They were armed not by caprice but by a well thought out plan. From LearnThat.org.
The husband's faithlessness is called a caprice, an adventure, a craving or madness of the senses. From Wordnik.com. [His Excellency the Minister] Reference
The things we face are evil incarnate, and well, the kind of caprice evident during the hunt the other night could get you all killed. From Wordnik.com. [Child Of The Hunt]
Was there so much as a fault, a "caprice," he could have dispensed with?. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
In the same vein, full of a diaphanous gaiety light as the flutter of dragon-fly wings, is that "caprice" in his Fêtes Galantes entitled. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
His colleagues call it caprice. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » Maliki Continues Moving Against Former U.S. Allies] Reference
"caprice" and produces terror in those bending to his will (210, 167). From Wordnik.com. [Romantic Fear] Reference
Sacrifice his artistic leanings to popular caprice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Perhaps I was a fool, or the victim of some supernatural caprice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Vaillance de Blacas, prudence de Pontevez, caprice de Corandeuil. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Benevolence in this woman amounted to nothing higher than a caprice. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
A nothing, a word; sometimes the caprice of a journalist out of work. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The best guide-books are caprice and fantasy, if you are hot pressed for time. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
But this caprice of glory shall not derange my fixed designs; this city shall not fall yet. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The word of so grave an office mentioned as a "whim," "a caprice," went down hard with him. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
It will be better than a caprice, it will be something pure that you can keep in your heart. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
On the other hand, how could I conceive of inconstancy or of caprice in that woman, as I knew her?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But by some violent caprice, a calling card was left at the blast's perimeter-the partial truck chassis. From Wordnik.com. [A Break In The Blast] Reference
The Sentimental Journey is the record of a sentimental experience, guided by the caprice of a whimsical will. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
But these amiable women had one unfortunate caprice, not uncommon at this day among Parisians of their position. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She never could have imagined the infallible taste which he exercised naturally in joyful caprice and in familiar fantasy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Lamplighter was not to be cast away by every caprice of the public mind which changed the political aspect of the town council. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Ago] Reference
Do you think I can ever forget that but for her caprice and self-will you would never have had those years of suffering, Floyd?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
Here is a direct following of the Lorenzo episode; caprice rules his behavior toward an inferior, who is modest in his request. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
I threw myself down at her feet, and drawing out my hairpins gave myself up entirely to the gratification of her latest caprice. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
So it happens that the unfortunate consuls who are stowed away in the obscurer establishments, are apt to suffer from their caprice. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
Desvarennes had said "No," and Micheline came and said "Yes," the hitherto resolute will became subordinate to the caprice of a child. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
You, who no longer love her, who took her out of caprice, as you have taken others, you have destroyed all of my dreams for the future. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But a philosopher united by a caprice of nature to an artist, and by that of fortune and of education to a worldly man and a traveller. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Historical accident, blind impulse and caprice, cannot serve as guides for a rational creature seeking to live, along with others, a rational life. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
No! never will I believe that he will now reward my friendship with caprice, with desertion, with ingratitude so cruel, so cutting, so unlooked for!. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
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