The denizens of Sprite Street suddenly found themselves standing foolishly about the road in the middle of the night.

We will emerge in the spring an unstoppable force, rolling across the northland and laying waste to all who foolishly stand before us!

Janet Flanner, the great New Yorker foreign correspondent, wrote at the time that Hitler's "unpredictable mental processes and moves, being unlike anything that the chancelleries have for centuries considered part of the game, have left diplomats foolishly standing ready with bats and no ball."

Wes Farrell greeted Barney Carroll jovially, while Walt Franks stood foolishly and gaped at Christine Baler.

Now he stood foolishly with the pieces in his hands.

So in the midst of the attempt to order the steamboats into a convoy for the passage upstream, two big rowboats swung out into the river, with six men pulling at the oars of each and another dozen or so under arms, many of them foolishly standing up and huzzahing their own bravado.

Stunned, he blundered off away again and stood foolishly.

He would have fled had it been possible; but as he had no means of leaving the residence into which he had so unfortunately penetrated, he could do no more than stand foolishly where he was.

She sewed up the rip in my trousers while I stood foolishly in my shorts with the children making comments; she brushed me off and she even let me use her husband's razor.

And Bob stood foolishly, without an idea of what to do.