On the other hand, he could dismiss my belief in Simon as romantic folly.

If this is not a feint, a romantic folly, then some substantial building stood here.

I say it is romantic folly.

He would be a good husband to her; they would have children, and when he was a father he would cease to be bothered by romantic follies.

And how do you measure the sheer romantic folly of his ambition.

I cannot bear this stupid romantic folly.

He required someone exactly like Rosalind: older, of good family, and safely past the age of romantic folly.

Their stories, dating back 150 years, hint of romantic folly or grand adventure.

But although she wondered, she could not help loving him the better for his odd combination of Spartan self-control and what appeared to her romantic and childish folly.

What but youth can echo back the soul of youth - all the music of its wild vanities and romantic follies?