whimsicalness

“But still one can see signs of caprice and a certain whimsicalness and irritability.”

The Insulted and the Injured 2003

Elizabeth lost faith in herself as she saw her apparent whimsicalness and began to lash herself into line as John and his mother wished.

The Wind Before the Dawn Dell H. Munger

I could not help thinking of the whimsicalness of chance, which had seen fit to make me the solitary companion of a woman of whose existence I knew nothing a few hours before.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

After lunch they walked back to the State house together, Truslow regarding his thoughtful companion with sidelong whimsicalness.

In the Arena Stories of Political Life Booth Tarkington 1907

After lunch they walked back to the State house together, Truslow regarding his thoughtful companion with sidelong whimsicalness.

Mrs. Protheroe 1905

At last it came, on his part, to a titanic whimsicalness of assent.

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

One can still find such fascinating prejudices, such frank enthusiasms of ignorance, where there's good fishing; and then, in the stray hamlets, there is the grave whimsicalness and the calm superior air of austerity to cultured people.

The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903

The Orientals showed more intelligence and justice: they declared they were men's property; and, in fact, nature has made them our slaves, and it is only by our whimsicalness that they presume to be our sovereigns; they abuse their advantages to mislead and control us.

The Court of the Empress Josephine Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867

It seems that between Italy and Sicily there is a strait called Faro of Messina, where the tide ebbs and flows every six hours, and the fickleness of lucks tides in Faro where it ebbs and flows every six minutes, furnishes a felicitous illustration of the whimsicalness of the tides of Faro de Messina, and the game may have derived its name from that fact.

A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling. 1862

He complained that the colonel starves his works out of whimsicalness and frugality, endeavouring to do every thing with his own people, and at the same time taking them off upon every vagary that comes into his head.

The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published 1841