| 单词 | foolish |
| 例句 | “That’s good. One other point. All officers are ordered to walk. No officer takes his horse. Utterly foolish.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps longer. The place is moderately comfortable, and the plan cannot proceed yet. It would be foolish to act before the Quidditch World Cup is over.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z —Isaac Asimov in the tenth-anniversary issue of The Skeptical Inquirer To follow foolish precedents, and wink with both our eyes, is easier than to think. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My foolish, shallow, affectionate pets, with their obsessions with feathers and parties, nearly break my heart with their good-bye. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Taisin suddenly felt every inch the farmer’s daughter— clumsy and foolish. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The words had scarcely left her foolish lips, Kunti said, when Surya, the God of Day, appeared before her. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It had come to his knowledge, he said, that a foolish and wicked rumour had been circulated at the time of Boxer’s removal. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But was it only the fear of Grandma’s foolish jealousies that made me want to weep? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I may be a young girl, but I am not so foolish as to wed a man who finds a fruit platter more enticing than my breast. I saw which dancers you were watching.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was foolish of me to do so. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I shrugged my ignorance again, feeling more and more foolish. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Lupita’s teacher had told the class over and over that witchcraft was foolish superstition. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z A foolish son is the calamity of his father. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He drooled with delight at Shirley’s foolish struggle to thread him into the chair. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It is also foolish to climb a tree because black bears are adroit climbers and, as Herrero dryly notes, you will simply end up fighting the bear in a tree. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And those old bones were another reason for people to dig elsewhere, despite how foolish it was to be afraid of something so long dead and buried. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “But, ah, mighty all-powerful Lord Mars, if we can’t die, isn’t that a good thing? If we can stay alive indefinitely—” “Don’t be foolish, boy!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The last jealousy is not foolish, nor is it one that will go away just yet. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It had been reckless and foolish, and yet it had felt good to speak my mind. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He emphasized the historical achievements of Africa and Africans, and noted how foolish it was for whites to see themselves as a chosen people and an intrinsically superior race. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He nudges me forward, and, despite how foolish I feel, I open my pillowcase. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z She understood, she wrote, that they were only children; she knew children were often foolish. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Granny shook her head mournfully and muttered, “Lord, hear this foolish child.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sore stomach, but I'm hungry as all-get-out. Hope I didn't do anything foolish at the party.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z “At that time, foolish jokes at the crawlers’ expense may make the difference between our existence and our annihilation. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And Cersei... the golden child had grown into a vain, foolish, greedy woman. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At best Lorren would think I was delusional, at worst, a foolish child. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z What he did was so foolish, however, that in later years it was often said that he had gone mad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He rode off feeling foolish and angry, placed himself in front of the Regiment. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A snack of wild almonds can kill a person foolish enough to ignore the warning of the bitter taste. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s lots of thoughts deep inside me; I ain’t jest as foolish as I seem sometimes.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z A wizard — young, foolish, and gullible — wandered across my path in the forest I had made my home. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Shakespeare frequently uses violations of decorum for comic effect, as witness Bottom’s muddled attempts at eloquence, Pistol’s braggadocio, and Polonius’s foolish high-sounding waffle. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Kathy wondered aloud if there was something foolish in what they were doing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He was looking for one of the foolish birds—he called them foolbirds—and there was a flock that lived near the end of the long part of die lake. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z But one thing I have done well, which pleases me, which I must praise—I have now put an end to that self-detestation, to that foolish empty life. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Also foolish as a cricket when he was excited. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Could they really be foolish enough to try and play hide-and-seek with him? The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, Tandy. I don’t want you to think ill of your parents. I probably should have kept my foolish mouth shut.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z And how foolish must one be to be reassured by the information that no bear has killed a human in Vermont or New Hampshire in 200 years? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr.Jones’s trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “I told her that if I ever saw an angel, then I would believe,” I said, feeling foolish, ashamed, hating and pitying my believing granny. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt foolish, sitting in the warmth with the Elders and the kids. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Then I felt foolish for being so gullible. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “It is indeed. It seems almost foolish to ask,” said Slughorn, who was looking mightily impressed, “but I assume you know what it does?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Finally my turn came and I felt foolish, tense; I wanted to yell for him to stop; I wanted to tell him that all this was so much nonsense. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “But it was just a foolish dare,” I added quickly, before he could respond. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “I didn’t say it was unjustified. I said it was foolish.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It had been foolish to let her go. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “I hope you are telling the truth, because it was both clumsy and foolish. Already you are suspected of having a hand in it.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I feel very foolish saying this. Very, very foolish.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “You know, Matthias, for a mouse that claims affinity with Martin the Warrior, you can be singularly foolish sometimes.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The girl seemed incapable of sorrow, foolish thing. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z If it had not been for her foolish, mischievous talk about his bride she might have stayed on comfortably in Corinth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Such was the foolish logic of this program of social reform: Because many Hispanics were absent from higher education, I became with my matriculation an exception, a numerical minority. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I don’t know Camilla’s side but I think Henry is being very foolish.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Still, there was no way to bring it up now without seeming foolish. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I felt tired and foolish, as if I had been running to escape someone chasing me, only to look behind and discover there was no one there. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “If she were just a foolish girl, she wouldn’t be ranked first, now would she?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z At the height of their passion, it was foolish to reason with them or try to reassure them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Not even you can be that foolish, Nina. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The negative column filled up fastest with words like stupid, disgraceful, foolish, laughable, wasteful, outraged, idiotic, scandalous, uninformed, half-baked, shamefully. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Foolish, foolish decision to leave all those weapons out. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z How could he have been so foolish as to wipe out the spy’s footprints? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “No,” Ma said, her words cracking the air around her, “she left to find a fairy tale. Never-Ending Mountain and the Old Man of the Moon! Of all the foolish things.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He looked down at me, panting, his face foolish, the saliva dripping from his tongue and his heavy jowl. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z For it seemed, quite suddenly, that my decision to drop everything for Greek had been a rash and foolish one, and made for all the wrong reasons. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She looked him full in the face and for the first time, Harry saw her foolish smile falter. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Since we parted ways, I had kept foolish, fond thoughts of Denna hidden in a secret comer of my heart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was weary of feeling foolish and helpless and useless. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “You’re not. Not like you were. Which is why it’s so foolish for people to think you might spread something.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Finding babies lost during the war was a matter of foolish imagination, and she had no time for that. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “After what you have done to me, very brave indeed. Or perhaps you are simply very foolish.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I never thought about it that way before, and now that seems foolish. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “Just a foolish old woman who talks so much that every now and then she gets lucky and says the truth.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt immensely foolish, and for a moment considered running from her rooms. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Because I wasn’t foolish enough to delude myself for this long—I was absolutely, totally, and completely falling for Sahil Roy. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When it slows, she feels a little foolish. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There was a peculiar hilarity in Longstreet’s breast, the mulish foolish hungry feeling you get just before an assault. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But she laughs at this suggestion in a way that makes him feel vaguely foolish. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Still, I felt as if it was the beginning of the end—no, not the end, but of a bad time, and all my plans of this morning seemed thoughtless and foolish. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They con-demned the sabotage as heinous crimes while at the same time deriding it as the work of foolish amateurs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And if not, then could Harry’s death have been more than just an awful coincidence, the result of a foolish choice to pickpocket the wrong man? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z If anyone was foolish enough to enter without permission, he might wander for days without finding an exit. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The members of the Mouse Council sat atop three bricks piled high, and spread out before them was every mouse, old and young, foolish and wise, who lived in the castle. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The letter would remain a mystery, its secrets hidden for ten more years, until someone came along who was brave enough—or perhaps foolish enough—to take up the challenge again. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But then he realized how foolish that was, and he began shaking with silent laughter. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Athena, sweeping down to the battlefield, persuaded the foolish heart of Pandarus, a Trojan, to break the truce and shoot an arrow at Menelaus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He shook his head and said she was foolish not to grab the offer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Tell me, if my asking does not seem foolish, who is Tom Bombadil?’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Aunt Lydia had to admit it was a little foolish of her. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still more foolish to come without an army if he meant to challenge the usurper. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There is so much to enjoy in the world; how foolish to waste even an hour of it hiding away in avoidance of pain. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You’re being foolish. I told you already that we made you.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z While Mrs. Hall tells them both to cool off and points out to Max that it’s foolish to root for a fight, Mrs. Silver waves me toward the door. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Maybe these trips they were planning were foolish. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “As there are so few of us, it seemed foolish to use the House tables....Sit down, sit down!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I did not see how I could run away without looking foolish. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “His mother left upon him the traces of her sacrifice. This is old magic, I should have remembered it, I was foolish to overlook it. . . but no matter. I can touch him now.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “It’s very foolish to neglect the ancestral spirits,” said the gatekeeper. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A foolish beast I was, to think that madness would shelter me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I wish I could make up a new name, but Halmoni says, Do not be foolish. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “I know you’re sorry. For right now, that is. For this one frail, foolish flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. I’m unimpressed—No no! Be still!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the idea of trying to resuscitate Ekon the same way Mama had taught her to resuscitate a kondoo calf seemed more than a little foolish. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I was merely foolish, when I had felt myself dramatic. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Had my foolish curiosity made me inhale something dangerous? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rome took all the vanity out of me, for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z All these foolish inconsequent threads hanging upon one another, because Maxim had killed Rebecca. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z More than once I found myself hearing something personal or foolish read to this audience. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “You chatter too much, you foolish old woman. It is not for us to speak of such things.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And Favell began to laugh, the laugh of a drunkard, high-pitched, forced and foolish, and all the while twisting Rebecca’s note between his fingers. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t foolish enough to give it one. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Do not be foolish. Once they find what they will find, the sight of any wildling will inflame them. Stay here until their blood has time to cool.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s more of those foolish people,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z But in the end, they were just photos, and Grace finally took them away and placed them in a drawer, feeling foolish. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It sounded so foolish and inadequate, as though she had knocked over a favorite houseplant, or forgotten a birthday. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z That he was foolish to think he could wage battle against such evil? The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “I thought some wind had blown up the embers in my foolish mind,” Samuel said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There was no reason to hurry or make foolish mistakes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe it meant, “Is there a banana?” which sounded a little foolish if you considered it. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z "I may have relinquished weapons, demon, but do not be foolish enough to think I've given up an ounce of my power." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She remained standing in place, beginning to feel a little foolish, reluctant to go outside. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t think I did. We were foolish not to think on this.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I have been frightened half out of my foolish wits, but I have somehow earned this joy; I have been waiting for it for so long. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Momma would say I am a vain and foolish girl. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I kept seeing that motherhouse up in the mountains, its roof caving in, its walls crumbling like a foolish house built on sand. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t kill yourself for a foolish dream,” Uncle insisted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And I certainly don't believe your foolish promises! Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry,” said Bernard, feeling and looking uncomfortably foolish. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment he felt a tiny, fluttering hope that he knew was quite foolish. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He gave them a gap-toothed grin, which would have seemed foolish and vacant if his eyes had not been so very blue and so very sharp. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Even if they were foolish enough to believe that the earth was the centre of the univose, do we not ourselves believe that man is the fine flower of creation? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Coronis was foolish indeed to hope that he would not learn of her faithlessness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Liam had confirmed everything that I’d suspected, but it seemed foolish to toss it then, when there was a chance for us to use them like they would have used us. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Why should the king wish to kill my foolish and insignificant father? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I am being foolish, Lord Commander, but... this letter frightens me. See here?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You will explain all of this to me. If you’ve lied to me before, admit it and all will be well. I know boys tell foolish stories sometimes.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z That is the sort of foolish hope you would have,” said Agravaine. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Never got caught—until the chickens, and that was just foolish to begin with. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She told Dad the zoo did not allow the sale of uncooked meat, because foolish people tried to feed it to the animals. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Make as good a time as you can, but take no foolish risks. You have an old man and a suckling babe with you. See that you keep them warm and well fed.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “No need. Nothing is foolish here. Trust the memories and how they make you feel.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z She buried her head in her arms, feeling foolish for having been so sure. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He named it Foolish Carriage because, he said, it was foolish for any man with as many children as he to think he could afford a horseless carriage. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t bear to throw them away, even though I know it’s foolish to be attached to sneakers, like they can bring me home. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was a foolish waste of time playing this game. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I know it was foolish of me to hang on to the past, but there was something about the place with its white brick walls browned by oven heat... Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Sallie was very kind, and often offered her the coveted trifles, but Meg declined them, knowing that John wouldn’t like it, and then this foolish little woman went and did what John disliked even worse. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He always thought over each question carefully, even the most foolish question from the youngest student. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Anything else I should know before I do some other foolish thing?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He smiled that ironic smile of his that always made me feel so foolish. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It made her feel foolish, but she was aware that in renaming her he had claimed her somehow, already made her his own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z How foolish it was to worry and assume the worst—it was Christmas, after all! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Ah. There is a reason, but it is a foolish one, and would become more so in the telling.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I know it would be foolish of me to try to change her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Raji did not say at once that it was all right or that I was very foolish. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He dozed, and allowed himself a foolish dream of her. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z "Only a very foolish commander would take such a vessel that far from his home fleet." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Anticipating criticism by observers outside prison, if not those within, he added, Of course I am not so foolish as to think that I can see it from exactly your point of view. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z An apprentice should never be chosen in haste, but I was foolish. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She knew that the stories about Durham’s streets being paved with gold were just foolish talk, but many of these streets weren’t paved at all. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a foolish, desperate move, and now here she was, stuck on an island with only a week’s worth of pills. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s not afraid to confront people, and she never looks foolish doing so. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z If that’s all that we are—those shadow moments and a bag of gag gifts—then how foolish of me to think I deserved anything of him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He looked at the others, feeling completely foolish. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Cersei only hoped he was not so foolish as to go racing ahead of his army. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In any case, it would have been foolish to waste the few remaining minutes of daylight. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Sydelle was in pain, but she wanted attention on her own terms, not as a hapless, foolish victim of fate. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z She is go.ne and all you have is a bright, foolish imagining to torment yourself with. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “You were incredibly foolish to come here,” she said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I do not care that my foolish belly is growing lazy after all these days of little to do. It must be fed. I will not die because it does not wish to work.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in - particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “No matter what I try to say, you make it sound foolish,” Eleanor said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z General Hill had insisted, after all, that the reports of cavalry in Gettysburg were foolish. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Always as a punishment, the consequence of a foolish love. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Had he watched and laughed as the foolish little girl went off on impossible missions? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It seemed such a deep, foolish betrayal of everything—of himself, me, what we were doing out here. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As I say this, I realize all over again how ridiculous it was for me to do that—how risky, how foolish. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He put the glasses down and smiled a foolish smile. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt that it was all very foolish. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Deprecate used to mean “ward off by prayer,” meticulous once meant “timid,” and silly went from “blessed” to “pious” to “innocent” to “pitiable” to “feeble” to today’s “foolish.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “No, foolish girl; it means she dotes on the boy!” he replied. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “The worst foolish thing is when a religion wants you to say it's the only right one. Or the best one. That’s when I pack my bags and start rolling.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t be foolish. You’re just a bit of a girl and have trouble enough with the one you do be having already. And your man is pretty but not the steadiest boy in the world.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Was there anyone else before whom she could never be foolish? Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I love foolish things. And clever things. I love all the things.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Don’t play foolish now. It’s important I remember. “Broom sedge,” she added, still remembering. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He even glanced at himself in the mirror—and felt foolish to be concerned for his appearance, as though she would somehow see him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z All these little simple, foolish, but tremendously strong, vital, passionate urges and desires no longer seemed trivial to Siddhartha. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw the foolish, abashed expression on Wrestrum's face and relaxed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “None of them Breedloves seem right anyhow. That boy is off somewhere every minute, and the girl was always foolish.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “More than enough,” said Hawkbit, with a kind of foolish importance. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t let go until the plane stopped and the grandmother slipped her hand away and muttered something about foolish people who could not build planes well. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t think the Sixers would be foolish enough to try to barricade all 512 instances of the white house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Finally I gave up my speculations and concluded that in life, as in stories, foolish lovers will go to great lengths, deceiving themselves for the sake of pleasure. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Emily was foolish, going to war, though I suppose I always knew it was her destiny. She hoped to meet your father again.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I had heard of the foolish blunders that small-town boys made when they went to big cities and I wanted to be very cautious. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They asked me to promise that I wouldn’t do anything else “foolish.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z How beautiful, the queen tried to tell herself, but inside her was some foolish little girl who could not help but look about for Daario. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was true that Eva was foolish in the head, but not so bad as to need locking up. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He could only hope that this Jesper character hadn’t been foolish enough to set them free, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I’d not only been childish, but foolish too.l stood there feeling more like a donut hole than all the times I’d been called one. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z He remembered the sleepy, foolish feeling he had had after Praise. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Prepare yourself, foolish boy. Whether you survive this or not, you have sealed your doom!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Boardman said, “You proud, foolish man! I never want to hear another word about it!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I dare say I’m foolish, but there it is. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “But not so foolish as to tell you that. My men shall look at these ships. Then you shall have my answer.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I tried to bury the remembery, but it kept floating to the top of my mind like a cork in a stormy sea, and foolish tears spilled over. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Micay,” she said in a serious tone, “I wish you wouldn’t hide your face. Ucho and those boys are very young and very foolish.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I am the perpetrator of a foolish, deluded crime that became a tragedy. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “Most foolish, ” muttered Gregory as he lifted the cover off the plate, “too foolish to be borne, a world without soup.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The strong old woman was walking away, and in her step there was the sadness of parting with an old but dangerously foolish friend. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t get panicky, or you’ll do something foolish and spoil everything.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I can’t read his face and worry that he finds it foolish or weird. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I realize now it was just plain foolish of me to think he ever would. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “And sad, too. I remember when the mayor was first starting out. He has always been foolish, but not always wicked. I’m sorry to know that the worst side of him has won out.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It did not help to note that her foolish concern had been witnessed by a whole group of early Lecturegoers. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly terrified, he ducks his head, feeling foolish afterward. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And I feel foolish for expecting her to. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z She knew this was foolish—after all, she hadn’t explored the island—but she was so weak she couldn’t help herself. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Pride is a foolish thing, but it is a powerful force. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps a few, the younger arid more foolish who still believed that the gods heard the prayers of desperate men, took it for deliverance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She had not had the advantage of a rigid Cambridge education only to be so foolish as to misuse it. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The thought stunned him and he realized how foolish it had been to leave the lake and trust the map. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I could go then, tap at the window, tell her the situation so she’ll keep Gale from doing anything foolish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But Manet’s reaction to my mention of the Chandrian had shown me how foolish that would be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As he saw it, he had been tortured and nearly died, and his father had been crippled, because of their foolish, self-centered scheming. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Yet she knew she could not leave the foolish crow there to be killed—and killed he surely would be before sunrise—just for want of a few minutes’ work. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She said my alienating the family would one day seem foolish to me, as it did to her. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z I started to hold my breath but realized that was foolish—he knew I was there. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I had been doing foolish things with great frequency the past few days—and most of my life, for that matter—and I now did another. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She had always seemed foolish to him, and often irritated him by picking silly quarrels. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I tried to call it back, to catch it up—a foolish and hopeless matter, because it was definitely and permanently over and finished. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “He is that foolish, Principal,” my mother said as she and Granny began untying me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘No. It is foolish and primitive to keep repeating this about hurt feelings.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Harry, at least, felt extremely foolish, staring blankly at the crystal ball, trying to keep his mind empty when thoughts such as “this is stupid” kept drifting across it. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z You must learn not to care for what foolish people say.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was foolish to think some things were beyond happening, even being attracted to Negroes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigger heard a clock ticking somewhere behind him and he had a foolish impulse to look at it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Galahad,” said Elaine, and she leaned over the wrappings, making the foolish gestures and meaningless sounds which mothers delight to use when their babies ate beginning to pay attention. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “My name is Binu, and you are a very foolish girl. How did you get mixed up with that crowd?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Berga side-stepped this issue and, as far as I can tell, only one person was so foolish as to explicitly present this argument. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She smiled, embarrassed, because she knew it was an odd thing and that he would not understand and could perhaps find her foolish. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that I have decided, I am beginning to worry about something that I know is really foolish: how I look, how I’m dressed. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We had done a foolish thing on our way to Donelson and I will rite you about it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Also foolish: waiting at the window, hoping to see the yard teeming with police officers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “First love makes everyone mad—it’s foolish to throw away your future because of one hormonal decision based on less than a year of your life when you were barely in your twenties.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “These rituals are empty,” Hizdahr declared, “just the sort of thing we must sweep aside. Meereen has been steeped in these foolish old traditions for too long.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Yes. This boy has been away for far less long. He will appear again, of his own accord, and everyone will feel very foolish.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “And hopefully, you’ll live up to your reputation. I anticipate winning, and I won’t be pleased if you make me look foolish.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was all confessed in that single foolish cry. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z My body freezes as it never has in battle, my foolish heart taking control. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Then she is a greater simpleton than I ever believed her. What is the foolish girl about?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I would feel foolish had I come all this way and seen you and not at least asked you.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z UBS wasn’t conspiring against Bobby: They just wanted to get rid of one of their most public and foolish clients. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I feel foolish about it now, but one time I stuffed the gloves with cotton balls and held them through the night. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His words sounded foolish to his own ears. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He was the vicious landlord, the foolish king. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A truthful answer, but one I knew to be foolish, even as it exited my mouth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “You know what it looks like, Isaac? It looks like all the hopes we were foolish to hope.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Pip,” said Estella, casting her glance over the room, “don’t be foolish about its effect on you. It may have its effect on others, and may be meant to have. It’s not worth discussing.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z She had a home to live in, and a family that loved her, and two new best friends who were foolish and brave and wonderful. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z But then his uncle’s wife was a foolish woman, fat and lazy, and forever clamoring for sweet food and for this sort of thing and that and for new shoes bought in the town. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Still, when the sky opened and rain poured down I decided that my fears were foolish. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I think about the many ways I ignored what was in front of me—how blind I was, how foolish not to be on my guard. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They had a passion for order and symmetry, much like the Romans, but they knew how foolish it was to deny the unseen world, the old gods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I said, knowing how utterly foolish the question sounded, yet unable to think of anything else to say. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The answer sounded foolish even to himself, and in the light of what he now suspected it was absurd. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Don’t be foolish, Rose. It’s too late to do anything... tonight. You’re shouting so loud everyone will hear you.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “There was never such a foolish muddle,” Anthony wrote in her diary in response. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Of course it was and she felt foolish for looking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One who was determined to use it all to show everyone that it was foolish to trust what someone wanted you to see. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z This was not his world; he had been foolish in thinking that he would have liked it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The calm efficiency of Frith, and Robert’s rather foolish face, helped me more than my book and my newspaper had done. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps that is why it is so foolish.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Sarai couldn't remember exactly when she had passed away, but it was certainly before her own first bleeding, because her reaction to discovering the old woman’s death had been so foolish. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Daniel gave up everything to devote himself to ending that foolish slaughter,” Harry said of the Vietnam War. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It is not enough to say that these schemes are foolish and certainly doomed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will not see Madoc made to look foolish because of your mistakes.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Some are foolish, most don’t work—but a bit of clicking metal saved my dad’s life. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z Not since her week in Primrose Hill, typing out the novella, and what a foolish excitement that seemed now. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Yossarian had stopped playing chess with him because the games were so interesting they were foolish. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “It was very foolish to catch a fairy, Seth,” Grandpa said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Living in the Bronx and Baltimore had given me the foolish impression that I knew what poverty looked like. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “The brother was young enough to be foolish still. ‘I won’t let you go,’ he said. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The air was fresh and cool as he trudged the shady path, and he began to feel foolish about his worries earlier in the day. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Each time I received a shock, my expression changed to an absurd wide-eyed stare, and then that foolish smile again. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It was foolish to go on having that pain in the pit of my stomach when I was so happy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z No, we will not be foolish enough to land at Florida. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z But one glimpse of the generator showed him how foolish he was. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Of course there had been a bigger plan; Harry had simply been too foolish to see it, he realized that now. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The mayor doesn’t strike me as a foolish man, so I can’t imagine he would tolerate the kind of incompetence that would allow the undead on his property. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Viserys had believed that the realm would rise for its rightful king . . . but Viserys had been a fool, and fools believe in foolish things. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z My fear was not such a foolish thing, grandchildren. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Such explanations look foolish after Pascal, but not before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Do you intend to make me cry, or are you just foolish?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Your grandfather has the foolish notion that we should go into trade,” explained Mother. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But of course no one would be that foolish. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been foolish of her to think he could, foolish of her to come at all. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z You foolish boy, God roared, don’t you see you are caught in your own trap! Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mountain and his men had horses, but the captives were all afoot, and those too weak to keep up were killed out of hand, along with anyone foolish enough to flee. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “But he asked me—” “He’s just a foolish child and you know it!” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mother, I know there are no ghosts or fairies. I would be teaching the child foolish lies.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He settled down next to Trina and the little girl, thinking about the past, and drifted off to sleep, only for the darker memories to come and stamp out his foolish hopes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I loved the movie so much that I don’t trust myself to respond without sounding foolish. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z You even are foolish enough to believe that nothing is right but Christianity! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “For precisely the same reasons that they wouldn’t let you promote him. Besides, you’d certainly look foolish trying to bust him down to lieutenant right after you tried to promote him to my rank.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z And the curious ones laughed and said how foolish and credible people were to spread such wild rumors. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z With all of those red lines and squiggles dancing around on my essay, I wasn’t foolish enough to think he meant to tell me anything good. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z "But I was self-pitying and foolish. And there was a woman, a widow, I was attracted to. You understand about that, don't you? Boys your age would understand." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z ‘We are never foolish,” Taryn says, a blatant lie if ever there was one. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And in the next second he felt that it was all foolish, useless, vain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When he failed to respond again, Celaena couldn’t help but feel a bit foolish. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was this combination of daintiness and cultivated speech that misled Macon and invited him to regard her as merely foolish. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z "Put that away! The Lan- nisters are a hundred leagues away. Neva draw your sword unless you mean to use it. How many times must I tell you, foolish boy?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He wondered if the little man were being foolish, or imagining things. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z What use would a trial be with no one to speak in her defence but a foolish girl who was suspected of being a witch herself? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z But maybe they were so greedy that they could be foolish enough to be tricked? Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z “So now you know. And you should also realize why it is foolish to be afraid.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It had been a wild and foolish impulse that had made him try to appear strong and innocent before them. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘You have a stout heart,’ he said; ‘but it was foolish.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Yellow bamboo with a float that dipped every time a foolish fish enquired. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Forrest had some kind of disability in his legs and looked foolish running. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They divided the stuff into eight loads of about 5 6 seventy pounds each, figuring it would be foolish to try to carry more over the rough terrain ahead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He rolled along with every inexplicable order from his superiors, every foolish act of his inferiors, and every abrasive personality that military life could throw at an officer. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z She was being foolish and impulsive, two things Mama always warned against. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “It is a worse foolishness to do something foolish and then to be unable to laugh at it later! A fox, then. It was a fox that kept me from the temple.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I laugh, but I’m suddenly feeling very foolish. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z It’s foolish of me to try to interest her in my work. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z But it was foolish to pretend that she wasn’t in his mind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He sang a foolish sentimental song in a whisper as he washed it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you aim to be a princess. Well, everyone has a foolish dream. Gregory, for instance, dreams of a world where soup is legal. And that rat, Gregory is sure, has some foolish dream, too. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “That would have been a very foolish thing to do,” Henry said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The idea of taking it to get some novels—it’s too foolish to consider. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Feeling more than slightly foolish, he stepped delicately around to the other side of the bonfire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I do not hope that this will be the one, for hoping is a foolish game. But if it burns six more days it will be my best lamp in these ten years.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I am not foolish enough to think we are done with one another. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z America, it appeared, had once been the home of a truly substantial creature–one that would surely disprove Buffon’s foolish Gallic contentions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z First mate angry; said it was folly, and to yield to such foolish ideas would demoralise the men; said he would engage to keep them out of trouble with a handspike. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It’s foolish to slide down my muffs, with all the noise in the room. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Ought he to try to slip out of here and leave this whole foolish thing right now? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I realized how foolish I was being before I reached the pond. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked lovingly at Raji’s strong shoulders and brown skin and his foolish wayward hair, which he had tried to slick down with coconut oil. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “You know that’s a useless, almost a foolish gesture, a complete waste of energy and time?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Each blindfolded child was no more than ten years old, and though they looked rather foolish dressed in the costumes of the gods, there was something charming about it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The cans would not last long between the two of us—in fact, I was loath to share even one with Richard Parker—and it would be foolish to rely on rainwater. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘Sam!’ cried Frodo, feeling that amazement could go no further, and quite unable to decide whether he felt angry, amused, relieved, or merely foolish. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Walter realized that he had been foolish to give everyone the benefit of the doubt. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “It was merely a foolish dare,” I repeated, too ashamed to give voice to the joy and desire. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z We’d be foolish at this point not to put him in office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There is so much to enjoy in the world; how foolish to waste even an hour of it hiding away in avoidance of pain. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “You see, I think, how foolish it was to suppose that this boy could ever have been stronger than me,” said Voldemort. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I felt a foolish grin spread to my face and clapped him on the shoulder as I headed inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If he was thinking about that, and if Edward would not consider it, if Edward was being selfish and foolish, then Edward was wrong. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Finally the members who had been silent in deference to the party rose and demanded of me that the foolish charges against Swann be withdrawn. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked foolish and he started to throw it away, but changed his mind. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, Dedd feels foolish, caught in her frivolity as if she were a kitten knotted in yam. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as I said this, 1 saw how foolish that would be. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they would remember him only by those foolish words after they had killed him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “You deserve to be laughed at for such foolish thoughts! I spoke from my soul; you speak only from selfishness.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "She does, though. The trouble is that sometimes she gets foolish ideas in her head and doesn't know what she's doing." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z To this day the edict remains, but rarely needs to be invoked, because few are foolish enough to impersonate a scythe. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Why do I need to spend time learning foolish tricks?” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “I would tell him that he was being foolish,” she said after a brief pause. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All the techniques of his appeal were familiar to me and I sat there feeling foolish, wanting to leap through the window and go home and forget about it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the foolish dog, it never showed itself in the courtyard when others were there, but would come only to me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “A foolish name. Also, Bod is a pet name. A nickname. I do not approve. I will call you ‘boy.’ The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “How foolish. I thought we were one pew up,” she whispered. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It is better to be seen as cruel than foolish. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But having come this far, he realized it was foolish to turn back now and leave things forever up in the air. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My satisfaction damped itself when it occurred to me how foolish all of this was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I start to think she might make it and show Eric how foolish he was to doubt her. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Maybe a foolish tune, but Johnny warmed to hear it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Even asking it, she knew it was a somewhat foolish question. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Rosy, however, had not come here to throw out foolish words, but quickly wanted to know where things stood. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Anyway, it’s foolish to ask for luxuries in times like these. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then she laughed aloud, because she looked both foolish and awesome. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “She’s just a foolish girl. There’s no need to drag her here and interrogate her.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Even writing out the she saids, the and them, made her wince, and she felt foolish, appearing to know about the emotions of an imaginary being. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t think he’s that foolish to attempt that with all of us here.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “That is a really foolish question,” she said with her voice rising sky high. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She kept her eyes where they were, but her foolish heart still sped up thinking he might choose today to sit next to her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “The old Eskimo customs are not so foolish—they have purpose. I’m as warm as the center of a lemming’s nest.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But she wasn’t nearly angry enough—or foolish enough—to speak the words grow up to Minya. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Everyone will tell you that blue jeans are the most foolish item of clothing you can wear on a hike. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Lady Constance swept into the room as giddy and foolish as ever; to look at her, you would think nothing unpleasant had ever happened in the whole history of England. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z How foolish we’d been, picking him up on this lonely country road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A young man s formation, as bold as it is foolish. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I was puzzled, yet a little amused; was he afraid he’d said too much, afraid of seeming foolish? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She felt almost more foolish than she had ever felt in her life. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Fudge had vanished in a shower of green sparks.Whatever the press and the opposition might say, the Prime Minister was not a foolish man. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I was trying to unsay my foolish remark about lawyers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z With sudden clarity I recalled my daughter’s looks that far-off day when I had gone to Kenny; my son’s words: “Such men have power, especially over women”; remembered my own foolish silences. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a member of the Dregs, an employee of the White Rose, and occasionally a foolish girl, but before anything else she was a Grisha and a soldier. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He might be killed in an accident, or he could die shortly of natural causes, but it would be foolish to count on such an eventuality. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Nature’s booby trap,” Ruza called it, and they left it there, unharmed, to await the next wave of faranji adventurers foolish enough to attempt the crossing. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A part of me wonders if maybe I am foolish for trusting him; I follow Jake anyway. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I suddenly realized that I had done just that, made a foolish mistake. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "He is only a foolish boy, but I have loved him like a brother. It would grieve me to see him die." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “And how many will be foolish enough to stay away?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “No staff to speak of, the larder half-empty, the city getting ready to explode, and she wants this turned out and polished. Of all the foolish—” A loud beating on the front door interrupted her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The Careers regroup on the ground and I can hear them growling conspiratorially among themselves, furious I have made them look foolish. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “You have forgotten where you come from, and now you have become so foolish you think you are a Big Man.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I pictured this bird looking down from the branches to say, "You want me to do what?" before flying off, laughing at the foolish story he now had to tell his friends. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I pulled my head back in, feeling a little foolish. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was lucky that Fiver had not come out with this foolish notion in front of any of the others, especially as there was trouble enough already. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In a way this was Finny’s view, except that naturally he saw it comically, as a huge and intensely practical joke, played by fat and foolish old men bungling away behind the scenes. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt foolish sitting behind the steering wheel like this and letting a white man hold his hand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He turned towards the bank for one last look, treading water, feeling foolish for having been so sure. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could. But I’d rather wait. I still think Mary’s up to some of her foolish pranks. Bigger, you’d better get that trunk.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know,” answered Hazel, trying to look frank and feeling foolish. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, Michael and I became friends, and I came to admire him greatly, in no small measure because he rejected so many of the rather foolish conventions I once embraced. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our ancestors worshiped the Sun,' and they were far from foolish. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn't spent the morning preparing for witnesses as I had intended but had instead been drawn into this foolish mistreatment of McMillian's supporters. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We vuvv have long respected human hope, even when it seems foolish or...” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Which only goes to show how foolish I was. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Obviously not, if his sponsor was nasty and foolish enough to pick him as a Champion. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It would be foolish to tromp much farther through the river’s edge in the dark, with the risk of snakes and crocodiles. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He stared at me, foolish and blank once more. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z No one else was foolish enough to be outside, so I ran straight down the main path without fear of being spotted, the hood of my jacket scrunched tight against the whipping rain. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The voice belonged to a boy, and only one boy would be foolish enough to call her name in the same woods that held a dragon and a murderous Varangian. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z These lies I told them, about where I was and who was sick and which hospital Ollie’s mother was at—they all feel foolish now. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Alys asked, knowing that the question was foolish, for if the answer were to be no, then the girl could not understand in order to give it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For the briefest, most foolish of moments, I thought that perhaps it was I who had been selected, but of course it was Chasca to whom Yawar now turned. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “It’s the most foolish thing I’ve ever seen,” Nehemia said, scanning the ceiling as if she could see through the stone and into the glass sections. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “There’s plenty of sugar in the store. I saw that. And it keeps. But when it’s gone—what then? You see, that’s foolish and shortsighted.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z How foolish I had been to think I was as free as any peasant girl and as worthy as any king’s daughter! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Embarrassed, Stanton went home and wrote an apology to Post, telling her she regretted her “foolish conduct.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z As his father lectured him on his foolish behavior, Fadi tried to put on a sufficiently sorry expression. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Longridge started the car and waved to them out of the window as he drove slowly down the drive, feeling rather foolish as he did so. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She told herself that it was foolish and sinful to look backward when her safety lay before her, like a hiding-place hewn in the side of the mountain. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z What are you doing here, you foolish girl? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I remembered him saying once, “Only a foolish man will wed her who comes easily to his bed.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Not really. Anyone foolish enough to steal a scythe’s ring is quickly removed from the world, so they cease to be a problem.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It would be foolish now to look back upon that in the light of injustice. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The memories of his friend changed in his mind so that he remembered nothing that was wrong or foolish—only the wise and good. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I guess it was foolish to think that my brother would be here for the rest of my life, but I did. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But even if the boy hadn’t had chores to do, it would be foolish to be driven fifteen miles outside Danville on “business” and stay a hot minute. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And now she was talking to him in a way that was not foolish and childlike, designed to entrance, but instead was human and pained and adult. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Was it necessary, was it right, was it not a foolish thing that he should possess a mango tree and a garden? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z It was such a fake gesture to go along with her fake feelings of moral and filial commitment that she knew right away how foolish she seemed. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the loveliest gift. No one can say this one is harmful or foolish.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Some foolish, romantic part of me thought I would know her when I saw her. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Dinosaur teeth—ha! Those foolish mortals don’t even know when they have dragon teeth in their possession. And not just any dragon teeth. These come from the ancient Sybaris herself! They shall do nicely.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z No, I think it would be foolish to attempt to wrest the truth from Professor Slughorn by force, and might do much more harm than good; I do not wish him to leave Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z As soon as I pried out the brick and held the earrings in my hand, I saw what a foolish thing I had done, but it was too late. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “You are a foolish and headstrong girl,” she says, but her voice has lost its edge, and I can tell she’s not as angry as she wants to appear. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Each of us felt the same shame, felt how foolish and weak we were in the face of the domination of the whites. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It does not matter if the destruction springs from a foolish policy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But he did not grieve about it; no, he even felt a great desire to laugh, to laugh at himself, to laugh at this strange foolish world! Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Too foolish, obviously, to appreciate such a marvel. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z We had been lured into great, foolish expectations. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z They knew what sick and foolish soldiers they themselves appeared to be. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Professor McGonagall blew her nose and said thickly, “Stupid boy...foolish boy...he was always hopeless at dueling...should have left it to the Ministry....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Then he wondered why he had asked this, and hoped Elisha would not think him foolish. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Like a foolish child I put my hands behind my back. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A yellow butterfly winged his foolish way before me to the terrace. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I’m the sensible one, yet I was foolish enough to follow him into the city. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It had been foolish even to hope, but desperation will make you believe almost anything. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I have a dozen questions, but I don’t ask, knowing he’ll just think me more foolish. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I wondered whether he thought making a will was foolish at his age—or maybe it was freeing more slaves that he thought was foolish. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He did not like to admit it, but he said, “I take her in my lap and pet her till she calms down, and sometimes I sing her a song. You’re making me feel foolish.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “You must think I’m awfully foolish,” I said, though my throat had a hard time managing both breath and talk. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z It may be foolish, but I feel anything might happen. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m despondent and foolish, I’m sentimental, I know that too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “I agree with Mother that you and I are not suited to each other, because our quick tempers and strong wills would probably make us very miserable, if we were so foolish as to...” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z That my dream of being an artist and traveling the world isn’t foolish. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z You and Shad—both of you need a foolish girl around to jolt the comers of yore mouths into a grin once in a while.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “Young lives forever scarred by a foolish act.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Feeling exceptionally foolish, Harry clambered into the toilet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Luke still felt a little foolish, but he nodded. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “No, never repeat that foolish gossip, and forget it as soon as you can,” said Mrs. March gravely. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z What a fine mess I have made of it with my foolish talk! All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course a struggling animal would attract predators—she had been foolish to put off checking the snares. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Anything I said would sound foolish, a child’s fantasy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Rab, so concerned over a gun as he was, did an uncharacteristic, foolish thing. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The first being this: attacking a member of the Arcanum skilled enough to make a binding of iron is foolish.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Better to try something foolish and hope it worked. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Because when a two-way conversation is one-way, a person will say foolish things just to move air. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well — in that case ...” said Professor McGonagall, staring at the three of them, “Miss Granger, you foolish girl, how could you think of tackling a mountain troll on your own?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Maybe I’d finally know what to do with my foolish heart. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z No one was so foolish as to dispute these claims. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Probably because he felt foolish when I saw him after he fell. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Inside, he felt numbed and foolish, stung by a pang of guilt and shame and regret. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Not all inmates can be helped, but some can, and it’s foolish to let them languish. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ours had been a wayward gypsy music, leading us down all kinds of foolish gypsy ways, unforgiven. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Nhamo knew it was foolish to ignore any source of food, though, so she held her nose and ate. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Would he do something foolish now that he had lost everything? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Again and again he shook his head at his foolish child. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She knew that she could easily escape, and that it would be foolish to do so. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “Class, do you see this foolish little Indian boy?” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Liza’s voice, close to his ear, said, “Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I. Say you will miss me.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Then he realized how foolish he had been to think that secretive Klansmen would ride around Durham dressed in their robes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet the genteel detachment of Pasteur and his contemporaries seemed quaint, even foolish, given the profits to be made in the industrial world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “It was foolish to spar with you just now. I’ll admit that I hadn’t realized you’d be that good. Thankfully, no one noticed. And do you want to know why, Lillian?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “We were foolish enough to reach manhood just when the long fizzling turned into an explosion.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few minutes, I began to feel foolish. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z For a while, when I was young and foolish, I thought I was the last gorilla on earth. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The midwife looked as though she hadn’t given a thought to her appearance in a decade, and the way she carried herself made you feel foolish for having noticed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You are a foolish child,” Tatterfell says, scraping my hair into tight warrior braids. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “You know, I thought it was foolish, that he was hiding from his nightmares. But he was right.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Don’t be foolish,” she whispered back, but craned her neck over the crowd. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z "A clever fool and a foolish wise man." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Which person,” she said, her voice shaking, “which abysmally foolish person wrote down this week’s passwords and left them lying around?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I felt foolish, but I pulled off a loose button and gave it to him. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “As if I would do such a foolish thing,” Grandmother said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “You were supposed to be in your room. It’s after curfew. What were you thinking? I can’t believe you would do something this foolish. Do you know what could’ve happened?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I knew I was being foolish; but I couldn’t help myself, and after a bit I said, “Mother, I’d better go out and see to the livestock.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I hadn’t been so foolish, after all. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Elle looked down at me like a celestial being taking in the mortals and their foolish antics down below. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z I wish for it harder than I’ve ever wished for anything, knowing all the while how foolish it is. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He drove fast and talked the whole way, spinning out all manner of foolish ideas. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She had been such a child then—such a foolish, unknowing child. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve sailed these waters for centuries, waylaying any demigods foolish enough to explore the Mare Nostrum. This is 'my territory now. And all you have is mine.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He had been just as vigorous last weekend when he agreed with Harrison that Jomo was foolish. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I breathed a sigh of relief— yesterday’s fears seemed very foolish with him here. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z My feet made a stupid pitter-patter as I walked, and I thought that Frith, with his felt soles, must have thought me foolish. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He would be more than equal to these people in the foolish, great, wasteful house. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z “I’m glad of it, that’s one of your foolish extravagances, sending flowers and things to girls for whom you don’t care two pins,” continued Jo reprovingly. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z No one was foolish enough to try to pull off the ugly halter and nose chain to perfect the shot. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z No change in the expression of the eyes, but a hard wetness that veiled them as they looked at the stretch of her mother’s foolish smile. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I open my mouth and then bite the side of my cheek to stop myself from saying something foolish. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I suppose,” I echoed, then felt foolish for simply repeating her words. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Afterward there was a period when he felt sleepy and a little foolish. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He wondered if he looked very foolish now, with his body and arms so fat and his legs so thin. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” cried Elizabeth, “have it as you choose. He shall be mercenary, and she shall be foolish.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Her aunt had always prophesied that Elizabeth would come to no good end, proud, and vain, and foolish as she was, and having been allowed to run wild all her childhood days. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z You see, the foolish old man was actually beginning to imagine the Witch would fall in love with him. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z He’d put the whole thing down to my being young and foolish and talking big. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It’s foolish and sentimental, but late last night I buried him in the back yard. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She had heard many tales about men and women who had been foolish enough to make wishes in the presence of fairies, and for a moment she wondered what she was getting herself into. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was a mess, as usual, but it was orderly in its foolish way. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He laughed and said it would have been as foolish as attempting to fight a pride of angry lions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a foolish hope,” he said quietly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think so. If he is truly invulnerable in Alaska, he’d be foolish to come here himself. It must be one of his brothers.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And of course, her visits always reminded Wu Tsing of Fifth Wife’s low-class background and how foolish he had been to be lured by her earthy flesh. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew it was foolish to believe that Sam might be with General Arnold’s troops, but when you want something bad enough you can’t stop yourself from, hoping. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had not been so foolish as to fight the slavers, as Jorah Mormont had, but that did not mean he had escaped punishment. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Stories are not foolish,” Ba said again, in his quiet way. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I thought that sounded foolish, till I saw she was just teasing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Then you are even more foolish than I perceived you to be,” said Mr. Curtain, and spreading his arms and legs with one powerful thrust, he ripped the sashes in two. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z “Of course that foolish boy let the goats out!” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Matthias stood there feeling foolish and hating her for making him feel that way. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There is an innocence in him that I have found merely foreign and foolish; yet in another moment that seeming innocence reveals a discipline of knowledge and a largeness of purpose that awes me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But I see I am becoming preoccupied with these memories and this is perhaps a little foolish. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The amused tone in Madu’s voice made him feel instantly foolish. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “See, he had a bad habit of doing the very first thing that popped into his mind, no matter how foolish,” my grandfather said. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z There are always untenable events, freak happenings like someone recognizing you, or at worst, the trouble results from a foolish and negligent spy, like my time with Luzan. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I hugged them and we laughed at my foolish worry. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “It was foolish to come here today. I should have known better.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She always felt a little foolish when she was with Daario. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In his own angel shape, shimmering like a heat haze in the sunlight, he said, “You were foolish to go to her. All you want to do now is see the woman again.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He didn't like it when she said foolish words lined up, like mousetrap taffy-puller. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Trepid felt foolish, and hurriedly left the department. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z “I do not need those foolish undead! The General thinks I am worthless? He will change his mind when I defeat you myself!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I suppose I’d had some sort of foolish notion that Bigwig would be waiting to meet us. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I should say, incidentally, that I am not so foolish as to be unprepared for disappointment. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I made a foolish pretence of not at first recognising it, and then told her. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “I was old in Kalighat before you were dreamed of, you foolish man. I am a child? Then I am a child, for there is nothing in your foolish talk to see.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She simplifies the situation to the point that whoever’s sitting across from her is left feeling foolish. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Huh. No more foolish than you were when you were saying the same thing to me not so long ago,” Matthias retorted. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z She had taken a piece of blue ribbon from Mrs. Jones’s dressing-table, and was holding it against her shoulder and admiring herself in the glass in a very foolish manner. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He knew that he would not wake up some time later, after death, and sigh at how simple and foolish his dream had been. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z If the Army Corps of Engineers had had its foolish way, I’d have been swimming back to my car now, and I was grateful at least to be spared that. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Denna had shared a wagon with Josn the whole of the day, and I, being foolish and proud, had kept my distance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Don’t be foolish, Gaea said, but Hazel detected concern in her tone, maybe even fear. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z If he hears a single boy in this class asking foolish questions or talking about The Collection again he’ll flog that boy till the blood spurts. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I will not. I am not foolish, whatever others may be,” she said. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z So the foolish little brat waited until your dormitory was deserted and stole it back. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z "What," he asked, in what he was certain were lofty and scornful tones, "would possibly make you imagine that my lady-love would have sent me on some foolish errand?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z "I just think, why risk it? It's foolish." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I remember standing on the terrace and staring up at the sky as the foolish rockets burst and fell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In hindsight, it was as foolish as taunting an angry bull. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I guarantee she’ll be able to fulfill her duties; we truly don’t need to train her. I’ve told you already: it’s foolish to have this competition at all.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z To deny the mighty Paqo’s wishes would be a foolish choice, but I was not pleased. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He had often told folktales—of foolish donkeys or brave tigers—when Tree-ear was a youngster. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I wasn’t foolish enough to set out for Hollywood, Disneyland, or the beach where they filmed Happening ’68 with rock and rollers like Paul Revere and the Raiders. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It gave her the courage to say, “I have another wish,” though she knew that if one wish were foolish, a second was far more dangerous. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Such foolish hope, to have thought that despite being raised to violence I might one day be free of it. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was all I had left of him But that was weak and foolish. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Was it because Dumbledore did not want Harry to do anything foolish, to take matters into his own hands, that he had pretended there was nothing in Harry’s suspicions? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z While she might be used to darkness, she wasn’t foolish enough to trust it. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z No one was foolish enough to pay a stud fee to breed a mare to him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Er, er, it was sort of north-west,” Sela gulped, realizing how foolish she sounded. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Some said that picketing had become “little less than criminal” and called it the most outrageous of the “foolish, childish methods you have used trying to harass our overburdened president.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z You really mustn't let any more foolish ideas come between yourself and the happiness you deserve.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Bad things happen to slaves foolish enough to do so. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Having started this little game, Hemme was unable to stop it without looking foolish. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Hey,” he said to it, “you know something that I don’t?” and immediately felt foolish. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Hitherto the animals on the farm had had a rather foolish custom of addressing one another as “Comrade.” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z There in the calm light of my father, all those things that Phoebe had said about Mrs. Cadaver seemed foolish. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Then he blushed, embarrassed that he had even thought such a foolish thing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Imagine a Canadian farmer foolish enough to plant a race of corn adapted to growing farther south, in Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You’re young. Too young and too foolish to understand what’s happening here. We have no rights and no power, and no one in this family is going to take any risks. Do you understand me?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The world had caught him; pleasure, covetousness, idleness, and finally also that vice that he had always despised and scorned as the most foolish—acquisitiveness. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “My most precious gift. I was foolish to think I needed anything else.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She wrote, “It is perhaps foolish of me to say this much but my own dear Charley we now do belong to each other & I cannot help being open with you.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood alone in that room and decided then and there that I was just as foolish as Mrs. Diamant had said. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “It counts with a foolish old woman whom you have captivated,” replied Mademoiselle, with her wriggling laugh. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z It made him feel cumbered and foolish, and he wondered once more why he was here. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He searched in Master’s bedroom and felt foolish because he knew there was no way the Concise Couples Handbook would be there. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z How reckless and foolish Hamlet was to make this threat, if he knew that Claudius listened! Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “But the Bureau made me feel like a fool for fighting for any of it, and for what the Allegiant stood for. And I don’t like to feel foolish.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Who would be this foolish, this arrogant, this devious, this...mad? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Was he not foolish in even listening when Max talked of saving his life? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z By this he meant, I supposed, that he wouldn’t fling anything foolish away. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He was never happier than when he had outwitted some foolish custom, and he was never more melancholy than when brooding over the impossibility of his ever being free. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She felt foolish and ashamed of her panic, of wanting to tear them away from him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “The older brother ran ahead. He came upon a dead eland and immediately cut it up into steaks. ‘How could you be so foolish?’ cried Biri when she saw what he had done. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “When your foolish act of compassion forced the Kuhani to expel you from candidacy, I thought our hopes might be dashed.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was well built, well dressed, and well mannered, with nothing foolish or humble about him, despite the fact that he had just fallen into a ditch and been relieved of his weapon. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Whenever he saw something bad or wrong, he’d do just about anything to make it right, no matter how reckless or foolish. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I’m sorry if I sound foolish, I wrote. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The leader of the birds fluffed up his feathers and began to sing a special bird song which was all about how birds enjoyed eating the food of foolish people. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Nothing silly like a Gaming Machine, nothing frivolous like the soft upholstered furniture decorated with fringe that a foolish young couple down the road had traded for. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z And Cor, who had very much wanted the story to be known, though he felt he couldn't tell it himself, didn't enjoy it so much as he had expected, and indeed felt rather foolish. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Feeling foolish, I placed the potato between my lips and put my face close to its beak. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He felt foolish—I could understand that—so I went and stood outside the door. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “That seems foolish,” I say, to avoid refusing the invitation outright. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He even waved his tunic over his head, feeling a little foolish as he did so. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z How foolish to believe we are more powerful than the sea or the sky. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z What foolish thing was he doing, walking like this under an open sky, with a beautiful man child for any evil spirit passing by chance through the air to see! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z So in this clumsy way, my mother found out that Wu Tsing had taken his fourth concubine, who was actually just an afterthought, a foolish bit of decoration for his new motorcar. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ob drew up his nose and got this foolish look on him, like he was about to sneeze. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z Then he stopped, feeling childish and foolish, and glad that the girl had not seen. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It seemed most unlikely that Umbridge would keep her jewelry in her office, but on the other hand it seemed foolish not to search it to make sure. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “She thinks I’m only a foolish old woman. But I know. ’ Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be foolish to assume that any single agent is responsible for damaging the chromosomes or causing their erratic behavior during cell division. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z We had been foolish virgins in the war, right at the end of childhood. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigger saw Mr. Dalton look briefly at Jan. “Bigger, you’re a foolish boy if you don’t tell who was in this thing with you,” Mr. Dalton said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “If Ortega sends his boy here, Ortega is back, foolish one.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I looked up to catch him grinning at me and felt foolish that I hadn’t realized he was teasing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘It’s tomorrow,’ said Gollum, ‘or this was tomorrow when hobbits went to sleep. Very foolish, very dangerous — if poor Sméagol wasn’t sneaking about to watch.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She forgot every word of it, hung her head, and answered, “I don’t know,” so softly that John had to stoop down to catch the foolish little reply. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s my fault they were unsupervised. It was foolish of me.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Hush, you foolish creature, or I’ll make a pillow out of you.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Back then, a fielder had to judge it right or you would look mighty foolish. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he wanted to get in there, examine the bodies and try to figure out what was going on, but knew how foolish it would be. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z As I stood there, it occurred to me how foolish the hope was. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I sometimes wonder how much irrationality in the world has been excused by the nonsensical saying “Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” a corruption of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s remark about “a foolish consistency.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He felt stupid for having been lured inside, foolish for not trusting his first impulses, to get as far away from the sour-faced man as possible. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Not that I think anybody would be foolish enough to try anything with you, but I promised Nicole and her mother I wouldn’t leave you alone.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z |
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