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You want genius, my boy, to make a tomfool of yourself like this,' and he looked himself proudly up and down.
THE HISTORY OF DAVID GRIEVEMRS. HUMPHRY WARD
Go and fetch the money and the tomfool paint-box thing that you say he had it in.
"CARROTS:"MRS. MOLESWORTH
I don't like to apply such a tomfool word to anything, but observe how all this has come about.
MASTER OF HIS FATEJ. MCLAREN COBBAN
Dorcas objected to this name, but Tabitha remarked sagely that at any rate it was better than "Tomfool."
SMITH AND THE PHARAOHS, AND OTHER TALESHENRY RIDER HAGGARD
This ought to be read before all the tomfool peace societies and anti-imperialist societies of the present-day.
LETTERS TO HIS CHILDRENTHEODORE ROOSEVELT
Then the father swore “he was not going to have his son make a tomfool of hisself to please that there parson.”
THE CARBONELSCHARLOTTE M. YONGE
"I'll stop all night in your tomfool wood and up your tomfool trees," he said.
THE TREES OF PRIDEG.K. CHESTERTON
And think of that tomfool of a Tommy-Bill-beg sending the man to me.
SHE'S ALL THE WORLD TO MEHALL CAINE
“If she wa'n't dead and gone, I wouldn't believe one word of such a tomfool story,” said she, with vicious energy.
THE SHOULDERS OF ATLASMARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN
That tomfool letter we sent ruined whatever chance I had left.
CABBAGES AND KINGSO. HENRY

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