All 12 Uses of
capricious
in
Les Miserables
- One has one's caprices; I should have liked to last until the dawn, but I know that I shall hardly live three hours.†
Chpt 1.1
- At every backward and forward swing the hideous links emitted a strident sound, which resembled a cry of rage; the little girls were in ecstasies; the setting sun mingled in this joy, and nothing could be more charming than this caprice of chance which had made of a chain of Titans the swing of cherubim.†
Chpt 1.4
- What a solemn thing is this infinity which every man bears within him, and which he measures with despair against the caprices of his brain and the actions of his life!†
Chpt 1.7
- Not an unevenness of the ground, not a caprice in the architecture, not a fold.†
Chpt 2.4
- Bahorel, a man of caprice, was scattered over numerous cafes; the others had habits, he had none.
Chpt 3.4 *caprice = impulsiveness and unpredictability
- Is it not a horrible caprice?†
Chpt 3.5
- It is thus, in fact, that the harsh and capricious jealousy of the flesh awakens in the human heart, and takes possession of it, even without any right.†
Chpt 3.6
- Upon this uneven floor, where the dirt seemed to be fairly incrusted, and which possessed but one virginity, that of the broom, were capriciously grouped constellations of old shoes, socks, and repulsive rags; however, this room had a fireplace, so it was let for forty francs a year.†
Chpt 3.8
- The pavilion, built of stone in the taste of Mansard, wainscoted and furnished in the Watteau style, rocaille on the inside, old-fashioned on the outside, walled in with a triple hedge of flowers, had something discreet, coquettish, and solemn about it, as befits a caprice of love and magistracy.†
Chpt 4.3
- The drum suddenly beat capricious calls, at the command of such or such a Colonel of the National Guard; such and such a captain went into action through inspiration; such and such National Guardsmen fought, "for an idea," and on their own account.†
Chpt 5.1
- On the 6th of June, 1832, a company of the National Guards from the suburbs, commanded by the Captain Fannicot, above mentioned, had itself decimated in the Rue de la Chanvrerie out of caprice and its own good pleasure.†
Chpt 5.1
- The crest of this ridge which determines the division of the waters describes a very capricious line.†
Chpt 5.3
Definition:
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(capricious) impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior