I could not tell yet, but the time must come now when these vagaries would end in one thing or another.
Somehow the vagariesof our hope or of our fancy, like ourselves, look their best by gas-light, and show a very disappointing complexion in the open daylight.
My library was stocked with dreamy and diverting compositions--old Walton, the pensive angler; the vagariesof ancient Burton, and the placid essayists of the Addisonian day.
But who could rely upon the vagaries of an old man, who could do nothing but make memoranda out of his window upon the doings of his neighbors?
Sleep leaves a door on hinge Whence soul, ere our flesh suspect, Is off and away: detect Her vagaries when loose, who can!
The school-correctness, sure of wise award When myvagaries cease to tickle taste?
The schoolmaster does not seem to have been a very general institution in the days when some of the older colonists were young; and a business correspondence with Karroo farmers sometimes elicits the wildest vagaries of orthography.
At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him gazing upon vacancy for long hours, in an attitude of the profoundest attention, as if listening to some imaginary sound.
Dutton, like most careless dressing men, looked best in the regulation simplicity of evening clothes, in which the despotism of fashion curbs all vagaries of fancy.
Such attempts were often lost amid the vagariesof fanaticism and heresy, which soon threatened the foundation of the social fabric, and often came into collision with the State.
The vagaries of Pack (§ 132, 1) led to a revival and intensification of the spirit of persecution.
That in a spiritual movement so powerful as that which the Reformation called forth enthusiasts and extremists of various sorts should seek to push forward their fancies and vagaries is nothing more than might have been expected.
While on the one hand, he proceeded along the path opened by Iamblichus to develop vagaries about dæmons and theurgical fancies, on the other hand, he gave to his school an impulse in the direction of scholarly and encyclopædic culture.
I swear to heaven that my lowest cynical ideas of women, and the loathing with which their simply animal vagaries inspires a thoughtful man, are distanced and made to seem a benevolent criticism, by the actualities of my experience.
The farmer could have made allowance for Rhoda's behaving so, seeing that she notoriously possessed intellect; and he had the habit of charging all freaks and vagaries of manner upon intellect.
One does not protest against the vagaries of a den of wild beasts; and my companions were lower than any beasts.
There is no law whereby you can account for the vagaries of the heathen," said the Chaplain's wife, "and I believe that Lispeth was always at heart an infidel.
The answers to these are as varied as the vagaries of rude imagination permit.
But apology for such omission here is the less needful, since the list of ancient and modern vagaries would have the monotony of a catalogue.
There was a madman in Seville who took to one of the drollest absurdities and vagaries that ever madman in the world gave way to.
The slave stared at him: but he was accustomed to the vagaries of philosophers; and thanking the gods that he was not born in that station of life, retired to his porter's cell, and forgot the whole matter.
Indeed, I am inclined to attribute the insanevagaries of the water-drinking monks and nuns, like those of the Argive women, to the same celestial anger.
The vagariesof the lightning, and the frightful power that it exhibited, were especially terrifying.
He found that the official meteorologists were totally unable to account for the marvelousvagaries of the weather.
This is perhaps an excuse for those vagaries in youth, those seemingly inexplicable adventures which shock the old who have forgotten what it is to be young.
To have listened to Rebecca's description of the great fight in "Ivanhoe," to have lived through the tournament of Ashby de la Zouche, was a poor preparation for the vagaries of the queer creatures that surrounded the inimitable Alice.
Impatient with Nancy, because of the vagaries resultant from her mental and physical state, he himself exhibited a flagrant triumph of instinct over reason.
She has even a little property of her own; and I shouldn't wonder if she has friends who might make a disturbance if her--her vagaries could be in any way connected with me and my circle.
But God's being like man, though infinitely exalted above him, and unspeakably perfected in every faculty and power, puts to shame these dark vagaries about the inutility of delegated powers.
Do you know that these vagaries are the creatures of your avarice, and mere creations of your fancy?
The mind is usually compared in its fleetness with the winds, and therefore the task of the breezes is imposed upon the thoughts, which are as vagaries unless they answer one's purposes).
They kept a watchful eye upon the extravagances and vagaries of High Life, but mainly as it revealed itself in its public form or in politics.
The vagaries of military uniforms--apart from the intrusions of Prince Albert--call for separate treatment.
And so it happens that the vagaries of book-hunters are often passing strange.
The vagaries of a whole army of book-collectors are reflected from every page of works such as these, for a man must necessarily be a book-collector first, and a Grangerizer after, else would material fail him.
The one from "Lucia di Lammermoor" is very celebrated, but its music no more expresses the vagaries of madness than does any other florid aria.
He confers with his wife about Hamlet's alarming behavior, but their conversation is interrupted by the prince himself, who greets them moodily and assumes more vagaries than he feels.
Even the vagaries of editor and scribe will not account for all the incoherences, disorder and inconsequence, and for the vain iterations which suggest that the author has forgotten what he said.
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