Lexicographical Neighbors of Foolings
Literary usage of Foolings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1890)
"That inference is that foolings, not causing nerve-actions, cannot even cause
each other. To ordinary common sense, felt pain is, as such, ..."
2. The Century (1902)
"... drawings purposely crude, and a hundred other delightful foolings, all
characteristically indicative of the man's skill, wit, and humor. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1863)
"... be he priest or layman, to be brought into contact with opponents whose nature
and foolings, and the manner in which they express those feelings, ..."
4. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"Fitz is good Suffolk soil, the most pleasing of foolings. His literary taste in
the Classics is quite sound, and infantile out of them. ..."
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