Folly
in example sentence
"Why, Henry, you are as saucy as your sister; and to break in upon your
folly
, I must take you to see my new home-made manufactures, which I will be bold enough to put in contrast with the finery of Birch."
More example sentences with word folly
It's called Seward's
folly.
There is perhaps no better demonstration of the
folly
of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.
Some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice."
Don't even let your children see it lest their tiny minds be warped by the even tinier minds of those who financed, fabricated and filmed this frightful
folly.
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