It was caprice that took me from the Silvie de Grasse, and put me in her sister-liner. |
Poussin's view of the genre, as a representation modelled on true nature, echoes the meaning of the caprice in at least one form of literature. |
There are vast schemes, abandoned because of some caprice. There are secrets which everybody knows and no-one speaks of. |
If cricket is a game of glorious uncertainties, then its one-day version is sheer caprice. |
To be irrational with your own money may be to be foolhardy, to give in to guilty pleasure, or to wallow in caprice. |
The didacticism of this passage demonstrates that the caprice of nature expresses the narrator's perspective and not the other way around. |