folly

• From the valley, the folly was all but invisible, but from the single room high in the canopies, the views were extensive, an arcadian panorama of quiet valley and distantly burbling stream, of woods and orchards and green pastures The folly belonged to the manor; it was on manor lands, but no one from there or anywhere else visited any longer. —  Stephanie Laurens - A Fine Passion
• If one wanted to keep an unobtrusive watch on all arrivals and departures, the folly was the place from which to do it. —  This is a work of fiction
• Diverting any of our community's scarce resources into this folly is a mistake American Jewry can ill afford.
• The most detestable form of this folly is the buying of incunabula_, first editions or uncut copies, and keeping them from publication or reading, and, in short, of worshipping anything, be it a book or a coin, merely because it is rare_. —  Memoirs
• `Rather than spoil my uniform, I would have knocked him on the head with a pole,' said a third; and it was a long time before what they termed my folly was forgotten or forgiven. —  Black Ivory

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