"Rather silly of me to complain so.

When men go off the stage so early, it scarce seems a noticeable thing in their epitaphs, whether they had been wise or silly in their lifetime.

" "And if I were a boy I wouldn't be so silly as some I know.

The first argument would apply to a thousand new facts, which physical science is daily proving to be true; and the second, when the reputed size of the sea-serpent is compared with the known size of the ocean, rather more silly than the assertion that a ten-pound pike could not live in a half-acre pond, because it was too small to hold him.

She hoped the doctor wouldn't be silly about it.

"Dr. Grayson makes a lot of rules that are too silly for words.

"Of course I do, dear; and it was sweet of you to buy her for my sake, and I'm quite silly to-night.

As for the lesser villain, he was already silly with drink.

A very good judge may be a wretchedly bad joker; and he must go through his career at this disadvantage, that people, finding him silly at the thing they are able to estimate, find it hard to believe that he is not silly at everything.

At Sydney 'e got silly on another gal, and started walking out with her, and afore he knew wot he was about he'd promised to marry 'er too.

We're getting silly over trifles.

'Tis very disagreeable in her to go about behaving and talking as she does, and very silly into the bargain.

He drank harder after that, till he was getting silly from it, when the girl's death gave him his chance against Van Torp, and he manufactured the evidence in the diary he kept, and went to Bamberger with it and made the poor man believe whatever he invented.

It would have been rather silly by common daylight, but under a yellow sky with stars in it, I think nothing can live but romance.