Both Uses of
capricious
in
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- Ichabod, on the contrary, had to win his way to the heart of a country coquette, beset with a labyrinth of whims and caprices, which were forever presenting new difficulties and impediments; and he had to encounter a host of fearful adversaries of real flesh and blood, the numerous rustic admirers, who beset every portal to her heart, keeping a watchful and angry eye upon each other, but ready to fly out in the common cause against any new competitor.†
- they fluttered, chirping and frolicking from bush to bush, and tree to tree, capricious from the very profusion and variety around them.
*capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
Definition:
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(capricious) impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior