Both Uses of
whim
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- Had she felt, which she did not, any wish whatever for the married state in the abstract, she could not reasonably have rejected him, being a woman who frequently appealed to her understanding for deliverance from her whims.†
Chpt 19-21 *
- Bathsheba's feeling was always to some extent dependent upon her whim, as is the case with many other women.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(whim) a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation