Certain inrushers

Usage examples of fools.

I amused myself briefly by considering how Nighteyes would have bunched up and moved these woolly fools, but my even thinking of a wolf caused a few of them to halt in their tracks suddenly and glance about wildly.

Yet there be fools and fools, ye must allow, Gay fools as I and surly fools--as thou.

Since of my folly, full and free, I wisely thus admonish ye, Be wise--or eke fools learn to be In verity-- Like me!

The very fool of fools am I-- A Fool that fain would pluck the sun from heaven.

My folly mayhap shall delight thee, A song of fools I will recite thee, Lady fair--O list!

For fools that fond and foolish sigh, That wert thou foul as hog in sty Fair women must unto thee fly.

Fool, I, Rob, do rob and have robbed greater robbers that I might by robbery live to rob like robbers again, as thou, by thy foolish folly, fooleries make, befooling fools lesser than thou, that thou, Fool, by such fool-like fooleries may live to fool like fools again!

Sir Fool, have I seen a-many, both in the motley and out, but thou art rare among all fools, I do think.

Mopsa, my fostermother, that, being a wise-woman, fools decry as witch, and my ten grave and learned guardians have banished therefor?

But I, though two-legged, am but very fool of fools and nothing perilous in blazing day or blackest night.

The act of the three Fools was peculiarly compelling, faintly disturbing, wistful and wild in turns, austere and scatological, the exhortations of gentle fanatics, anarchists with a sense of humour, three raucous saints who were immensely professional in their direct simplicity.

The young man had a history of violence and severe mental disturbance, and the Fools were not to blame for providing him with an outlet, but they were all comprehensively tarred with the same brush of dangerous madness, and within a few months they had dispersed.

Fools went back to the everyday life they had so often mocked: Fools bought clothes, bore children, voted in school board elections.

Even the less flamboyant Fools courted danger: The half-and-half extremists seemed almost to glory in it.

I know of twenty-two cases of violence against Fools, all but one of them a direct result of some inflammatory word or action on the part of the Fool.