That author used one vagary after another in the story. From LearnThat.org.
Noun, : the vagaries of weather; the vagaries of the economic scene. From Dictionary.com.
He can call them “simple” tests, but this kind of vagary is far from simple to implement into a budget. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Ignatieff Takes That Paintbrush Into The Corner « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
Nobody seems interested in destroying, once and for all, the vicious circle in which this "vagary" of international fraud entraps us. From Wordnik.com. [January 2006] Reference
The exceptional: the flux and vagary of all things. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
After all, what is destiny but the vagary of chance?. From Wordnik.com. [Plasma Monster]
"Tommyrot," fumed her guide, nonplussed at this new vagary. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
That's just a vagary of not having a straight popular vote. From Wordnik.com. [the iron ladies] Reference
This triangle, by a vagary, now proved to be a crucial point. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
She could not hope for a second escape through a drunken vagary. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
It is a vagary, and has appealed to some Anglo-Saxon travellers, but. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
It seemed, to her inexperience, a comical vagary of the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference
Through some vagary of her brain, Mildred imagined she wanted to go to. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm] Reference
MOOS: Protect us from John McCain's chart which sounds vagary obscene. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 20, 2008] Reference
Surely M. du Chaillu must have been deceived by some vagary of nature. From Wordnik.com. [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference
The storm still raged, and she thought it was a vagary of the lightning. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
Putting a stop to such vagary is what the new definitions are all about. From Wordnik.com. [The Fate of the Kilo Weighs Heavily on the Minds of Metrologists] Reference
Very orderly, irresistible without vagary, now became the fire's progress. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
The whole structure is not so much the vagary of an architect as the sport of. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Cruel as it may seem, I must yet notice another and a peculiar vagary of his malady. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
I cannot tell you how full of vagary the correspondence we have fallen into seems to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
"I should have thought your shape would beer -- exactly right for any vagary of fashion.". From Wordnik.com. [Tulips For Augusta]
Obama offers the best chance today for change, and I'm not using the word as a deliberate vagary. From Wordnik.com. [Slay That Green Dragon] Reference
His surname changes to Peyten and then Peyton, which is the vagary of the census-taker, not John. From Wordnik.com. [John] Reference
I have already anticipated your story, and represented it as the vagary of a disordered intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
It would be set down as the vagary of a disordered brain; nobody would entertain it for an instant. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 1] Reference
At twenty years of age he was himself shut up six weeks in a madhouse, his imagination in a vagary. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference
In Adorno, what for Hegel was consciousness without content has become "nonconceptual vagary" (68). From Wordnik.com. [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference
Every vagary of sunlight dappling across her sumptuous breasts registered spiky and vibrant on his retina. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
It was worth all the fatigue, cold, and bruises, for that appallingly illogical cloud cap took a new vagary. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Tenderfoot] Reference
Perhaps the reader will cast it aside at once as a worthless fiction, -- the idle vagary of an excited brain. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The children finally accepted Brownie's one vagary, and when they were driving home among other vehicles, and. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference
He had but to pretend to be greatly grieved at his vagary, to have the act lauded as an instance of Roman virtue. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
They had to wait suspended until a vagary of the weather caused a new layer of clouds to form beneath them, hiding the ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
This is in part a social and medical phenomenon, but it is also the result of linguistic vagary attached to emotional vagary. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon] Reference
This isn't the private vagary of an insubordinate firm. From Wordnik.com. [JPost.com - Front Page] Reference
They were both roused from their vagary by the voice of General Triscoe. From Wordnik.com. [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference
One must appreciate that the concept of DOSHA STHAANAS is not a vagary of thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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