1 After leaving the house he discovered his loss and hurried back, but found the police already in possession, owing to his own folly in leaving the candle burning.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR 2 It was not only a crime, it had been a tragic folly.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE 3 I pray thee, uncle," answered the Jester, "let my folly, for once, protect my roguery.
4 Friend Wamba," said he, "of all those who are fools enough to serve Cedric, thou alone hast dexterity enough to make thy folly acceptable to him.
5 Marriage were an enduring crime on the part of a Templar; but what lesser folly I may practise, I shall speedily be absolved from at the next Preceptory of our Order.
6 Thou hast spoken well, Brother Albert," said Beaumanoir; "thy motives were good, since thou didst judge it right to arrest thine erring brother in his career of precipitate folly.
7 And tonight's business seems quite gratuitous folly.
8 As for the scent-bottle, that was her own folly.
9 They had need be all in love, to find any amusement in such folly; and so they are, I fancy.
10 But if I can be the means of restraining the publicity of the business, of limiting the exhibition, of concentrating our folly, I shall be well repaid.
11 Fanny could not look at him, but there was no consciousness of past folly in his voice.
12 My dear Fanny," replied Edmund, scarcely hearing her to the end, "let us not, any of us, be judged by what we appeared at that period of general folly.
13 I am sure it will be all hushed up, and nothing proved but Rushworth's folly.
14 Their substance was great anger at the folly of each.
15 She saw it only as folly, and that folly stamped only by exposure.