Folly
in example sentence
Well, at last I found this amphibious creature, this land-water thing called a gentleman-tradesman; and as a just plague upon my
folly
, I was catched in the very snare which, as I might say, I laid for myself.
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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