All these years I have implored you to stop this foolish custom and husband your means, but all in vain.
But Rose was wide-awake, and escaped all his snares, professing great contempt for such foolish customs.
I think it is a very foolish custom; but it is an old one, and we have to abide by it.
He was tired, he told them, of being laughed at by greater men than they, and the foolish custom of the Hunt would end with him.
After that the foolish custom of washing passed out of their lives.
Or better yet, the foolish custom can be abolished, and let the Munchkinlanders govern themselves to death.
Honakura remembered now that the swordsmen had a limit of three to a sutra session, another foolish custom.
I thought you said marriage was a--" "Was foolish ancient custom your people, yes.
"I gave up almost everything to live here, but I will not let them mutilate me in the name of some foolish custom."
Perhaps it is a foolish custom, but it is ours.