How To Use Caprice In A Sentence

Niece," said Don Inocencio gravely and sententiously, "when serious things have taken place, caprices are not called caprices, but by another name. Dona Perfecta
The $300 million palace was built to satisfy the caprice of one man.
I was feeling the exhaustion keenly - but not enough to make a complete ass of myself during choir, which inched by like a violist playing Paganini caprices.
Not by the wildest caprice of imagination was ‘a nation terrorized’ by McCarthy.
He was also able to draw on first-hand knowledge of the caprices of the writing life.

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To capture the mystery, caprice and force of romantic love, the ancients conjured Cupid, a mischievous immortal in whose thrall we are wholly powerless.
The two men on the floor wrestled with Caprice, and Eoin lunged. 365 tomorrows » 2006 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
But now, with Morgan's depiction of her caprices and attempts to outwit him, she suddenly sounds quite normal.
Not for them exactingness, caprice, the gay or grave analysis of love and lover: such moods charm alone in lovely women, and even in _them_ bring risks along. Browning's Heroines
Our whims and caprices are discanted on with apparent earnestness of truth, and seeming sincerity of conviction. The Drama
Oh, my own Ba, hear _my_ plain speech -- and how this is _not_ an attempt to frighten you out of your dear wish to '_hear_ from me' -- no, indeed -- but a whim, a caprice, -- and now it is out! over, done with! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
Even those who need emergency hospital care will be subjected to the caprices and bureaucratic diktat of the soldiers guarding the gates.
Dubost had herself conceived the ballet as a musical caprice and had given the ten leaves of her fan to ten different composers asking each of them to compose a single dance number.
Lawless insolence, and wanton caprice" [Trench]. to work all uncleanness -- The Greek implies, "with a deliberate view to the working (as if it were their work or business, not a mere accidental fall into sin) of uncleanness of every kind." with greediness -- Greek, "in greediness. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
I was a rich heiress – I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty – or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit. Belinda
I lived in terror of her sudden caprices and moods.
These alterations have no other authority than the caprice of the translators, acting in the interests of a purer, austerer, but more timid theology. Introduction to the Old Testament
To make my own happiness the end of my moral activity-eudemonism-is irrational and immoral; for, because of the fortuity of the outward conditions of happiness, and of the heterogeneousness of claims upon happiness, the moral would be rendered dependent upon accident and. caprice. Christian Ethics. Volume I.��History of Ethics.
The way that Gondry goes for broke with insanely inventive special effects and gripping caprices is actually inspiring. Another 10 Movies to Watch Stoned/High » Scene-Stealers
What between helping to spoil Bismarck's digestion and whiling away the golden afternoons with Caprice (for we'd abandoned our nocturnal meetings, and I was collecting her reports in the mornings) I was in pretty bobbish form, and took to promenading about the town in search of amusement. Watershed
In the air-conditioned comfort of the ship's stately lounges my whims and caprices are anticipated by the quintessential British crew.
Francis Wayland, a prominent theologian, antislavery activist, and longtime president of Brown University in the decades before the Civil War, spoke for many of the cloth when he warned that “thoughtless caprice,” “sensual self-indulgence,” and “reckless expense” were not only sinful but also socially ruinous. A Renegade History of the United States
These are qualities that foreigners admire, accustomed as they more usually are to the caprices of their own leaders.
The caprice of the draw created an intriguing dynamic, as the top-half quarter-final pairings constituted a pair of rematches from the Hyder semis.
The didacticism of this passage demonstrates that the caprice of nature expresses the narrator's perspective and not the other way around.
But the spirit that endures the mere cruelties and caprices of an established despot is the spirit of an ancient and settled and probably stiffened society, not the spirit of a new one.
Their rule of chastening is what may seem fit to their own often erring judgment, temper, or caprice. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Effeminacy, softness, and caprice attitudinize before us. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
There was a tendency to de-personalize this divine being, and with this came an absence of caprice, that is, the regularity of natural phenomena was made to depend on a regularity in the operation of their cause or causes. CAUSATION
After the long, corrupt reign of an old debauched Prince, whose vices were degrading to himself and to a nation groaning under the lash of prostitution and caprice, the most cheering changes were expected from the known exemplariness of his successor and the amiableness of his consort. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
Every state and government in the world is now vulnerable to the caprices and blackmails of financial markets.
He was also able to draw on first-hand knowledge of the caprices of the writing life.
I exclaim against the laws which throw the whole weight of the yoke on the weaker shoulders, and force women, when they claim protectorship as mothers, to sign a contract, which renders them dependent on the caprice of the tyrant, whom choice or necessity has appointed to reign over them. Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
I hated to be classed, cribbed, rebuked, and feruled at the pleasure of one who, as it seemed to me, knew no guide in his rewards but caprice, and no prompter in his punishments but passion. Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
But with the kind of lifestyle and work schedule most of us have we tend to set aside some of our 'caprices' like a relaxing day at the beach and enjoy sun tanning. Isulong WeBlog
The reason for a with profits fund to be more heavily invested in shares than in fixed interest stocks is not a product of caprice or thoughtless gambling.
Dip in, and let yourself be governed by mood and caprice.
Paganini's 24th caprice for solo violin, itself a variation on an original theme, was creatively diversified by Brahms, Liszt, Szymanowski and, most lyrically, Rachmaninov.
Our gastrosopher was speaking only of the culinary caprices of man rendered fastidious by the sweets of life; but he might, in a more serious department of thought, have given his formula a wider and more general bearing and applied it to the dishes which vary so greatly according to latitude, climate and customs; he might above all have taken into his reckoning the harsh realities suffered by the common people, when perhaps his ideal of moral worth would have been found in More Hunting Wasps
Francis Wayland, a prominent theologian, antislavery activist, and longtime president of Brown University in the decades before the Civil War, spoke for many of the cloth when he warned that “thoughtless caprice,” “sensual self-indulgence,” and “reckless expense” were not only sinful but also socially ruinous. A Renegade History of the United States
I ... hope, that, between publick business, improving studies, and domestick pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance. On between each
So I sat down, and put myself right with a brandy; mention of Bismarck always unmans me, but the fact was I was curious, not least about the delectable Mamselle Caprice. Watershed
Any man who to secure your real interests opposes your wishes and never speaks to get applause but deliberately chooses politics as his profession (a business in which chance exercises greater influence than human reason), being perfectly ready to answer for the caprices is a really brave and useful citizen. Authors of Greece
The husband's faithlessness is called a caprice, an adventure, a craving or madness of the senses. His Excellency the Minister
The San Andreas last ruptured in 1906, and in doing so all but destroyed the city of San Francisco - the last time that a great American city was wrecked by a caprice of nature.
Meal for two, including drinks and service, £130Sitting in a corner by the bar at 34, the new restaurant from the group behind the Ivy and Le Caprice among others, is a box-fresh baby grand piano. Restaurant review: 34
Their leaders have learned the hard way that, within their well-managed tropical island states, no election verdict, no constitutional custom or habit, no parliament’s decision, no ordinary citizen’s commonplace prerogative is safe from an intrusive America whose caprices and policies are neither fairer, nor more predictable, nor more morally conscionable than the vagaries of hurricanes. Happy Independence Day, Haiti
The popes always upheld with earnestness the episcopal authority, and sought to free the inquisitional tribunals from every kind of arbitrariness and caprice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Certainly the French father might have followed the custom of his class and country, and coerced his young daughter into the acceptance of any husband he might have chosen for her; but he did not feel disposed to use harsh measures with his only and idolized child; he rather preferred to exercise patience and forbearance toward her, until she should have outlived what he called her childish caprices. The Lost Lady of Lone
This was the history of the hoop skirt and the Grecian bend, and has been that of most of the extremes which have marked the past, and we can readily believe that in no other way could womanhood have been insnared by such supreme and criminal folly as has characterized fashion's caprices in unnumbered instances. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
They drank the rage or the lust or the caprice of mortals whose souls returned to dissolve in this sea of energy.
Research is disappointing work when the experimenter is the slave of the return and the caprices of a brief season of the year. Social Life in the Insect World
I lived in terror of her sudden caprices and moods.
I knew nothing of this, of course, and on the penultimate day of the Congress, a Friday, as I was strolling home enjoying the morning after a strenuous late breakfast with Caprice, I was taken flat aback by Blowitz's moon face goggling at me from the window of a drosky drawn up near my hotel. Watershed
This habit of taking tobacco gradually extended from the extremities of the north to those of the south, and, in one form or other, seems to be equally grateful to the inhabitants of every climate; and by a singular caprice of the human species, no less inexplicable than unexampled (so bewitching is the acquired taste for Confederate Prisoners at Roanoke Island
Miss Anderson, who claimed a collateral Dutch ancestry by the Van Hook, tucked in between her non-committal family name and the Julia given her in christening, was of the ordinary slender make of American girlhood, with dull blond hair, and a dull blond complexion, which would have left her face uninteresting if it had not been for the caprice of her nose in suddenly changing from the ordinary American regularity, after getting over its bridge, and turning out distinctly 'retrousse'. April Hopes
There is hardly any one here who can understand what they call my caprice of entering the priesthood, and these good people tell me, with rustic candor, that I ought to throw aside the clerical garb; that to be a priest is very well for a poor young man; but that I, who am to be a rich mans heir, should marry, and console the old age of my father by giving him half a dozen handsome and robust grandchildren. March 22d. Part I.—Letters from My Nephew
They are guarded better by their calculations than a virgin by her mother and her convent; and they have invented the word caprice for that unbartered love which they allow themselves from time to time, for a rest, for an excuse, for a consolation, like usurers, who cheat Camille
I think you are too apprehensive in regard to your sister's happiness: he loves her, and there is a certain variety in her manner, a kind of agreable caprice, that I think will secure the heart of a man of his turn, much more than her merit, or even the loveliness of her person. The History of Emily Montague
It is not an inanimate thing, like a house, to be pulled down or enlarged or structurally altered at the caprice of the tenant or owner; it is a living thing.
The walls were brightly frescoed with "caprices" of nymphs and loves sporting under the blue among flowers and birds. Romola
As with many other puzzles, the caprices of politics have reinforced the legacy of history.
For my part, I would rather be condemned for life to the galleys than exercise the office of a cicisbeo, exposed to the intolerable caprices and dangerous resentment of an Italian virago.
Our only standard of taste in cooking is personal appetite and caprice. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution
Hervey, 'that she wondered that a man who was so well acquainted with the female sex should be surprised at any instance of caprice from a woman.' Belinda
Her character was not of the kind which could safely be left to its own development, for she called her caprices justice and her obstinacy principle, a mode of viewing life not conducive to much permanent satisfaction when not modified by the salutary restraint of a more sensible companion. Paul Patoff
Chia Cheng's departure, indulged his caprices, allowed his feelings to run riot, and gadded wildly about. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
No. Much of what is going through the press on the subject of pottery will have its use as promoting the advancement and clearing up the history of fictile art, and will therefore be preserved, while a larger portion will interest only the few who delve into the records of human caprice and whim. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.
a stranger, who I could urge no claim of consanguinity upon him, absolutely astonished them; and their resentment at his caprice -- or rather what they termed his dotage -- was not only deep, but loud. The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
In the most improbable fiction, the reader still desires some air of vraisemblance, and does not relish that the incidents of a tale familiar to him should be altered to suit the taste of critics, or the caprice of the Author himself. Waverley
Paula seemed struck by the generous and cheerful fairness of his remarks, and said gently, 'Perhaps your departure is not absolutely necessary for my happiness; and I do not wish from what you call caprice --' A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
They subscribe to it not for reasons of caprice, but because eminent judicial authority has reiterated the notion over the years.
The beast either deemed the burden inequable and unjust (for the Arabian camel, like the Peruvian llama, has a very acute perception of fair play in this respect) or a fit of caprice had entered its mulish head. The Boy Slaves
The least interest could make him abandon his honor; the smallest pleasure could seduce him from his interest; the most frivolous caprice was sufficient to counterbalance his pleasure* [** missing period] The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part F. From Charles II. to James II.
Minor incidents still concern. capriceo0116 RT@DrWayneWDyer Say a private prayer today for every person you read or hear about who's a victim of a violent crime no matter how distant qutequte PPl who ate a sweet everyday r 10times more likely 2b convicted of a violent #crime by age 34. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
One day the King in a fit of caprice, sent a message to Kabir to come and sing before him.
They are illustrations of a general physiological law that in some cases might be called a caprice of nature, in virtue of which the rudiments of a process that is to be effected at a future epoch are sketched out during an epoch already existing. The Education of American Girls
He was not in strictness a prisoner; but who could trust to the caprice of these lawless men? Chapter 5 - Part IV
It was an odd caprice of fate that an actor who would have preferred doing classical texts made his fame and fortune in something based on a comic book.
How they will alter and vary, never the same for long together, but led by indiscoverable caprices and obedient to some further will. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance
Yet that is the caprice, that is the unreasonable, the foul, the gross, the monstrous, the outrageous, incredible injustice of which we are hourly guilty towards the whole unhappy race of negroes. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
Here he was, subject to the caprice and ill-will of a sour and miserly Senior Warden, and a cowed and at least partially "bossed" vestry -- and he, the rector, with no practical power of appeal for the enforcement of his legal contract. Hepsey Burke
The recent practice of using foreign laws as bases for judicial decisions about American laws likewise turns law into the caprices John Stuart Mill feared more than he feared bad laws.
I was a rich heiress -- I had, I believe, a hundred thousand pounds, or more, and twice as many caprices: I was handsome and witty -- or, to speak with that kind of circumlocution which is called humility, the world, the partial world, thought me a beauty and a bel-esprit. Tales and Novels — Volume 03
If I throw ambs-ace," I said, with a smile for my own caprice, "curse me if I do not take Rolfe's advice! To Have and to Hold
She is no demi-mondaine, la belle Caprice, but she is ... a woman of the world, let us say. Watershed
The $300 million palace was built to satisfy the caprice of one man.
Unless you live in Spain, it is difficult to count the layers of irony stacked up alongside that idea, after 103 years in which the caprice of human judgement would appear to have rather favoured the famous team in white.
He may yet fail to survive: to second-guess the caprices of Blackburn's distant poultry magnates would be folly, and six defeats in nine Premier League matches before this draw, not to mention rumours of an altercation between supporters and a member of Kean's coaching staff in midweek, had combined to create a sense of crisis. Steve Kean encouraged by eager Blackburn despite draw with Norwich
Both of my grandfathers left Southern Germany for America in the 1880s to escape what George Washington called in his Farewell Address "the toils of European ambition, rivalship and caprice. Shannyn Moore: Frankly, Sarah...I Don't Give a Damn
He was to compliment the mistress, and bribe the confessor, to panegyrize or supplicate, to laugh or weep, to accommodate himself to every caprice, to lull every suspicion, to treasure every hint, to be everything, to observe everything, to endure everything. Machiavelli
Nevertheless, we should at least expect some caprice or cunning from our thieves.
To behave according to caprice is to oscillate mechanically between two or more ready-made alternatives and at length to settle on one of them; it is no real maturing of an internal state, no real evolution; it is merely -- however paradoxical the assertion may seem -- bending the will to imitate the mechanism of the intellect. Evolution créatrice. English
26 As we argue in the conclusion of this paper, unpremeditated exploration applies not only to the caprice as the representation of architecture in painting but links the imaginary edifice to narratives of travel in the literary text.
Fancy, in this sense, falls a little short of oddity (bizarrerie) and caprice. A Philosophical Dictionary
It has as its virtue the quality of being opposed to red tape, professionalism, departmentalism pedantry, officiousness, intolerance, lethargy, and the tyranny of custom; it has its dangers in that, resting as it does in the last resort on the personal and the concrete, it tends in ill-balanced minds to neglect the value of ancient and dear illusions, and to degenerate into chaos and caprice. Personality in Literature
He held none of his curacies long, either losing them from the caprice of his principals, or being compelled to resign them from the parsimony which they practised towards him. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
The pearls -- which she always wore -- some coral ornaments, and a handful of amber beads were her only dower, but her caprices were the insolent and extravagant caprices of a queen. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
The $300 million palace was built to satisfy the caprice of one man.
How funny it would be, if the French some day, as a novelty, or what they would call a caprice, were to try the effect of truth; "though not naturally honest," as Autolycus says, "were to become so by chance. Biographical Study of A W Kinglake
Yet, notwithstanding all this, if the laws be continually despised and disregarded, if their rights to be secure in their persons and property, are held by no better tenure than the caprice of a mob, the alienation of their affections from the Government is the natural consequence; and to that, sooner or later, it must come. Think Progress » ‘The Hero of Guantanamo’ Speaks
If the jealous caprice of power had disappointed his expectations, if he had prudently declined the paths of greatness, the employment of the same talents in studious solitude would have placed beyond the reach of kings his present happiness and his immortal fame. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
In our modern world, after all, power rarely lies hidden behind, say, Roman flat or the caprice of royal edict, at least not in the colonizing countries.
On one hand, there was an exciting variety about Caprice's boudoir behaviour, the merry concubine performing for the fun of it; on t'other, my horsey charmer was wildly passionate and spoony about me - and there was more of her. Watershed
The entire people are slaves owned by the Sultan and these Datos, who exercise over the unfortunate wretches the worst species of tyrannical power; for as these nobles or _reguli_ are subject to no law but there own caprice, if any slave displeases his master, he can, without the slightest fear of having to give any account of the circumstance to a living soul, draw his kris, and murder the slave. Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850
No more pretext, no caprice of Court or Cabinet, no cause whatever, unless it involved national dignity or we are denied a positive right, could justify the representatives of this State in consenting to a war with foreign Foreign and Colonial News
The baron might possibly have perceived it, but attributing it to a caprice, feigned ignorance.
When I asked tremulously for an ice cream at Le Caprice and was presented instead with a sorbet, I perceived deliberate deceit and collapsed into hysterical sobs.
An appalling scheme of self-amusement is seen in his "Caprice," in which a theme of eight measures 'length is instrumented with almost every contrapuntal device known, and with psychological variety that runs through five movements, scherzando, vigoroso, con sentimento, religioso, and a marcia fantastico. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
Her narrative follows a loopy line traced more by mood and caprice than by causation or chronology.
Poussin's view of the genre, as a representation modelled on true nature, echoes the meaning of the caprice in at least one form of literature.
a kind of agreable caprice, that I think will secure the heart of a man of his turn, much more than her merit, or even the loveliness of her person. The History of Emily Montague
What the decline did involve everywhere was decivilization; the loss of letters, of laws, of roads and means of communication, the exaggeration of local colour into caprice. A Short History of England
Dress up like him and play one of his caprices with that wild hair.
They drank the rage or the lust or the caprice of mortals whose souls returned to dissolve in this sea of energy.
He is not what we call orthodox; yet this is not from pride or caprice or from a desire to play a part. The Youth of Goethe
Though the trunk and all the inner boughs and leaves have disappeared, yet there hang here and there fossil leaves, also in mid-air; they appear to have been petrified, without method or selection, by what we call the caprices of nature; they hang in the path which the boughs and twigs would have taken, and they seem to indicate that if the tree could have been seen a million years earlier, before it had grown near its present size, the leaves standing at the end of each bough would have been found very different from what they are now. God the Known and God the Unknown
The result of a searching determination to deal with personal and not typical forms of temperament is seen in the firmness of the portraiture in _The Wild Duck_, where, I think, less than ever before, is to be found a trace of that incoherency which is to be met with occasionally in all the earlier works of Ibsen, and which seems like the effect of a sudden caprice or change of the point of view. Henrik Ibsen
The Wild Duck, where, I think, less than ever before, is to be found a trace of that incoherency which is to be met with occasionally in all the earlier works of Ibsen, and which seems like the effect of a sudden caprice or change of the point of view. Henrik Ibsen
“But still one can see signs of caprice and a certain whimsicalness and irritability.” The Insulted and the Injured
Fellini's tale of a middle-aged woman sloughing off her inhibitions is a caprice of a piece, a helter-skelter slide through the stages of abandon.
(which most people call caprices) underlying the phenomena of this delicious phase of life, when childhood is both flower and fruit, a confused intelligence, a perpetual movement, a powerful desire. Ursula
If cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties, then its one-day version is sheer caprice.
Human caprice crumbles before this necessity; there can be no human autonomy in the face of technical autonomy.
Mr. Webster defines ‘freak’ as a sudden causeless change of mind, a whim of fancy, a vagary, a caprice.
And that is the difference: Nowadays our wars are so far from necessary that their cruelty and caprice still the urge to speak.
Philosophers advise self-reliance, but whether the vagaries of science or the caprices of the gods, the ways of healing are just too complex for most people to manage without help.
But that might be less upsetting to witness than the scene here in Addis, where uncomplaining Ethiopians submit humbly to the bitter caprice of clinical selection.
Anyway, Mamselle Caprice must have been the Messalina Prizewoman of her year; no demi-mondaine perhaps, according to Blowitz, but as expert an amateur as I'd ever struck, with the priceless gift of fairly revelling in her sex, and using it with joyous abandon ... and considerable calculation, as I was about to learn. Watershed
My one regret as I tooled back to London was that I hadn't been able to bid a riotous farewell to Caprice; she'd been worth the trip, ne'er mind spoking Otto's wheel, and I found myself smiling fondly as I thought of Punch and the gauzy lace clinging to that houri shape in the sunlight ... Watershed
It was a time of enthusiasms, caprice and reckless technologies. THE BROKEN GOD
Studies for solo violin include Paganini's brilliant 24 caprices, which provided a fertile source of inspiration for other composers.
Essentially, what has happened to O'Neill is no more than life, with all its vagaries and caprices.
There are vast schemes, abandoned because of some caprice. There are secrets which everybody knows and no-one speaks of.
I exclaim against the laws which throw the whole weight of the yoke on the weaker shoulders, and force women, when they claim protectorship as mothers, to sign a contract, which renders them dependent on the caprice of a tyrant, whom choice or necessity has appointed to reign over them (194, 195). Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
The smart set is/are going to the Caprice restaurant this season.
Meantime we must remark, that the first three of Mr. Campbell's variations are mere caprices of the press; as is Shagspere; or, more probably, this last euphonious variety arose out of the gross clownish pronunciation of the two hiccuping _ "marksmen" _ who rode over to Worcester for the license; and one cannot forbear laughing at the bishop's secretary for having been so misled by two varlets, professedly incapable of signing their own names. Biographical Essays
It was a time of enthusiasms, caprice and reckless technologies. THE BROKEN GOD
They're wearing their long-billed toyo caps and their canvas yachting shoes, they're packing their travelers checks and their Enco maps, they've got their litter bags and their first-aid kits; they are equipped and ready, don't you know, for the caprices of the open road. Another Roadside Attraction
Can anyone play Paganini's violin caprices and do them justice?
Some distinguished geologist has discovered, or thinks he has, some new law of creation by which he can trace the underground currents of water; or some noble noble lord has "patronized" into notice some caprice of an aspiring engineer, and straight-way the kingdom is convulsed with contests to set up or cast down these idols. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles
And, although shunted into the part at short notice, Michael Feast catches Alfred Doolittle's transition from happily drunken dustman to respectable middle-class morality: like his daughter, in fact, he is both victim, and beneficiary, of Higgins's caprice. Pygmalion - review
But that might be less upsetting to witness than the scene here in Addis, where uncomplaining Ethiopians submit humbly to the bitter caprice of clinical selection.
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte

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