unsteadfast

Example Sentences

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It may be said to pass yawning gulfs ‘on the unsteadfast footing of a spear:’ still it has an actual resting-place and tangible support under it—it is not suspended on nothing.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

Down-streaming light, the hour, the stillness--a soul unsteadfast would have shrunk as from an apparition.

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary

I wanted to breathe the desert’s breath, to drink of its life,—to do it homage and to love it—not for any fleeting beauty, but because my unsteadfast soul found it loveable and strong.

From Lodges in the Wilderness by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

I heard them breathing but a moment since, But now they are gone, being unsteadfast things.

From The Countess Cathleen by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)

The peacock hath an unsteadfast and evil shapen head, as it were the head of a serpent, and with a crest.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert