...Of the whimsical quality of his mind and his rare gift of graceful expression, his writings—unfortunately but too scanty—and particularly his Confessions, afford us very ample evidence...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
... “Oh! that would be acting like a weak and whimsical husband...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...“Yes,” said he, taking up again the thread of his thoughts, which had been broken by the whimsical conversation in which we have just permitted our readers to participate...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Louise de la Valliere」
...Arcoll's whimsical, humorous face had hardened into grimness, and inhis eyes there was the light of a fierce purpose...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
... Rischenheim let that curious speculation alone, although he remembered the whimsical air with which Rupert delivered it...
Anthony Hope 「Rupert of Hentzau」
...The price of a black fox is one of the wonders of a recklesslyextravagant and whimsical age...
William T. Hornaday 「Our Vanishing Wild Life」
...The whimsical fate thatseems to play with the destinies of the wild kindreds had chosen tolet him save one flock from the slaughterer, and expiate his blamelesstreason...
Charles G. D. Roberts 「The Watchers of the Trails」
...It is the substitution of a human and tolerably humane powerfor an incalculable whimsical and often cruel force...
Jane Ellen Harrison 「Ancient Art and Ritual」
...Some ofhis historic pictures of Adam, and of Noah, in which he indulged in hisfavourite taste for the novel and whimsical, remain in the cloisters ofS...
Luigi Antonio Lanzi Thomas Roscoe 「The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (of 6)」
...It is thus that the most virtuous man, by a whimsical combination of unlooked-for circumstances, may become in an instant the most criminal of his species...
Paul Henri Thiery (Baron D'Holbach) 「The System of Nature, Volume 1」
...The scene was altogether whimsical and curious; the valley where they equipped themselves was very romantic, and the occasion extraordinary and perfectly novel...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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