Sentence examples for silly fellows from inspiring English sources

The poor tax-collectors chasing after the illusive profit statement remind me of those silly fellows in pith helmets chasing butterflies.

(A gomeril is a silly fellow, and the austere but seriously self-deprecating sage is at times happy to portray himself as a gomeril).

He demanded that the furniture be sent back and that those responsible — including "that silly fellow who had his picture taken next to the bed" — be transferred to Alaska.

His aide laughed and the President joined him: "Now, what about transferring his ass out of here in about a month?...For incompetence, not for screwing us...And that silly fellow who had his picture taken next to the bed, have him go up to Alaska".

"He was this rather silly, giddy, predatory fellow who was extraordinarily unattractive-looking," Richard Howard recalls.

There is a now complete lack of genuine tactical insight (once his forte); instead we have rash rhetoric, silly arguments with his fellow sofa-sitters and a surprising degree of ignorance.

Reciting the silliest lines to fellow addicts made you feel part of a gang.

Overzealous police, for instance, took it upon themselves to arrest half a dozen fellows who were silly enough to think they might add a few posters counselling a no vote to the countless thousands chorusing YES.

The idea, incidentally, that a short-ish fellow wearing a silly blue hat might inflict any damage on a 6ft 4in professional sportsman from a tough estate in Peckham is fairly difficult to believe.

But, don't waste time on lazy, silly or dishonest students or fellow workers -- or those who don't need (or want) your assistance.

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