inconstant affections. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an inconstant friend. From Dictionary.com.
I know, at last, what the poet meant by that expression, though the word inconstant strikes me as hardly forcible enough. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
They are always called inconstant: but nothing in them changes. From Wordnik.com. [Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House] Reference
He was called inconstant, because the relative position in which he stood to the contending factions was perpetually varying. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
Wherefore to be inconstant is no care. From Wordnik.com. [A Few Figs from Thistles] Reference
And yet men are called inconstant!. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
A double minded man is inconstant in all his ways. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 66: James The Challoner Revision] Reference
Put not thy faith in wind, variable and inconstant. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere, Personal Recollections] Reference
Must of all things most strangely inconstant prove. From Wordnik.com. [English literary criticism] Reference
A looker-on calls him inconstant, uncertain, capricious. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Perhaps, though, I wrong her when I call her inconstant. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
"Captain Calderon is inconstant," laughed another officer. From Wordnik.com. [Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser A Brave Fight Against Odds] Reference
By their very nature, matters of state are fluid and inconstant. From Wordnik.com. [The War In the Words of the Dead] Reference
Does he seem so light and inconstant that he needs some discipline?. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8] Reference
Numidian, the proud and desultory Spaniard, the brave but inconstant. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
But his mind was of a peculiar cast, and his temper most inconstant. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
AYMESTRY LIMESTONE, an inconstant limestone which occurs locally in the. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
Spanish gallant to somebody's inconstant wife, and the carver spoke of them. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
But the winds were inconstant and drifting clouds occasionally obscured the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutineers] Reference
The only lucid intervals which she had were in the presence of her inconstant lover. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
'Weak woman, -- inconstant woman;' they have made the wind a type of her fickleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
"Mr. Plovins, I will say you are very -- very inconstant, to be absent all day, thus.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
That reminds me I never go to see him now; I hope I am not inconstant to my old friends. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
London, and Madeira, and she was as faithful in friendship as she was inconstant in love. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And the writer insists that like all women she was inconstant, since he kissed her the next night. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4] Reference
Government, the action of that Empire in performing treaty stipulations is inconstant and capricious. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
The artist, I fancy, was merely a wild, reckless, inconstant sort of chap who did not regard the simple. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
The nature of the young child, taking its colour from its surroundings, is sensitive, mobile, and inconstant. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
For the heart of a bad man is faithless, unprincipled, inconstant: now overpowered by one impression, now by another. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Sayings of Epictetus] Reference
The disposition of my countrie men, is more inconstant then I would wish: which we haue felt, to our great losse and decaie. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
But because the bodies of the other Metals are inconstant, the Tincture cannot remain with those inconstant bodies, but must depart. From Wordnik.com. [Of Natural and Supernatural Things Also of the first Tincture, Root, and Spirit of Metals and Minerals, how the same are Conceived, Generated, Brought forth, Changed, and Augmented.] Reference
Much like someone who returns to a spurned lover, labor will know the constant anxiety associated with loyalty to an inconstant lover. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Elk: Obama-AFL-CIO Lovefest: Once Again, Labor Hopes President Will Prove Loyalty] Reference
Athenians, accused of scoffing at his country and of insulting the people, to-day he wishes to reply and regain for himself the inconstant. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
In all these minerals abound, but the irregular and inconstant labor of some of the mines does not permit us to consider them as in action. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
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