He seems to have vacillated for, in July 1703, there was circulated a paper purporting to confirm the jubilation of the members of the Suprema and to commit Froilan's case to Mendoza.
Though Cæsar Borgia for once acted in good faith, the pope vacillated and delayed, and the subject of the military guarantees was attended with great difficulties.
Still Alexander vacillated and hesitated, now giving way to bursts of furious passion, now yielding to immoderate terror; but that vacillation had now to give way.
Carrasco, the captain-general, hesitated and vacillated between the conflicting suggestions.
Many citizens who distrusted Bolivar or were fearful of the final result vacillatedin their allegiance.
Again Hartley vacillated between gratitude and doubt, hating to impose on her what might be the penalty for a moment's too generous impulse.
Edmund, in a tone which vacillated between annoyance and embarrassment.
And he did not go on the next day either, though he had half a mind to do so during the afternoon, and only stayed at home because he vacillated until it was too late to catch the train.
But as to Tifto himself he vacillated much between pity, contempt, and absolute condemnation.
Lord Silverbridge had vacillated between loyalty to his friend and a certain feeling as to the impropriety of such a match for his sister.
The Eastern bishops for the most part vacillated between the two extremes and let themselves be led by Eusebius of Nicomedia.
The Pharisees contradicted and persecuted Him, the Sadducees disregarded Him, and the people vacillated between acclamations and execrations.
Her mind had vacillated like a shuttlecock, but no one had seen the vacillation.
She vacillatedin her mind between condemnation of the cruelty of Mr Whittlestaff and of her own weakness.
Sometimes with dialectic subtlety he turned his examiners to ridicule, at others he vacillated between obduracy and submission.
It vacillatedin a manner which is only partially explicable by the shifting political exigencies of the times so far as we can penetrate them.
They gave up their past life and all their property, and if any vacillated in offering his fortune to the cause, he was looked upon with pity and contempt.
Extremes were his delight, and he undulated between Austrian tyranny and democratic licentiousness in politics, just as he vacillated between the darkest bigotry of his church and open infidelity.
For this reason, he was alternately wheedled and cajoled, mocked and threatened, for more than a year; and all the time the pitiable weakling shifted and vacillated in his policy.
Her policy partook of both doubt and fear, and vacillated more than ever.
He vacillated from the emotional business of the moment.
He looked in front of him again and his round eyesvacillated between Richard and Ellen, growing rounder at each roll.
Thinking of this, and of that look upon his child's brows, he almost vacillated again.
He had sinned against her already, in that he had vacillatedand had allowed that handsome but vile and worthless cousin to come near her.
I have nevervacillated in critical moments, never weakly yielded to circumstances.
Rene vacillated for a moment and then intuition vanquished reason.
It now became perplexed, and, by the workings of his features, it would seem that he vacillated in his opinions.
Between the Feuillants and the Jacobins, the independents, incapable of keeping to any fixed programme, vacillated sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left.
Austria, which had vacillated and delayed--for she was informed of the schemes of the royalists, and hoped that if Louis XVIII.
Raymond had evidently vacillated during his journey, and irresolution was marked in every gesture as we entered Perdita's cottage.
Yet when he returned thence, and first appeared in public life in England, her love did not purchase his, which then vacillated between Perdita and a crown.
From an agony of foreboding he vacillatedto an ecstasy of defeat.
He vacillated a moment suspiciously, wondering whether to accept the situation, but, the shyster prevailing, he turned on his heel and went up the stairs.
During all this time, opinionvacillated between Arianism on the one hand and Sabellianism on the other.
The councils vacillated to and fro during three hundred years, gradually tending towards the present Church doctrine of the Trinity; thus,— 1.
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