980 examples of caprices in sentences

A sort of respect underlay all his patronising good-nature or caprices with her.

Eccentricities, caprices, and effects, of the imagination.

He accompanied her to Alexandria, exchanged the Roman garb for the Graeco-Egyptian costume of the court, and lent his power to the Queen to execute all her caprices.

No less than five little steeples, towers, or belfries, for neither word is exactly suitable to the architectural prodigies we wish to describe, rose above the roofs, denoting the sites of the same number of places of worship; an American village usually exhibiting as many of these proofs of liberty of conscience caprices of conscience would perhaps be a better termas dollars and cents will by any process render attainable.

"There would be little merit in being content with a world fashioned after our own caprices, though it may be questioned if we should be happier by having all things as we desire than by being compelled to submit to them as they are.

It was one of the caprices of this strange nature of ours, that he should feel a desire to console those whom he had so deeply injured himself.

It was Mr. Chambers himself who wrote of the caprices of the Mystic ThreeFate, Chance, and Destinyand how it frequently happened that a young man "tripped over the maliciously extended foot of Fate and fell plump into the open arms of Destiny."

Dared he to think, that, in his frequent visits to Miss Sandford, the ties which bound him to his betrothed were daily weakening?that he found a charm in the very caprices and waywardness of the new love, which the unvarying constancy and placid affection of the old had never created?

She repressed his passions, caprices and prejudices, and when any matter of serious importance arose in the administration of affairs, it was submitted to her before action was taken.

I can hear only the cry of the sea birds, gulls and scoters, who are abandoning themselves to the caprices of the wind.

As the caprices of King James' translators were not inspired, we need stand in no special awe of them.

It may be as good or it may be as bad as it will, but I nowhere find anything to which I am accustomed, and in the end it comes to much the same thing whether we depend for our enjoyment entirely on the regular order of custom, or entirely on the caprices of accident.

" In spite of her willfulness and caprices Mrs. Wilmott was full of generous impulses and loyal to her friends.

His caprices are sometimes generous, and his rebellion against the ugliness of life frequently makes him do kind things.

That is to say, it was straightforward and truthful; whereas the strange caprices of the later Renaissance too often betrayed a double mind, disloyal alike to paganism and to Christianity, in their effort to combine divergent forces.

However tastes may differ about the positive merits of his several works, there can be no doubt that the principles of sincerity, truth to nature, and technical accuracy they illustrate, were all-important in an age that lent itself too readily to the caprices of the fancy and the puerilities of florid taste.

You wonder that I have made you wait so long, that I should have made you suffer so with my caprices....

Are we still in those times, when men and things were sacrificed to the caprices of favour?

WODEHODSE, P. G. Les caprices de Miss Bennett (The girl on the boat) Traduit par Marguerite d'Avenel.

Twenty-four caprices for the violin.

SEE WILLIAMS, JOHN W. Twenty-four caprices for the violin.

And so it happens that many men go through life full of oddities, caprices, fancies, and prejudices, until they finally become fixed ideas.

Il faut que cela vienne de moi, as a woman once said to me, speaking of her caprices; a quotation, a chance word heard in an unexpected quarter.

Let then, the dear, tired husband, at the close of his daily labours, be made welcome by the endearments of his loving spouselet him be free from the care of having to satisfy the caprices of a petted wife.

Education, travel, intermarriage with foreigners, the introduction of new kinds of food) the adoption of new habits, may each and all have something to do with these successive changes; but of one point at least we may be certainand that is, that we painters are not responsible for her caprices.

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