A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
They were both roused from theirvagary by the voice of General Triscoe.
The battle of the past seemed only a vagary of mine; yet how could I doubt the warrior at my elbow?
Every seeming vagary of the mind had serious importance, and answered to some real need of man as a sober attempt to read the riddle of the earth, and get at its inmost secret.
I don't know what the vagary is, sir, but the permission is assured in advance," laughed Dick.
Prescott," called the doctor, "we forgot to write and secure your permission for this latest vagaryof mine.
With the unintelligible vagary of thought, while his breast seemed crushed, his heart broken, he had imagined himself adrift on that surging river, and he had planned his escape through the rapids.
Logs and pieces of debris were kept rolling there for hours before some vagary of current caught them and released them.
But the strangest part of the affair is the effect of this vagary even on a sober-minded man like myself.
Here some vagary appears to have bewildered us, for our tracks go round and round and are confusedly intermingled, as if we had found a labyrinth upon the level beach.
Not that this couple be in want of one, but 'twas well to show 'em a bit of friendliness at this great racketingvagary of their lives.
If not, the world by her failure to make good would be impoverished, and her vagary proved wrong.
If she could, and grew in strength of character thereby, it was ipso facto all right, her vagary would be proved an advantage, and the world enriched.
With years enough behind his back, Lincoln will take the selfsame track, And prove, hulled fairly to the cob, A mere vagary of Old Prob.
And what greater phonetic vagary (which Dryden, by the way, called fegary) in our lingua rustica than this ker for couvre?
Almo has practically repeated the vagary he perpetrated at Hippo.
It was a delightful vagary of the imagination, which the morning light, looking in through the little checker-work window, gently dispelled.
That, too, at the outset, was a fantastic vagary in the opinion of thousands of solid and respectable farmers.
Julian found himself again wondering, with Cuckoo, mightily at Valentine's vagary of desire.
Just where it would next sweep the deck between the masts depended on the vagary of wave and wind.
Mayo stared after her, wrinkling his forehead for a moment, as if he had discovered some new vagary in femininity to puzzle him.
How near they would pass depended on the vagary of the waves and the tide.
Defn: A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.
Ay, I know how your fancy has run, against natural liking for the dark-haired and dark-eyed of your own race; your vagary goes after fair hair and grey eyes.
Rhoda, bewildered, owned to her sinking heart that here showed such vagary of his wits as passed her reckoning.
An unforgettable figure, this, as he stood there with lifted head, concentrating upon the vagarywhich had brought him to a standstill.
It was only a plaything of mind--a vagary of altitude and immensity.
A vagary of nature, wherein she has displayed less of her infinite wisdom than is usual.
Vagary is as hard a word to turn into English as quadruped.
But, as the quadruped is now formed, I call it a mere vagary of nature; no other than a vagary.
