Cadwallader had no patience with them, and now saw that her opinion of this girl had been infected with some of her husband's weak charitableness: those Methodistical whims, that air of being more religious than the rector and curate together, came from a deeper and more constitutional disease than she had been willing to believe.
A young lady of some birth and fortune, who knelt suddenly down on a brick floor by the side of a sick laborer and prayed fervidly as if she thought herself living in the time of the Apostles—who had strange whims of fasting like a Papist, and of sitting up at night to read old theological books!
But the slow-breeding mammals of the sea have been all but wiped out by humans seeking to satisfy their wants and whims.
The other part of the reason is they are not confident enough about themselves and easily surrender to the whims and fancies of men.
The definition of beauty is changing all the time and is dramatically different based on context, culture, and the ever-changing whims of the media.
While the rest of us are being urged to temper our whims to protect the planet's thermostat, the Chinese are determined to have their steak and eat it.
But the slow-breeding mammals of the sea have been all but wiped out by humans seeking to satisfy their wants and whims.
It doesn't just mean cultural exceptionalism; the phrase refers more precisely to the notion that cultural goods should not be subject to the whims of the free market—and should be protected from the homogenizing onslaught of global, and in particular American, cultural imperialism.
The village was quite a dangerous place because of the traffic especially for old people and children, their safety was more important to me than an old woman's whims.
The youth thought, that is a wonderful beast, he has strange whims, who on earth would want to buy gallows'-flesh.
"Oh, they will make capital brooms," said he; "and I like them because I have strange whims sometimes.
