All 6 Uses of
whimsical
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story.†
Chpt 2 *whimsical = playful, amusing, or impulsive rather than seriously rational
- Between the post were ranged the milchers, each exhibiting herself at the present moment to a whimsical eye in the rear as a circle on two stalks, down the centre of which a switch moved pendulum-wise; while the sun, lowering itself behind this patient row, threw their shadows accurately inwards upon the wall.†
Chpt 3
- In the midst of these whimsical fancies she heard a new strange sound among the leaves.†
Chpt 5
- Reason had had nothing to do with his whimsical conversion, which was perhaps the mere freak of a careless man in search of a new sensation, and temporarily impressed by his mother's death.†
Chpt 6
- To perfect the ballads was now her whimsical desire.†
Chpt 6
- "If I were inclined to joke, I should say, How much this seems like Paradise!" he remarked whimsically, looking at her with an inclined head.†
Chpt 6whimsically = in a way that is playful, amusing, or impulsive rather than seriously rational