例文・使い方で印象づける「capricious」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...To the enormous lava rocks succeeded soon those capricious sand dunes,among which the engineer had been so singularly recovered, and whichsea-birds frequented in thousands... 
Jules Verne William Henry Giles Kingston 「Abandoned」
...These supports on which your capricious mind instinctively relied I have caused to disappear...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
... “You see,” said the king, “that I am right in accusing you; you must admit you are changeable, capricious, a coquette, perhaps...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...He, of course, ran a great risk of losing his own; but the novelty of the event seemed to tickle the capricious chief, and he at once ordered the woman to be released...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
...The climate is capricious, as everywhere about the equator, and the nearer the river the heavier are the showers...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
... I had excellent opportunities of witnessing the restless discontent and the capricious irritation of the Lloyds...
Frederick Douglass 「My Bondage and My Freedom」
...Their origin I taketo be, of course, in heated regions south or southwest of us;but their peculiar occurrence, so capricious and often so brief,I can not explain to myself satisfactorily...
W. E. Webb 「Buffalo Land」
...In the caressing sunlight of ten o'clock in the morning the mother runsup and down the chosen pod, first on one side, then on the other, with ajerky, capricious, unmethodical gait...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...They are certainly capricious, and sometimeswithout any apparent cause burst into fits of ill temper, therefore areby no means to be trusted, even in the midst of love and docility...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...The plants attacked by the ants were found to be very numerous, and the ants seemed to be very capricious in this respect, one day stripping a plant and the next day leaving it untouched...
Frédéric Houssay 「The Industries of Animals」
...But in this changed behaviour of the peoplethere is nothing capricious or inconsistent...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
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