Well, Thanks to the whimsical Extravagance and Folly of Mankind, I believe, from these childish Toys and gilded Baubles, I shall pick up a comfortable Maintenance.
Well, Madam, how do you like this whimsical Humourist?
The whimsical or the Hanover Tories continued zealous in appearance with us till the peace was signed.
On the first the whimsical Tories joined the Whigs, and declared directly against their party.
When I see a woman going through the streets with swelling hoops, the most whimsical fancies come into my mind.
Ida has still the same finely carved head as formerly; but that head, to the grief of Emil, is full of stubbornness--full of whimsical nonsense.
She had no time to make whimsical speeches to Andy Green, nor he to listen.
Miss Allen stepped back and the twinkle came into her eyes and the whimsical twist to her lips.
He could not help contrasting Katharine with his vision of the engaging, whimsical Cassandra; Katharine undemonstrative, inconsiderate, silent, and yet so notable that he could never do without her good opinion.
His deep, oval-shaped eyes were fixed upon the flames, but behind the superficial glaze seemed to brood an observant andwhimsical spirit, which kept the brown of the eye still unusually vivid.
I think it is a very whimsical idea and extremely droll.
The rules and discipline of the halau, the school for the hula, from our point of view, were a mixture of shrewd common sense and whimsical superstition.
The Hawaiians were much impressed by such whimsical nominalisms.
Then his face lost its whimsical expression and became interested.
No," said John Derringham; but he would not look at his old master, for he knew very well he should see a whimsical sparkle in his eyes.
She saw the whimsical twinkle in his but heeded it not.
His old pupil shook it heartily, and Cheiron, seeing that joyous light in his eyes, raised his left penthouse with a whimsical smile.
He promised faithfully, and she never saw the whimsical gleam in his eyes, because for the moment having gained her end her faculties had resumed their normal condition, which was not one of superlative sensitiveness.
The mostwhimsical cynic, as well as one of the greatest scholars I have ever come across in my life.
Things are changing, Halcyone," he had said, with the whimsical raising of his left penthouse brow.
Mrs. Cricklander glanced stealthily at his whimsical face, to be sure whether he were joking or no--and decided he probably was.
He set them down beside her with the oldwhimsical laugh in his eyes.
In spite of the poor fellow's tragic story, there was something so ludicrous in his appearance, and the whimsical contrast between his military dress and his most unmilitary demeanor, that we could not help smiling at them.
This performance, whimsical as it is, retains all that softness of tint and delicacy of pencil for which Polemburg is so renowned.
At this he turned to stare with an expression of whimsical dubiety and thereafter fell to rubbing his unshaven chin as rather at a loss.
After this whimsical manner she lavished presents upon her whenever she had a new fancy.
The turning of keys and unlocking of drawers roused her to a whimsical meditative wonder.
Why, certainly, I have more reason to trust my own eyes than such whimsical notions as these.
The bad effects of a whimsical study, which some will say is borrowed from Cervantes.
The whimsical fancy in it, the absolute comprehension of a child's intellect, the quickness with which the writer employs the slightest incident or thing that would be likely to please a little girl, is simply wonderful.
The adventure had not turned out as well as he had hoped; and, with a whimsical look at me, he laid a crown on the table, said a kind word to the boy, and we went out.
But Pinturicchio, like the strange and whimsical man that he was, made such an outcry at this, and repeated it so often, that finally in despair the friars set themselves to carry it away.
He was a good man and a religious, but whimsical in brain and obstinate: and he would never leave Florence, for all the offers that were made to him, but lived and died in that city.
Jack, stroking his moustache, and smiling to himself in whimsical fashion.
Each word she uttered in that whimsical tone was like a needle pricking his heart.
There was no mockery in her expression at that moment, though she could not forego a whimsical little taunt.
The bard often offended and often appeased this whimsicalbut very clever lady.
This beautiful and accomplished lady, the heavenly Burnet, as Burns loved to call her, was daughter to the odd and the elegant, the clever and the whimsical Lord Monboddo.
As she spoke, her somewhat startling announcement presented itself to her in a serio-comic light, and a whimsicaltwinkle came into her eyes.
One of the few remarks extant made by Goldsmith during his tour is the following, of whimsical import, in his Animated Nature.
There are certain whimsical traits in the character of Byrne, not given in the foregoing sketch.
A proof of the easy and playful terms in which he was with them remains in a whimsical epistle in verse, of which the following was the occasion.
Fortunately, in the height of his whimsical perplexity, he met the cawdy or porter who had carried his trunk, and who now served him as a guide.
He then runs into a whimsical and extravagant tirade about his future prospects.
He has perceived Goldsmith's whimsical peculiarities without properly appreciating his merits, and is prone to indulge in broad bantering and raillery at his expense, particularly irksome if indulged in presence of the ladies.
Beauclerc simply scanned his person with a whimsical glance, and hoped that, like Falstaff, "he'd in future purge and live cleanly like a gentleman.
We have stated his great objection to clerical life, the obligation to wear a black coat; and, whimsical as it may appear, dress seems in fact to have formed an obstacle to his entrance into the church.
In the Vicar of Wakefield he makes George Primrose undergo a whimsical catechism concerning the requisites for an usher.
With all his gravity he possessed a deep fund of quiet humor, and felt a kind of whimsical responsibility to protect the club from the absurd propensities of the very questionable associate he had thus inflicted on them.
It was in whimsical parody of those gay and somewhat promiscuous assemblages that Goldsmith used to call the motley evening parties at his lodgings "little Cornelys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whimsical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
