And civilisation is merely the expression of life — a variform utterance which includes love, and hunger, and joy, and death.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference

I could sort of slooshy myself making special sort of shooms and govoreeting slovos like 'Dear dead idlewilds, rot not in variform guises' and all that cal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where's the show?] Reference

Vases of Etruscan mould, containing plants of the commonest kind, offer those lines of beauty which the eye delights in following; and variform leaves hanging festooned over them, and shading them if they be of a light colour, with a soft grateful hue, add much to their pleasing effect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828] Reference