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Definition
a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation
- " "Don't I indulge your every whim?" he asked.Chapters 44-45 (20% in)
- But Dan decided, on a whim, to go rob the farmer, if he had anything worth being robbed of.Chapters 68-69 (40% in)
- He was the kind of boy she would have given anything to raise, and here, for a romantic whim, Gus had seen to it that father and son were separated.Chapters 101-102 (33% in)
There are no more uses of "whim" in Lonesome Dove.
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