Adjective : a pixyish, whimsical fellow. ,Her writing showed whimsical notions of human behavior. ,He was too whimsical with regard to his work. From Dictionary.com.
Henry and Daisy have been to see the lying in state, as lying stark and dead is called whimsically, of the Duke of Sussex. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning]
"Neither do I," admitted Betty, adding whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
"What will you have, Mollie?" she asked whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
"But please don't do it again," she added whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
"Well, you can't blame 'em," Allen retorted whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
Wananda opened her eyes, turned to me, smiling whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
"I have taken heaps of time," smiled the woman whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
"We were lucky," said Orville Wright, whimsically, on Monday. From Wordnik.com. [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference
He looked at me rather whimsically, and we both shared a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis] Reference
"I think it will be good for her," said the principal whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Rosemary] Reference
"As thick as merlasses in Jinuary," drawled Sile Crane whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Rival Pitchers of Oakdale] Reference
"Not at all," he responded whimsically, his eyes devouring her face. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
"I can wade," he replied whimsically, looking down at his long legs. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power] Reference
To her surprise his furrowed brows relaxed and he smiled whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
"It will give Monkshaven something to talk about, anyway" -- whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
"And the Markovians do this, in obedience to you?" said Cameron whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Cubs of the Wolf] Reference
"The bumps didn't worry me at all," she confessed, as she smiled whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
"You come wonderfully close on my Frankfort story," said M'Iver, whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
His companion lifted his eyebrows whimsically and nipped the end from a cigar. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
"Still I might have picked out a more appropriate place," said Allen whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
He glanced down whimsically at his useless legs, cloaked beneath the inevitable rug. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Well, there is no harm in a Premier beginning to be whimsically athletic near fifty. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
Unless, "he added, whimsically," unless you should decide to go as a Red Cross nurse. From Wordnik.com. [Lucile Triumphant] Reference
It is not easy to imagine any thing more whimsically grotesque than the female Falstaff. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
Marjorie's tongue all at once loosened; she chattered whimsically, like an excited child. From Wordnik.com. [Four Days The Story of a War Marriage] Reference
"Is this home-coming?" she said whimsically, forcing a smile, but she was glad to see it. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
"How dare ugly little brown bears come out in the white glitter," she muttered, whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
"I'm going to write to the boys, and say we don't need them any more," she added whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Or, doing their bit for the soldier boys] Reference
"By the way, you didn't happen to be here half a century ago, did you?" he asked whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
"Maybe that's the reason I didn't get along with Aunt Katherine," answered Peggy whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference
New parents are sometimes asked whimsically what they want for their children when they grow up. From Wordnik.com. [Peace of Mind: The Battle] Reference
"You have not liked him since you found that he took that snapshot of me," she said whimsically. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
"Man!" said the Paymaster in English, looking whimsically at this childish expression of surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
On the back the normal folderol of praise but whimsically listed under, 'Contemptible Compliments'. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Jones: Johannes Cabal: The Detective] Reference
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