例文・使い方で印象づける「whims」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...Henceforth he was going to be an underling at the beck and call of these men who would dispose of him as their whims directed... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
... “Capitally reasoned, Porthos—only a man must have a fortune like yours to gratify such whims...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...But I wanted to see what was beyond the wall—one of those whims thatbeset the soberest men...
John Buchan 「Mr. Standfast」
...I was subject to the whims and caprice of those whom I solicited on these occasions[A]; to these I was obliged to accommodate myself...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
... As a slave, subjected to the whims and passions of his master, Henry made up his mind that he could not stand it longer...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
... Elsewhere Say says, and repeats, that value being based on utility, and utility depending entirely on our needs, whims, customs, &c...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...The instinct of property is to make the industry of Daedalus, as well as the talent of Phidias, subservient to its own fantastic whims and disgraceful pleasures...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...There were one or two little whims and peculiarities of hers which he mustexplain...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...Fifty times the Master opened and closed doors to suit her changing whims,until poor Tara felt quite ashamed of herself, though still quite unable tosettle down...
A. J. Dawson 「Finn The Wolfhound」
...But plants are subject to other whims not less pronounced thanthese which have to do with the choice of a dwelling-place...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...The larva munches a given spot, which it leaves to munch a second, passing to a third and a fourth, at the bidding of its changing whims...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...No community interestsoverride or check individual whims or peculiarities...
John Burroughs 「Ways of Nature」
...Surenuff—our wants and whims rule the magazine; so it's surely"ours...
Various 「Astounding Stories, March, 1931」
...What more natural than that themultitude of little whims and fads Richard had indulged shouldculminate in a big whim of this kind? But the acknowledgment caused herfresh anxiety...
Henry Handel Richardson 「Australia Felix」
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