His choice of the Netherlands, however, was not taken on a whim.

Government controlled economic activity became an unemployment mop, activated on ministerial whim.

Money could no longer be printed at will or on a whim.

Ideally he did; but it was just a fleeting expression or whim.

The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.

The whole place proclaimed itself to be the whim of a despot.

To Christophe the remark was nothing but the whim of a moment.

This was no mere passing whim on the part of the emperor.

I don't like the idea of things being changed by a whim.

This tobacco had been a whim of mine in more prosperous times.

Then a whim seized her, and she sat up, grave and eager.

I traveled the world to follow my interests on the slightest whim.

He will be wealthy, and in a position to gratify any whim.

Lots of people have discovered their hidden gifts by following a whim.

It was reopened on a Tudor whim; it closes on Cromwell's command.

He rushed to the whim-room, but found the boy still sleeping soundly.