It came from long brooding on the changefulness of human fortune, of fate and chance, and the folly of counting on anything beyond the moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Praise Singer]

Again, while he has the utmost of moral stability and constancy, and also great firmness of intellectual adhesion to main principles, there is in him a certain minor changefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference

Our ville, so important to us, has scarcely an existence for our home government, and administrative changes there float over us like clouds of heaven, without touching us in their changefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference

There Thingol Greycloak of Doriath was their king, and in the long twilight their tongue had changed with the changefulness of mortal lands and had become far estranged from the speech of the Eldar from beyond the Sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

With a warm heart, he had more than the changefulness of the Celtic temperament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poets of the South] Reference

And we have neither the changefulness nor the vast extent of the sunset colouring.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty] Reference

It is pleasant to me to find something that has survived the changefulness of Time.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot] Reference

Origen: Of the changefulness of the sinner it is said, "The fool changes as the moon.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew] Reference

But Jericho, which is interpreted ` the moon, 'denotes the infirmity of our changefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew] Reference

At such moments the countenance of the Trapper was as facile in the changefulness of its expression as that of a child.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holiday Tales Christmas in the Adirondacks] Reference

I complained of a wretched changefulness, so that I could not preserve, for any long continuance, the same views of any thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780] Reference

They may then undertake efforts to restrain such changefulness, a topic I explored more fully in my book In Restraint of Trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [LewRockwell.com] Reference

These words made a deep impression upon Alexander, and caused him to meditate upon the uncertainty and changefulness of human affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Lives Volume III.] Reference

But the longer he looked, the more he found himself attracted by the rich changefulness of expression on a countenance usually very still.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. George and St. Michael Volume II] Reference

He understood human nature, its credulities and incredulities, its superstitions, tastes, changefulness, and love of display and excitement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference

He smoked and pondered until the storm passed, and, with the changefulness of a poet's muse, a full moon flooded the island in glorious radiance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wings of the Morning] Reference

The measures of spoken verse are elastic and full of changefulness, while those of music and the chant maintain a very decided constancy of relations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.] Reference

That metaphor speaks to us of the continual changefulness of our mortal condition; it speaks to us, also, of the effort and the weariness which often attend it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference

Her father returns to his original purpose, with the strange mixture of tenacity and capricious changefulness that marks his character, and again attempts, by demanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of David As Reflected in His Psalms] Reference

And from the three long uncurtained windows the beautiful stretch of meadow and moorland, the far violet of the hills, and the unchanging changefulness of cloud and sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Railway Children] Reference

Note likewise, in the first scene of the second act of the same play, the changefulness of Hermione's mood with regard to her boy, as indicative of her condition at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare] Reference

I content myself with philosophical rules and mathematical formulae, when she, whose changefulness I may find greater than the winds that sigh over me, now loves me no longer?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A journey in other worlds A romance of the future] Reference

With that swift changefulness that was distinctive of her nature, she sought to make amends as best she could, although she understood that the task was well-nigh a hopeless one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Making People Happy] Reference

We tried after that the vine-land of Burgundy, where Gilbert told me what he has repeated in "Round my House": "There is no water, with its pleasant life and changefulness, here.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894] Reference

Already nature, her largeness, her openness, her loveliness, her changefulness, her oneness in change, had begun to heal the child's heart, and comfort him in his disappointment with his kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Gibbie] Reference

And the surprises there are in man, his complexity, his variancy, were symptomatic of the changefulness, the confusion, the surprises, of the earth under one's feet, of the whole material world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance] Reference

A phase of beauty wholly different from that of the day-time smites the sense; and the monotony of feature is forgiven to the changefulness of expression, and to the experience of a new delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient Egypt] Reference

As he gazes up into the solemn depths, the immensity and peace of the steadfast sky seems to help him to rise above the narrow limits and changefulness of earth, and a great trust floods his soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference

When they spoke their faces showed a certain changefulness that denoted intelligence, but never lost the look of force, of an almost tense masculinity ready to battle, perpetually alive to hold its own.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spirit in Prison] Reference

It is said that the Duchess also, towards the close of her earthly pilgrimage, felt the influence of divine grace, and turned heavenwards her gaze, wearied with the changefulness of all sublunary things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2)] Reference

It is the very vagueness, changefulness, and dreamlike indistinctness of these feelings which cause their charm; they harmonise with the haziness of our beliefs and seem to make our very doubts melodious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series] Reference

It was there that I saw nature in all her moods, and felt that to each my own moods responded; there that despondency, imagining her monotony of woe, was confuted by the saving changefulness of created things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia Diffidentis] Reference

Remember that every lip which united in that lightly made vow drew its last breath in the wilderness, because of disobedience, and the burst of homage becomes a sad witness to human weakness and changefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference

It seemed that plays, even what some considered a languid old play about toffs, could, if beautifully made and performed, stir people to battle with their own ideas and circumstances in a spirit of changefulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Let us just consider the nature of this foundation, its want of trustworthiness, its changefulness, and we shall soon feel what a dangerous edifice War is, how easily it may fall to pieces and bury us in its ruins.    From Wordnik.com.  [On War — Volume 1] Reference

See below, Great Men; changefulness, wretched, iii.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.] Reference