The Villa Straylight," said a jeweled thing on the pedestal, in a voice like music, "is a body grown in upon itself, a Gothic folly.

Bureaucratically correct, the Abingdon town council has placed a sign beside a Gothic folly: "These are not real ruins."

On the roof, the water tank enclosure, often a throwaway item, was handled like a Gothic folly, its octagonal form held up by buttresses.

Close to the church, at the end of a paved walk is a small Gothic folly designed by Richard Bentley.

In a Victorian Gothic folly?

It is surrounded by parkland, with two lakes and a Gothic folly (Sham Castle).

No, in a Gothic folly - a porchway somewhere.

To the north, at the ridge of a faraway hill, is a Gothic folly known as an eye-catcher, which was built to look like a castle in ruins.

By 1798 Brenna raised a Gothic folly, Bip fortress, which fascinated Paul so much that he listed it on the Army register of real fortresses.

There was furniture in the room--difficult to notice in the first shock of seeing the central Gothic folly of Shadow's Gate.