Often for the most trifling fault; and, as sometimes occurs, because a mere whim or caprice of his brutal overseer demands it.

But for that foolish whim she would be safe now in the cool house at Middle Plantation, with a ship to take her to safety if the worst befell.

I remember Mr. Howel well, and kindly; for he was ever wont to indulge my childish whims, when a girl.

Perhaps you may find a teacher who will comply with your wishes; who will be exceedingly deferential to your little whims; will unhesitatingly accept your report of your own sensations and your hypotheses as to their cause; and, Esmeralda, when once your eyes behold that model man, be content, and go and take lessons of another, for either he is a pretentious humbug, careless of everything except his fees, or he is an ignoramus.

Gave she her gold for a girlish whim, A freak of a foolish mood?

See how peaceful she looks;" and with a sudden whim, Antony took the image and set it lying back on a soft cushion in a corner of the couch, at the same time throwing round its neck his black cloak, which he had cast off as he came in.

Julius III., in 1552, had bespoken Lucrezia for his bastard nephew, Fabiano Conte Del Montea man without resources and of no recognised position nor of good characterit was just a selfish whim of the Popethe children never saw each other.

And following some idle whim he soon found himself bidding for an old coat.

It is to-day and to-morrow you must think of: that you are restored to me, and that I have not only the means but a great hunger to make you happy, to gratify your slightest whim.

The Indian army tarried; why, I did not knowperhaps some mad whim of their soothsayers, perhaps the device of a wise general; but at any rate they tarried.

But they are admirably framed for the purpose of exhibiting striking groups of eccentric characters, each governed by his own peculiar whim, each talking his own peculiar jargon, and each bringing out by opposition the oddities of all the rest.

Shall I stand back for a girl's nervous whim?

All the world-famous Borghese jewels were hers to deck her beauty witha small Golconda of priceless gems; there was gold galore to satisfy her most extravagant whims; and she was still youngonly twenty-fiveand in the very zenith of her loveliness.

And this more careful study shows itself in him in no technical peculiarities or fantastic whims, against which the genius of our language revolts; but in a more exact adaptation of the movement to the feeling, and in a finer selection of particular words with reference to their local fitness for sense and sound.

But this did not succeed, until by a palace-revolution in Vienna a weak and cruel youth was placed on the throne of Austria, and a passionate woman got the reins of government in her hand, and an unprincipled, reckless adventurer was ready to carry out every imperial whim, regardless of the honour of his country and the interests of his master.

The word "humour" in his age stood for some characteristic whim or quality of society.

And always, at my side, was Jerry, seemingly living only upon my lightest whim and fancy.

"But, Max, he's all right, as far as I can see," expostulated Bandy-legs, in reality unwilling to keep up that violent exertion just to please some silly whim on the part of the fisherman, who, like as not, would give them the laugh after they came up puffing and blowing like porpoises.

It is said that this nobleman, amidst a thousand curiosities with which his gardens abounded, had the unaccountable whim of placing a kind of artificial hermit in one of its wildest and most solitary recesses.

I knew you were as true as steel under your funny little whims and contrariness; and could you really love me now that I am poor?" I replied with vigour: "Do you think I am that sort, that cares for a person only because he has a little money?

She stared at him a moment, then, obeying one of the odd whims that made an irascible weathercock of her, she said, abruptly, "If you had capital should you go into business for yourself, Mr. Lambkin?" "Yes, ma'am, at once," replied Van, promptly.

Why should we not take the harshest whim of chance for an excellent jest and a most frolicsome caprice, since we, like our love, are immortal?

It reminded all of the reason for the annual celebration, and all were happy to recall the way they had been freed from the heartless whims of the cruel-hearted old woman.

In Japan the woman remains subject to the hourly whims and wants of her husband, and to his frequent infidelity, though she is true to him.

The talk about a professorship was in her estimation the wayward, humorous whim of an eccentric who was fond of solemn joking.