vagarious

Example Sentences

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It is a troubling state of affairs indeed if the vagarious interests of one federal prosecutor, acting outside of public view, can determine so much about an individual’s future.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2013

Bozzy's vagarious search for a wife, described in the previous volume, has succeeded, and for the moment at least he is well-behaved.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus the two lovers of Melicent foreplanned the future, and did not admit into their accounting vagarious Dame Chance.

From Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship by Cabell, James Branch

This may be a whimsical conclusion to the study of a personality so perplexing and vagarious as Sir John Willison.

From The Masques of Ottawa by Bridle, Augustus

Not a memory had traversed the ground since to blur a detail, though now the adult faculties could apprehend distortion, the beautiful vagarious distortion that can live in a brain over toddling feet.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence