"Molly told me all about it, and it struck me as a merely silly lovers' quarrel, but she won't hear of a reconciliation.

People often said to me, "What a splendid brother you have, Miss Pennyman but what a pity that all these handsome brothers have to be given up to stronger ties!" How utterly silly!

With Treadwell it happened to be one of those violent though unusually silly affairs known as "love at first sight.

The Impression, believe me, Sir, was so strong upon me, that I am persuaded, if I had been let alone in it, I could at an Extremity have ventured to defend your self and Sir ROGER against half a Score of the fiercest Mohocks: But the ludicrous Epilogue in the Close extinguish'd all my Ardour, and made me look upon all such noble Atchievements, as downright silly and romantick.

And, besides, it was so unutterably silly!

"Will your father think I'm dreadfully silly?"

She was awfully silly in some ways, once you got her into a certain line; that marriage, that title, and she used to think of it night and day.

When father met us in Redmire Wood, a horribly silly impulse made me hide.

You may think me impossibly silly, but I never supposed that he could get down.

She had been incredibly silly in the Mission church.

"Your mother must think me an intensely silly woman," she sighed.

You little silly!

" "You are marvellously silly, Ellen; mamma is just the same to you as usual, I have observed no difference.

It's mighty silly, faith, just the same thing by my wife, too; I am told she's extremely handsome

Over and over agin I have showed people 'ow silly they 'ave been to do certain things, and told 'em wot I should ha' done in their place, but I can't remember one that ever gave me a "thank you" for it.

I cannot suppose that any thing you have said should occasion this rupture, and the reputation of a quarrel is always so ridiculous on both sides, that you will oblige me in mentioning it to her, for 'tis now at that pretty pass, she won't curtsey to me whenever she mets me, which is superlatively silly (if she really knew it), after a suspension of resentment for two years together.

"Camilla wrote me that I must beware of my peace of mind the moment I first set eyes on you" "Camilla Lent is supremely silly, Mr. Berkley" "Camilla is a sibyl.

"Silly," she said, tenderly, "I have no fear save that you should prove unkind.

This she thought, on sober second thought, a trifle silly, as trees never did laugh!

To sacrifice a cat was monstrous and horrible, but it was also uncouthly silly.

He was really almost unendurably silly, though, about England and freedom and religion, and right and wrong things like that.

He was unmistakably silly about Sofia; though that didn't impress her, too many of the regulars were just as hard hit, one more or less didn't count.

"That I am unpardonably silly, and that you must not dream of going back to your vessel.

The suspicion which had crept into my mind was so absurd, so unspeakably silly and impossible, that I laughed at myself, and dismissed the crazy thought.

It makes me feel like a womanhow silly of me!" Her face and throat looked ghastly white for a moment in the sheltered candles.