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Example sentences for "whims"

Lexicographically close words:
whim; whimper; whimpered; whimpering; whimpers; whimsey; whimsical; whimsicalities; whimsicality; whimsically
  1. And I may add the Systeme de la Nature of Diderot, who corrected the crude whims of Robinet by the more refined mechanism of Hartley.

  2. I saw it much disturbed by the mystical whims of J.

  3. They found both of them in the ripest state for Illumination, having shaken off all the cabalistical, chemical, and mystical whims that had formerly disturbed them, and would now take up too much of their time.

  4. It was because she had judged her mother, as well as her father and brothers, her mother who had accepted the life that she had kicked against and had bent a meek head to the whims of her master.

  5. She was nothing but a slave to his whims and prejudices, and so were all the women of the family, slaves to wait upon and defer humbly and obediently to their mankind.

  6. A general desire to please suggests similar measures; people would be disgusted with a woman's whims if they were not skilfully managed, and when they are artistically distributed her servants are more than ever enslaved.

  7. We do what he wants or we make him do what we want, we submit to his whims or subject him to our own.

  8. One had to be on the spot, to interview the editors, to study their whims and keep one's self in their minds; otherwise some one else got the work.

  9. Mr. Solley was a very bold man, not easily influenced or troubled, who laughed at my little faults and whims more than I thought he should.

  10. It seemed to many that the second Solley had refounded it for one of those whims that are ornamental in the rich.

  11. Week by week these meritus Gaudissarts are brought in contact with whims past counting; they know every vibration of the cashmere chord in the heart of woman.

  12. It would not be nice to say that bulls are like some humans, but it is a fact that they are extremely illogical animals, full of impulses and whims that have absolutely no relation to cause or effect.

  13. To cater to the whims of one master lowers both parties concerned.

  14. What is done there is done under no broad light of public improvement, but is merely catering to the personal tastes and habits, whims and fancies of one family.

  15. These polar boats had been driven from Danish into English waters by the whims of the sea.

  16. He is one of those rare personalities whom the whims of time and events have so obscured that they are to be seen but dimly through the mists.

  17. He might have passed her words off as the whims of childishness, but she was not alone in her condemnations.

  18. Courage to hope that he might be able to govern them, but uneasiness about their sudden whims and turns.

  19. The young man who had just before borne so patiently Wanda's whims and caprices, would not have allowed a slight matter to move him so deeply.

  20. I have passed through life neglected and solitary from my childhood; I have pursued my studies only through the greatest self-denial, and they have yielded me nothing but dependence upon the whims and generosity of strangers.

  21. I should feel that I knew how to direct my servants, and what it was reasonable and proper to expect of them; and then, as you say, I shouldn't be dependent on all their whims and caprices of temper.

  22. That I won't see a pore girl drove to ruin not for all the cantankerous whims of all the cantankerous wives in all----.

  23. All in a moment the whims and capers of infancy possessed her again, and she succumbed to an ecstasy of wriggles.

  24. But one is so accustomed to that among literary men, one never expects them to be like anybody else, and so takes their whims and oddities for granted.

  25. That there are more whims in the world than yours, dear Queen Whims; and I fear darker ones.

  26. My dear Queen Whims would hear a good deal of sober sense, then; at least on one side: but I shall not ask her: for Mr. Thurnall and I have our deep secrets together.

  27. Jack's eyes are dropping out of his head to hear more of Bermuda, and you and I will put our whims and moods on one side, and we'll all tell travellers' tales together.

  28. And for all Charlie's whims and fancies, and in all his pain and fretfulness, and through fits of silence and sensitiveness, he had never a better friend than Isaac Irvine.

  29. And in this survey Nature dwindled to a minor Deity, a goddess with moods as many and whims as wild as a woman's.

  30. Whims and moods were proper to her condition, so the farmer maintained; but the fancy of eternally sequestering herself, the conceit of regarding as friends those ancient stones of the moor and crossroads, was beyond his power to appreciate.

  31. Doan't keep Him, as is allus busy, a waitin' your whims no more.

  32. Her little whims and vagaries, however unreasonable, must always be treated seriously, and with delicate and tactful consideration.

  33. She needs to have her little whims and foibles overlooked.

  34. I have many enemies and I must refuse to allow your whims and fantasies to annihilate the fruits of my past labours, for the good of my country.

  35. Her whims and caprices became the reins with which she drove France and the King.

  36. In the glass it was quite plainly a floating tree-trunk, felled or uprooted by storm maybe a long time ago and swept here by the whims of wind and current from God knew where.

  37. Who's to know all the whims of a green boy?

  38. You are fuller of whims than an egg is of meat, for the egg has a breathing space if the chick wants it.

  39. Thou hast small mind of thy own if thou takest a girl's whims for thy pattern," she answered with a show of disdain.

  40. Truly do we pay for our whims of caprice, M'sieu.

  41. Nearly all the information to be had was so mingled with erroneous whims and notions, that it required a long experience to separate essential and consistent points.

  42. They all smile indulgently, with the air of humouring the whims of a child whose words are not to be taken seriously.

  43. But girls sometimes take strange whims in these matters.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whims" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.