Vagary

Usage examples of whim.

I was going to Naples only to gratify an amorous fancy, entreated me to spend a month with him and to sacrifice my whim.

She had come to Spain on a whim not knowing really where Spain was, with a bloke of course Aquarians had a great need to give and receive love, repeated studies had proved it.

Bem managed to whim per Suddenly Kirk found that his own anger at ho Bem had become a source of embarrassment.

Fire Lotusor poor Bulbul or my Lord Zeid, whose mad whims need more gold than he earns from the Space Giver lamps?

I do not know what happened to me at that moment, but a strange whim came into my head--I would be a monk, too.

As I looked at her a whim came into my head, and, as the reader is aware, I have never resisted any of my whims.

He had bought the valley, and the caravanserai that came with it, more or less on a whim.

Ensign Corbeau might yet end up back here, if his desire to do so is true will and not temporary whim.

That, along with so many other ephemeral images in the course of so many years, would suddenly appear to Florentino Ariza at the whim of fate, and disappear again in the same way, leaving behind a throb of longing in his heart.

Office of Finance, and numerous other dictates over the years, had ultimately left the legislature prisoner to the whims of Premier Sandra Nagy and her Expansionist cronies.

In Dresden I had frequent opportunities of seeing the king, who was very fond of the Count de Bruhl, his minister, because that favourite possessed the double secret of shewing himself more extravagant even than his master, and of indulging all his whims.

I might have informed her that the calculation which enabled me to decipher the manuscript furnished me also with the key, but the whim took me to tell her that a spirit had revealed it to me.

She had gone up to the University that night to look at the Hartgen art exhibition outside Hauck, heard the music coming from the lounge, and went in on what was little more than a whim.

But my parents called me Johannes, Johann, Hengin, Henchen, Henne, Hans and Hen, according to their whim or my behaviour.

If the conclave took the eccentric whim of making him pope, Christ would never have an uglier vicar.