"Fooling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Devil! Speak before you drive me to madness! What passion moves you thus—what mystic fooling? Into what place have I been decoyed at your bidding? Why am I brought hither? Speak, speak!—or I shall ...
— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli
... have got a footing on the sea, and we are going to keep it. While Charles of Sweden is fooling away his time in Poland, in order to gratify his spite against Augustus, we are strengthening ourselves here, and never again will Sweden wrest Ingria from ...
— A Jacobite Exile - Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden • G. A. Henty
... Jerry!" repeated Barrett, more sharply. "Jerry! rouse up, will you? We don't want any fooling; understand that, Jerry!" He dropped his hand on the man's shoulder and shook him slightly. The Teller ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington
... [standing up, disguising her impatience.] — Let you come here to me, Timmy, and not be minding him at all. [Timmy stops, and she gropes up to him and takes him by the coat).] You're not huffy with myself, and let you tell me the whole story and don't be fooling me more.... Is it yourself has brought ...
— The Well of the Saints • J. M. Synge
... as so frequently said by superficial historians: it was that they waked up at last to the idea that the aristocracy and the priesthood had not only been fleecing them financially and keeping them down socially, but had been fooling them religiously, until at last they broke away, having no confidence left in God or priest or educated people or nobility or anything. No wonder they made havoc. If you want to make a river dangerous, dam it up, keep the waters back, until by and by the pressure ...
— Our Unitarian Gospel • Minot Savage
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