unsteadfast

Example Sentences

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The glances that he fixed upon me were unsteadfast and wild.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

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

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

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)

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