But the most remarkable thing of all, was the whim of the ladies in the upper classes, of making themselves as much like birds as possible; in which art, it must be confessed, they were wonderfully successful.

The evening sunshine lingers on Dode's little house to-day; the brown walls have the same cheery whim in life as the soul of their mistress, and catch the last ray of light,will not let it go.

I beg you to consider and not go driving on from one foolish whim to another till you provoke us to withdraw from you the means of gratifying you in anything that may be even less objectionable than gunning.

And then you wooed me to become your bride, Me, scarce a maiden, naught but wilful child So prone, alas to mischief and mistake, Of humble fortune, with but whims for dower You were so kind, so generous, you flashed My low estate with splendour.

"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.

Henceforth he was destined to labour for a series of Popes, following their whims with distracted energies and a lamentable waste of time.

I may gratify a whim by informing the readers of the Border Tales that the secret of the mark on the child's back was never communicated to Mrs. Graeme.

The poor fellow, without further deliberation, put his whim into execution.

" "I don't know that," cried the sailor; "Bell is a good girl, but she has her quirks and whims like all the sex.

Mr. Locker had probably inherited his virtuoso's whim from his ancestors.

You drag me to the seaside in spite of myself, when you have never once had such a whim during all the forty-four years that we have been married.

She was fast tied to him, and he was satisfied; and now why not torment some of those Satanic whims out of her.

He would have been dead or in prison or the poorhouse years ago if Carmen had not chosen to rescue him, more through a whim than from genuine charity.

They are now roomy caverns, that, like Tilly Whim at Swanage, have every appearance of being natural.

In 1790, which was seven years after the appearance of his first grammar, he published an octavo volume of more than four hundred pages, consisting of Essays, moral, historical, political, and literary, which might have done him credit, had he not spoiled his book by a grammatical whim about the reformation of orthography.