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Example sentences for "foolishly"

Lexicographically close words:
foolis; foolish; foolishe; foolisher; foolishest; foolishment; foolishness; fools; foolscap; foor
  1. I behaved foolishly and I'm the first to regret it, because I like fairness in everything.

  2. The hands began to complain among themselves, asking to be paid fairly, and foolishly went to the police, though without much disturbance, for they were not so very much excited.

  3. Only, this time, do not let it be a professor's wife who foolishly destroys herself, and cuts short what might have been a brilliant career.

  4. I knew that she referred to the evening when I had yielded foolishly to the fascination of her presence.

  5. I am sure it jarred upon him that the band foolishly played a welcome when Mrs. Falchion stepped on the deck.

  6. He was true to her yet, and she had acted foolishly in keeping aloof from him so long.

  7. You may talk, as foolishly as you please, but not unconventionally; whether I am or am not conventional is not a matter that concerns you.

  8. What possessed him was a transient form of idée fixe, and he had behaved very foolishly in playing fairy-godfather to a dear little girl.

  9. While waiting for his arrival, the Duke took upon himself the discharge of no less than five offices, conduct which, though in fact perfectly wise and reasonable, was foolishly complained of at the time as unconstitutional.

  10. Lord George Gordon was arrested and foolishly tried for high treason.

  11. They determined to take notice of the sermons, and, foolishly disregarding the advice of Somers, they proceeded by the extraordinary method of impeachment instead of the common process of law.

  12. We are not content to "let well alone;" but too often foolishly speculate upon the future, and fall into some present snare.

  13. Dost thou think, however, that they foolishly imagine that that thing is best deserving of all estimation which they may consider most desirable?

  14. On the same principle it is that I never suffer my children to join in the conversation of grown people, or foolishly imagine themselves on an equality with them, because they are permitted to prattle.

  15. So William Neeltje lived on with his secret, smiling foolishly towards the world.

  16. She seemed at times absurdly over-confident, at times foolishly afraid; but her giggle consistently endured.

  17. The young naval commander foolishly allowed himself to be annoyed by this proceeding on the part of the Yankee, and resolved to administer an appropriate rebuke.

  18. I had a vague, indefinable feeling that I had subjected myself to him; that I had foolishly placed myself under his thrall.

  19. Foolishly I clung to those hours of ignorance, and, like a man who shuts his eyes because he will not see, I forced my mind and heart not to remember or forebode.

  20. Two of them stood blinking foolishly while the third drew from a light pack a fox skin which he extended for Brent's inspection.

  21. Man, with his pipe in his mouth and sitting in silence, dreams foolishly as some growing girl.

  22. In her heart she knew she ought to tell Esme not to be foolishly hysterical.

  23. Were not the same thin fingers pulling out your secrets now, those secrets you foolishly hinted at?

  24. To rock on switchbacks, taking the front seat for the heart-sinking glides and dips; to come foolishly down watershutes; to slide on mats round perilous curves; to go and laugh at themselves in ridiculous mirrors.

  25. Jerry was almost whispering to Denise Blakeney, making his adoration foolishly conspicuous.

  26. Bertie was his old self then, foolishly merry.

  27. Upon having a family seal and crest made, he apologized for the seeming parade by saying, "I have thought, perhaps foolishly enough, that it might as well be right as wrong.

  28. For a religion to which she had foolishly given herself.

  29. How foolishly she had thought that all life and all the great, seething business of life was to be done down in the towns and the cities.

  30. A 'No Popery' cry has been raised, and the depths of theological hatred stirred up very foolishly and for a most inadequate cause.

  31. The more we love God, the more we love each other; for we find he makes the very love which sometimes we foolishly fear to do injustice to, by loving him most.

  32. She should resist to the last, in the name of God, and so redeem her lost will from the power of this devil, to whom she had foolishly sold it.

  33. Now, why don't you join us instead of so foolishly trying to fight us?

  34. He blinked foolishly as he saw Longworth and Sinclair; then he looked down and found he was similarly bound himself.

  35. Algy Longworth blinked at him foolishly from his position in the middle of a flower-bed.

  36. But Vallance Nestor was far too frightened to resent the insult; he could only stare foolishly at the soldier, while he plucked at his collar with a shaking hand.

  37. Nothing beyond the fact of meeting Lewis abroad, and very foolishly trusting in his honesty.

  38. I had acted foolishly in addressing him in the first instance.

  39. Had she not warned me against this cunningly-devised trap, yet had I not foolishly fallen into it?

  40. Big, lumbering Mutt, who in harness could out-pull any dog in the Northland, rolled about in the snow and barked foolishly in his excitement.

  41. Then I laughed outright, aloud, and altogether foolishly and hysterically.

  42. She, in turn, was gazing at her own foolishly distorted reflection in the polished bowl of the chafing-dish from which I had just served her with capon a la reine.

  43. He sat forward in his seat with a face that looked foolishly threatening.

  44. I felt shaken by a sudden pity for these two bound and unhappy spirits, at that moment so close together, yet groping so foolishly and perversely along their mole-like trails.

  45. There was nothing between her and Harry Trewman--she could honestly say that, and perhaps--perhaps she had acted very foolishly about that young man.

  46. And now, Nick foolishly argued, if any one should discover that he knew where the plunder was hidden, they would believe that he was that boy who had robbed the store!

  47. But he was terribly frightened, and foolishly cautious, and he did not care for justice, nor truth, nor friendship, now.

  48. But Adah has foolishly taken another name, and says nothing of Spring Bank.

  49. Theodore’s mother, whose fat hands lay foolishly in her substantial lap; but the Freule van Borck was not going to stand such sentiments as these.

  50. The moments passed by; he remained without moving; a yellow butterfly came foolishly hovering among the bushes; he did not see it.

  51. Visible shyness was not one of her qualities; but she smiled rather foolishly as she walked, thought Theodore Helmont, and, for so recent a widow, improperly.

  52. Then he seemed to recover himself and smiled foolishly as she moved to a chair.

  53. Tennis looked foolishly easy, but after sending four of the balls beyond recovery he suspected that the game might demand something more than willingness and strength, and relinquished his racquet to watch the girl.


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