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.
"The Unknown Sea"
Clemence Housman
Ming-shu, you upon whom the duty of regulating my admittedly Vagarious mind devolves, what happened officially on the eleventh day of the Month of Gathering-in?"
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc
In my own case, taking it for what it is worth, I can only wish that the mother's part had been more enduring, not that I regret the effect of my father's influence, but because I think my mother had some qualities from which my best are derived, and which I should like to see completely carried out in the life of a man, while I recognize in a certain Vagarious tendency in my father the probable hereditary basis of the inconstancy of purpose and pursuit, which may not have deprived my life of interest to others, but which has made it comparatively barren of practical result.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman