Sentence examples for old folly from inspiring English sources

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"But, Lord!" he writes, the day after he has had his watch repaired, "to see how much of my old folly and childishnesse hangs upon me still that I cannot forbear carrying my watch in my hand in the coach all this afternoon, and seeing what o'clock it is one hundred times".

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And "Follies," lovely old "Follies," which has fallen during its two previous trips to the rodeo – but has a chance at the spotlight this time around.

The grand staircase on which the old Follies girls make their commemorative descent is now a rickety-looking fire escape.

Giles Swayne London  "Intelligent" Boris Johnson commits the age-old folly of mistaking good fortune, selfishness, narcissism and aggression for intelligence, but unwittingly demonstrates the wrongness of his position.

Some old imperial follies are being replayed in Mesopotamia.

Allardyce's fondness for Nolan is such that he has signed him for three clubs – Bolton Wanderers and Newcastle United as well as West Ham – so he was as perplexed as he was vexed by the 31-year-old's folly, especially as it came only three weeks after Nolan was sent off at Liverpool for an equally foolish tackle on Jordan Henderson.

The Broadway cast will also include veteran talents like Marge Champion, Polly Bergen, Larry Keith, Betty Garrett, Donald Saddler, Carol Woods and Joan Roberts, whose Broadway debut came in 1943 in the original cast of "Oklahoma!" Matthew Warchus, who will direct the show, starting at the Belasco on April 5, was 5 years old when "Follies" was first produced.

In 1540 42 he briefly renewed his youth in marriage to the 20-year-old Catherine Howard, whose folly in continuing her promiscuity, even as queen, brought her to the block.

"Not that his family are particularly interested in their old man's youthful folly.

Even when these books did not directly indict the follies of old men responsible for those campaigns, the connection was obvious.

They were constructing a sturdy, purposeful and deluxe outbuilding, the kind that seems to have replaced those follies of old — fake ruins, whimsical garden sheds — as a must-have country-house accessory.

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