Adjective : a vagarious foreign policy. ,vagarious artists. From Dictionary.com.
This may be a whimsical conclusion to the study of a personality so perplexing and vagarious as Sir John Willison. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
All shared in the toast, taking comfort in the fact that, for a change, a powerful force was on their side, mysterious and vagarious as it might be. From Wordnik.com. [Dragons Of A Lost Star]
Mr. Wirgman's mind was somewhat attuned to psychology; but he was cracky and vagarious. From Wordnik.com. [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)] Reference
Thus the two lovers of Melicent foreplanned the future, and did not admit into their accounting vagarious Dame Chance. From Wordnik.com. [Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship] Reference
She had a slow, vagarious notion that all of the cots were tilted, so that they appeared each on a cross, these mothers. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
As a rule, however, the voices seemed vagarious, and he attached no importance to them, except as phenomena which interested him slightly. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I] Reference
There are certain stars that have such irregular, uncertain, vagarious ways that they were called vagabonds, or planets, by the early astronomers. From Wordnik.com. [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference
Mr. Robbins has laughed at our solicitude; he tells us that these are the vagarious fancies and exuberant whims of youth and that they will duly die out. From Wordnik.com. [The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice] Reference
With most primitive people, however, life is so vagarious and starvation so recurrent that they are not apt to retain their pets long enough to establish domesticated forms. From Wordnik.com. [Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization] Reference
One of the most notable personages of that little world, whom I knew in connection with Longfellow, was his brother-in-law, -- Thomas G. Appleton, -- a most distinguished amateur of art; a subtle, if sometimes vagarious, critic, poet, and thinker: the wit to whom most of the clever things said in Boston came naturally in time to be attributed. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I] Reference
One of the most notable personages of that little world, whom I knew in connection with Longfellow, was his brother-in-law, ” Thomas G. Appleton, ” a most distinguished amateur of art; a subtle, if sometimes vagarious, critic, poet, and thinker: the wit to whom most of the clever things said in Boston came naturally in time to be attributed. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist]
In my own case, taking it for what it is worth, I can only wish that the mother's part had been more enduring, not that I regret the effect of my father's influence, but because I think my mother had some qualities from which my best are derived, and which I should like to see completely carried out in the life of a man, while I recognize in a certain vagarious tendency in my father the probable hereditary basis of the inconstancy of purpose and pursuit, which may not have deprived my life of interest to others, but which has made it comparatively barren of practical result. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I] Reference
A symbolic hint of the vagarious bird. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
"I seem vagarious, I know. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
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