whimsey
noun
whimseys
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pluralof whimsey.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"You speak without hesitation, and it is through your ability to settle such whimseys out of hand that you will yet win, it may be, to success."
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
But, caprices and whimseys being ascribed to a goddess, it will be natural to expect them in her worshipper; and Mr. Whistler revealed the limitations of his genius by whimseys and caprice.
From Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
Though transported himself with the most frantic whimseys, Cromwell had adopted a scheme for regulating this principle in others, which was sagacious and political.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell by David Hume
In the multitudinous whimseys of a disabled mind and body, the thick-coming fancies often come to me that the events which affect my life and adventures are specially shaped to disappoint my purposes.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle
These are the whimseys of the mass - the harmless follies by which they unconsciously endeavour to lighten the load of care which presses upon their existence.
From Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 by Charles Mackay
