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  • They will not jeopordize their career's for Obama's whim's.

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  • Fortunately we live near enough to Fowey and du Maurier homeland to nip down on a whim, and so my whim is to be indulged this week, anyone else living within a whim's distance of Oxford could do no better than nip along to hear Justine speak at The Sunday Times Literary Festival this Thursday April 3rd at 8pm.

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  • Fortunately we live near enough to Fowey and du Maurier homeland to nip down on a whim, and so my whim is to be indulged this week, anyone else living within a whim's distance of Oxford could do no better than nip along to hear Justine speak at The Sunday Times Literary Festival this Thursday April 3rd at 8pm.

    Daphne 2008

  • Fortunately we live near enough to Fowey and du Maurier homeland to nip down on a whim, and so my whim is to be indulged this week, anyone else living within a whim's distance of Oxford could do no better than nip along to hear Justine speak at The Sunday Times Literary Festival this Thursday April 3rd at 8pm.

    Daphne 2008

  • When you move randomly at a whim's notice and usually end up tossing care to the wind and heading for the high hills every single time you feel like it .... but .... for some odd reason, you decide to stick it out???

    moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2004

  • Nor shall I complain if you hold roughly in your mind, subject to a whim's reversal, an evening destination to check your hunger.

    Chimney-Pot Papers Fritz August Gottfried Endell 1906

  • Indeed, really, she only stood there, just stood there, evening after evening, just for a whim's sake!

    Hunger Knut Hamsun 1905

  • I was not a fool, to think that she loved me; but she was set to conquer me, and with her there was no price that seemed high when the prize was victory or a whim's fulfilment.

    Simon Dale Anthony Hope 1898

  • Her eyes and brow, still confronting his in a distress of mirth, confessed the whim's forlorn senselessness, while his face returned not the smallest sign of an emotion.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • And the bridles that pulled at them, forcing the poor heads to turn hither and thither, for mere whim's sake, as it seemed (for whatever reason there was for it, they could not find it out) – what

    Parables From Nature 1857

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