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folly sentence examples

  • Folly of mankind shall shatter the seal: he shall rise.
  • This immediately exposes the folly of using the same advisor.
  • Yet they had to witness this utter folly of death by drug addiction.
  • Folly farm for youngsters: situated 9 miles from park.
  • In the victorian era it was partly demolished to provide building material for a garden folly in the manor grounds.
  • Follyn my dog scamp turned his nose up at it the follies of youth!
  • Follyng mr. cecil, like many independent young gentlemen, for some little time gave full reins to the youthful follies of the age.
  • Folly of war gives the book its title.
  • Now, too late, i realized mu folly.
  • To do otherwise is, to me, sheer folly.
  • Folly tower in its grounds.
  • The tower is an eighteenth century folly built in an effort to raise the height of the hill to 1000ft.
  • Folly of the man which brings about this necessary fall; it is his wisdom.
  • We want to make it clear that wc do not commit the folly of confounding the communist party with the fascists.
  • A monumental folly of the highest order which would have seen any respectable company or trade union chairman vacate his seat.
  • It demonstrated the folly of preventive war fought without international support.
  • Esthetic convention allows that an architectural folly, well executed, can achieve a real artistic integrity in its deliberate incompleteness.
  • The current shambles illustrates the folly of allowing mr clarke to stay on to sort out the mess.
  • Take her out to a local fort or a victorian folly.
  • Folly built by the earl of coventry for his wife.

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