whimsey
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whimseys
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Also, if you haven’t yet seen the 2016 film “Alice: Through the Looking Glass,” you can cap off the summer with a bit of Wonderland whimsey.
From Fox News ● Jul. 30, 2020
As long as The Wizard of Oz sticks to whimsey and magic, it floats in the same rare atmosphere of enchantment that distinguished Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
From Time ● Sep. 17, 2013
Without batting an eye, poker-faced Koussevitzky led his men through Haydn's rococo whimsey, bowed gravely, pinched out his candle and left the stage.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has been the "Beachcomber" 20 years, but his success in whimsey is not unique.
From Time Magazine Archive
The whimsey caused another smile to ripple across her lips.
From The Ragged Edge by Harold MacGrath
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
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 Frederic Mayer Bird
"Of body, I grant you; and when his mind becomes clearer, these whimseys will vanish like ghosts at cock-crow."
From My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France by Herbert Hayens
He is not only the first citizen of the town, he is its soul, its genius, he has all its finest whimseys.
From Tartarin On The Alps by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
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