In these serious walks probably he was divesting himself of many scenic and some real vanitiesweaning himself from the frivolities of the lesser and the greater theatredoing gentle penance for a life of no very reprehensible fooleries,taking off by degrees the buffoon mask which he might feel he had worn too longand rehearsing for a more solemn cast of part.

Dade drunk and full of coarse foolery was a sight he had never before looked upon; but Dade's presence, drunk or sober, made his own plight seem a shade less hopeless.

The Banquet of Vows given at Lille, in the year 1453, and so called from the obligations entered into by some of the nobles to accompany Philip in a new crusade against the infidels, showed a succession of costly fooleries, most amusing in the detail given by an eye-witness (Olivier de la Marche), the minutest of the chroniclers, but unluckily too long to find a place in our pages.

'A guilty conscience needs no accuser'; but I am sorry you had not pride enough to keep your disgusting fooleries to yourself.

"I'd hate to be looking forward to that life of dull foolery," thought she, as the mossy bastions of Besançon drifted from her horizonshe was journeying up alone, Janet staying on with one of the Saint Berthè women as chaperone.

He knows that trappings make neither the man nor the Christian, and that elaborate suits are often the synonym of elaborate foolery.

But I shall not trouble you any further upon this subject: but, if you have a mind to hear any more of this stuff, I shall refer you to the learned and judicious Author of the Friendly Debates [i.e., SIMON PATRICK, afterwards Bishop of ELY, who wrote A Friendly Debate between a Conformist and a Nonconformist, in two parts, 1669]: who, particularly, has at large discovered the intolerable fooleries of this way of talking.

This is getting at a solution of words into their component parts, not glossing over one difficulty by bringing another to parallel it, nor like saying with Mr. Harris, when it is asked, "what a Conjunction is?" that there are conjunctions copulative, conjunctions disjunctive, and as many other frivolous varieties of the species as any one chooses to hunt out "with laborious foolery."

[Footnote 28: "Since the little wit that fools have was silenced, the little foolery that wise men have makes a greater show.

It was mere foolery your going to that kabak.

But the ultimate of all sane European policy, as distinguished from oligarchic and dynastic foolery, is the establishment of the natural map of Europe.

These, with many other ridiculous fooleries, were imposed upon the credulous people, as they were very much attached to divination.

the answer will be, "Strip it of its silken fooleries,let it lie on the ground, the broad bosom of its honest, hearty mother,teach it the wholesomeness of brown bread and cresses, fairly earned, and water from the spring,and let it wait on itself, and wait for the rest!"

The imputation upon the legitimacy of the young child was occasioned in a great degree, and almost justified, by the pilgrimages and superstitious fooleries of his grandmother, increased by his mother's choosing St. Francis Xavier as one of her ecclesiastical patrons, and with her family attributing the birth of the prince to his miraculous interference.

Nothing can be so surprising than to find so wise and valorous a people as the Romans addicted to such childish fooleries.

These from their graves See asses and knaves, Base idiot slaves, With boastings and braves Offer to upfly To the heavens high, With vain foolery And rude ribaldry.