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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
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vagary
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synonyms: caprice, figary ???
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Definition:1. an unpredictable random occurance2. an impulse; a whim
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They didn't understand the vagaries of white folks, neither Luther or Mattie, and they didn't want to be bothered trying.
Langston Hughes. The Ways of White Folks:Slave on the Block p.25 (1934)
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Yet even now, his own sister puzzled him. Life and love have such strange vagaries.
Emma Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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As for Ida, [...] I blamed her none the less for it. In her native wilds I knew that such vagaries were permitted by the rules of society; but she ought surely to have known that in Europe they were not admissible.
Grant Allen. Strange Stories.
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And I did not want, later on, to have to explain the vagaries of half-cooked semi-sexual attraction in our busted species to a crying twelve-year-old home too early, heartbroken, from her seventh grade Winter Ball [...].
Drew Perry. Kids These Days, p.192 (2014)
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"A strange vagary, this of hers, isn't it, Oak?" said Coggan, curiously.
Thomas Hardy. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874)
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she remained in her place despite the vagaries of other hôtels.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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He held the knife in his hand, and pushed its point between my teeth: but, for my part, I was never much afraid of his vagaries.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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When he was strongly moved, as sometimes by the vagaries of the office boy, Percy, Willoughby's rather florid complexion always took on a deeper hue.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, p.151 (1971)
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His enlistment seemed just another of Leper s vagaries, such as the time he slept on top of Mount Katahdin in Maine where each morning the sun first strikes United States territory.
John Knowles. A Separate Peace, p.152 (1959)
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The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies' legs; the tremendous effects of a curve in a wrong place; not only troubled my waking hours, but reappeared before me in my sleep.
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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