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That's what I call vacillation, and you ought to be ashamed of it. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Simpkins Plot] Reference
This kind of vacillation and avoidance only feeds those fears. From Wordnik.com. [03/15/2007] Reference
The word “if” in the original passage is only a polite expression and does not denote any kind of vacillation or option. From Wordnik.com. [Let a million mythos bloom!] Reference
If the Governor be weak, this kind of vacillation and hesitation continues throughout his term of office. From Wordnik.com. [Lombard Street : a description of the money market] Reference
Confederate government at Montgomery, its vacillation, 15. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
But the elf-like little creature showed no signs of vacillation. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Forsook vacillation and, spurred by the love of revenge, sheathed. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
But I accounted for the vacillation and distrust of our lamented friend. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Macota's timidity and vacillation were too apparent; but in consequence of. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
Anson has been undeservedly blamed for vacillation and want of promptitude. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference
All such vacillation vanished in the excitement of his taste of Court life. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
Our European allies are respected for indecision and introspective vacillation. From Wordnik.com. [Rory Fitzgerald: Breakfast With the Obamas: The Oil Spill] Reference
Confusion, vacillation, obscurity, uncertainty, are as foreign to his style as to his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859] Reference
By his vacillation he prevented the appointment of an Ambassador to France for four months. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
It has placed me in a most embarrassing position, and has caused general comment of vacillation. From Wordnik.com. [Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him] Reference
The answer to this question is a most painful confession of feebleness, vacillation and dishonor. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Anglica, which the vacillation of these distracted and ruinous times had almost lost and obliterated. From Wordnik.com. [Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain] Reference
The Teuton system may have shortcomings but hesitation and vacillation cannot be numbered among them. From Wordnik.com. [Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben] Reference
Whether the stirrers of the present excitement, which finds vacillation in the Executive and connivance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
The president's three-month search for a Supreme Court justice typifies his tendency toward vacillation. From Wordnik.com. [Decisions, Decisions] Reference
But, with his fatal vacillation, after having entered upon military preparations and committed himself to. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
We must avoid extremes, for vacillation between extremes is inefficient, costly, and destructive of morale. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Even to the last the incurable vacillation of the allied admirals was felt: they suggested a council of war. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference
The feeling of unreality which you have in regard to your consecration may be the result of your vacillation. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
If our Eastern rivers were capable of such vacillation as this, our large cities would go under once or twice a year. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
There was no vacillation or indecision, but a deliberate concentration of all his faculties upon the task set before him. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years in South China The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D.] Reference
It appalled her to see people wrecking their lives by indecision, vacillation, incapacity, by poor judgment and crass stupidity. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
But whenever interference became necessary, it has acted promptly, without undue haste or severity, and also without vacillation. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
Whenever they showed signs of vacillation he would take one of the men by the arm, and lead him into the very thick of the fight. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
There was no vacillation of will, no suspension of judgment, no procrastination that led to harassing controversy over minor details. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
They possess the resolution of the Irish constabulary without the uncomfortable vacillation of Dublin Castle to thwart their efforts. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
And then he wished to confess his fault; but, with his usual vacillation of purpose, he deferred it, till he should see how things went. From Wordnik.com. [Louis' School Days A Story for Boys] Reference
The King's timidity and vacillation were so well known that 'twas impossible not to question his good faith even in this last extremity. From Wordnik.com. [Calvert of Strathore] Reference
A friend of mine who has an advertising agency wanted to secure the business of a prominent manufacturer who was inclined to vacillation. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
In Congress was vacillation, discord, vacuity; while the people were goaded to the absurd charge, that some of its members were traitors!. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
He certainly was putty in the hands of those who wished to destroy the Union, and his vacillation precisely accomplished what they wished. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
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