inconstant
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The Diomede, of fifty guns, and several other vessels, were withdrawn, and Sir James shifted his flag to the Inconstant.
From Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez. Vol II by Ross, John, Sir
Watchful suspect is kindled with despair, Inconstant hope is often drown’d in fears; What folly hurts not, fortune can repair, And misery doth swim in seas of tears.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 486, April 23, 1831 by Various
As a vulture rapacious, in falsehood a fox, Inconstant as waves, and unfeeling as rocks, As a tiger ferocious, perverse as a hog, In mischief an ape, and in fawning a dog.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan
BIFLINDI, the Inconstant: from bif, motion; and lyndi, disposition, mind.
From The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Saemund Sigfusson
Or the two following, the Inconstant Man, and Lycas or the Firm Man: 'Such a man seems really to possess more than one character.
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3) Essay 1: Vauvenargues by Morley, John
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