unsteadfast

Example Sentences

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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

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)

To pass along the trunk, rendered slippery by the wet and unsteadfast by the wind, was imminently dangerous.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

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)

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