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Far from the Madding Crowd
- By one of those whimsical coincidences in which Nature, like a busy mother, seems to spare a moment from her unremitting labours to turn and make her children smile, the girl now dropped the cloak, and forth tumbled ropes of black hair over a red jacket.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- So a whimsical fate ordered that her hat should be taken off—veil and all attached—and placed upon his head, Troy tossing his own into a gooseberry bush.†
Chpt 25-27
Definition:
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(whimsical) playful, amusing, or impulsive rather than seriously rational