All 8 Uses of
capricious
in
The Three Musketeers
- But, it is well known, what strikes the capricious mind of the poet is not always what affects the mass of readers.†
Chpt A.P.capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- We must confess these three strange names struck us; and it immediately occurred to us that they were but pseudonyms, under which d'Artagnan had disguised names perhaps illustrious, or else that the bearers of these borrowed names had themselves chosen them on the day in which, from caprice, discontent, or want of fortune, they had donned the simple Musketeer's uniform.†
Chpt A.P.caprice = impulsiveness or unpredictability
- There are in affluence a crowd of aristocratic cares and caprices which are highly becoming to beauty.†
Chpt 11.caprices = instances of impulsiveness or unpredictability
- The favorite of two kings, immensely rich, all-powerful in a kingdom which he disordered at his fancy and calmed again at his caprice, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, had lived one of those fabulous existences which survive, in the course of centuries, to astonish posterity.†
Chpt 12.caprice = impulsiveness or unpredictability
- Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste.†
Chpt 15.capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- This idea soon became so insupportable to her that at the risk of whatever terrible consequences might result to herself from it, she implored the captain to put her on shore; but the captain, eager to escape from his false position—placed between French and English cruisers, like the bat between the mice and the birds—was in great haste to regain England, and positively refused to obey what he took for a woman's caprice, promising his passenger, who had been particularly recommended to him by the cardinal, to land her, if the sea and the French permitted him, at one of the ports of Brittany, either at Lorient or Brest.†
Chpt 49.caprice = impulsiveness or unpredictability
- There fermented in that sublimated brain plans so vast, projects so tumultuous, that there remained no room for any capricious or material love—that sentiment which is fed by leisure and grows with corruption.†
Chpt 56.capricious = impulsive or unpredictable
- ...he who, to satisfy a caprice of his corrupt heart, is about to make England shed so much blood,
Chpt 57. *caprice = whim (impulse)
Definition:
impulsive or unpredictable or tending to make sudden changes -- especially impulsive behavior