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

There are certain stars that have such irregular, uncertain, vagarious ways that they were called vagabonds, or planets, by the early astronomers.

From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White

She had a slow, vagarious notion that all of the cots were tilted, so that they appeared each on a cross, these mothers.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie

Mr. Robbins has laughed at our solicitude; he tells us that these are the vagarious fancies and exuberant whims of youth and that they will duly die out.

From The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice by Field, Eugene