance with our petty force in face of odds so overwhelming, and a council of the officers was called by Colonel Washington to determine what course to follow.

One of the curses of the common people is, 'May the moon eat up your brains;' and in China they say of a man who has done any act of egregious folly, 'He was gathering wool in the moon.'

It not only accepted progress as an unmistakable factmistaking, however, acceleration and facilitation for progressbut in its mad folly believed in an immutable law of progress which, working with the blind forces of machinery, would propel man forward.

In no case would a people so coldly wise, so thoroughly impressed by experience with a sense of the extreme folly of political agitation, legislative change, and democratic violence, have cursed themselves with anything like the press of Europe or America.

It is folly, sir, and you know it, utter useless folly!

And, in effect, the next post from England came laden with speeches and newspaper articles, denouncing, in no measured terms, the 'suicidal folly of rewarding rebels for rebellion.'

" "Nay, Beltane, in faithindeed, these were folly and youthful folly, the tide hath ebbed full oft since then and I, being older, am wiser.

The absurdities and childish follies which he has dared to register under their dictation are almost incredible.

People might gossip as much as ever they liked; but the two always congratulated themselves that they had never committed the supreme folly of falling in love with each other.

In the second place it is gross folly; for a man who fights devoid of freewill and against his conscience, against his temperament, cannot possibly make a good fighter.

There is nothing to be found in them, to flatter a depraved populace, or humour a fashionable folly.

But, with incredible folly, Necker rejected his support, treating his arguments to his face as insignificant, and affirming that their views were irreconcilable, since Mirabeau wished to govern by policy, while he himself preferred morality.

When it came to Stella Starr's turn, Andy witnessed a second exhibition of the superstitious folly of these strange circus folk.

Passionate follies: alternate tales.

But neither could she submit to her present fate without attempting to make Raymond understand his selfish folly.

With a common peasant girl, vigorous and sensual, like this dancer at the fair, he would have gratified the only low permissible to a priest; for it was the most unpardonable folly, he recognized now, to surrender his heart.

The worst disasters which Rome suffered in this war were due not to the storms and still less to the Carthaginians, but to the presumptuous folly of its own citizen-admirals.

This joining of our ranks may show her what she lost by her girlish folly, but it is better for her to know life, and even feel regrets, than never to know.

I tell thee, how foolish I am?)I wished it might have lasted for ever, though we gained nothing, and lost nothing, though it was a mere shade of play: I would be content to go on in that idle folly for ever.

"It begins in a piece of reckless folly.

" "A pretty folly for a man of forty!" cried Signora Martina, still smarting under her late fright.

" "They decampedas you call itbecause your father wouldn't give them any more money," said Regina with flashing eyes, "that was inexcusable folly.

The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know, And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

He showed him the jewels, the receipt he held, and also a large bundle of bank-notes similar to those Schwarz had with such culpable folly given up to the clever rascal in the cab.