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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 Hume, David

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 Mackay, Charles

He is too good a sort to go to seed with his confounded whimseys; so I determined to take a different tone with him.

From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer

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 Moore, T. Sturge

Desnoyers was accustomed to humor Robert's tirades against his fellow citizens because the man had always humored his whimseys about the incessant rearrangement of his furniture.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster