But even a casual student of Arab history can quote too many examples of Bedouin fickleness for one to credit the legends with their face value. From Wordnik.com. [The Lesson of Iraq] Reference
One cause of the change was, no doubt, what is commonly called the fickleness of the multitude, but what seems to us to be merely the general law of human nature. From Wordnik.com. [Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)] Reference
Can you imagine this kind of fickleness in our foriegn policy? joe. From Wordnik.com. [McAuliffe debunks AP report] Reference
Subsequently they soon changed with the fickleness which is equally characteristic of Celts. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
California never cornered the market on fickleness. From Wordnik.com. [Dawnism In California] Reference
England is not the only spot famed for fickleness of atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
In the original text it really shows female fickleness, and justifies its title. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Fortune's fickleness is proverbial and has received frequent literary treatment. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Somewhat nettled she showed displeasure, charged him with the fickleness of satiation. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
In other parts of the world, crumbling mansions attest to the fickleness of oil wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Welcome To Paradise] Reference
As any remarkable instance of fickleness we should certainly not be disposed to cite the case. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
Let us all avoid fickleness, however, -- the doing a little of this and of that: it is poor economy. From Wordnik.com. [Hold Up Your Heads, Girls! : Helps for Girls, in School and Out] Reference
I don't have any illusions about the fickleness of the Telly fans, but for a day or two I'll be on top. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenary] Reference
This was indeed moral courage, and not weak changeableness or fickleness, because it had a noble object. From Wordnik.com. [Amos Huntingdon] Reference
The last two lines suggest another reason for the fickleness, as well as for the insatiability of the poet's love. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Falsehood and fickleness in friendship result from its being built upon merely selfish or circumstantial foundations. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
We were getting older and changing, but our gods remained the same, constant in their fickleness or in their constancy. From Wordnik.com. [Levi Johnston, Bristol Palin and predictable news] Reference
Fashion, or criticism, or temporary weariness, or fickleness of taste, leads us off; and we have to begin our work all over. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
I hope you will attribute my sudden departure from Vibo, whither I had asked you come, to my unhappiness rather than to fickleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order] Reference
The transient favor of chance did not dazzle him; on the contrary, apprehending his fickleness, he never again ventured any big sum. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919] Reference
It's a good guess that the current media darlings, Obama and John McCain, will experience the fickleness of the press before too long. From Wordnik.com. [A Perennial Press Opera] Reference
Olafsson, the glorious hero, still leaves something of lightness, of fickleness, as compared both with the intensity of the passion of. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
Again she returned to New-Orleans, full of horror of Red Republicanism and Socialism, and with disgust for the fickleness of the French. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
And to be encountered, was the odium of changing one's religious opinions, the charge of fickleness, and the consequent loss of reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Daughters of the Cross: or Woman's Mission] Reference
Vanity, frivolity, and fickleness die within them; and they grow to be humble and courageous, disinterested and laborious, strong and persevering. From Wordnik.com. [Education and the Higher Life] Reference
Miltiades has been imputed to the vices of the Athenians and their democracy -- it has been cited in proof partly of their fickleness, partly of their ingratitude. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
We sometimes wonder to find a friend cold and distant to us, and perhaps we moralize on the fickleness and inconstancy of men, but the reason may be to seek in ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
The Hebrews had as one of their gods, Yahveh, whom they endowed with their qualities; qualities inherent in a primitive people: jealousy and might, trickery and fickleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
The ring presaged the next bride or groom, the darning needle single blessedness to the end, the thimble, many to sew for, or feed, the button, fickleness or disappointment. From Wordnik.com. [Dishes & Beverages of the Old South] Reference
There must be some truth, after all, in the rant of the poets about the heartlessness and fickleness of women, although he had always been used to consider it the merest bosh. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
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