| 1. | A half whimsical thought flashed across the Premier's mind. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 2. | A quavering voice, a whimsical mind. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | "But perhaps he may be a little whimsical in his civilities," replied her uncle. - from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
| 4. | Ichabod became the object of whimsical persecution to Bones and his gang of rough riders. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 5. | Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | "Only one of those whimsical little incidents which will happen when you have four million human beings all jostling each other within the space of a few square miles. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | I mention this incident to illustrate the lack of conventionality and whimsical originality of the man, that stood out no less forcibly in his writings than in his daily life. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 8. | But he could not take root in any of these with chagrin, he found his masters invariably whimsical and irregular, constantly running about the country, or on the look-out for adventure. - from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne |
| 9. | The little god o' the world sticks to the same old way, And is as whimsical as on Creation's day. - from Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |