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Definition
a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation
- to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon.4 — The Murders in the Rue Morgue (12% in)
- I have said that the whims of my friend were manifold, and that Je les ménagais:—for this phrase there is no English equivalent.4 — The Murders in the Rue Morgue (48% in)
There are no more uses of "whim" in Selected Tales by Poe.
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