The weak, impulsive, ambitious, and yet vacillating Monmouth was by means of Halifax reconciled to his father.
They had gone to pieces, some holding with one side, some with the other, some vacillating between both, changing and rechanging as the balance turned one way or the other.
With all his pleasantness and natural good qualities he was vacillating and weak; if any pressure or difficulty should come into his life, it would be likely for him to be weighed in the balance and found wanting.
He watched them, dazed, saw them ascend a rise, become a vacillating speck in the moonlight, and drop from view in a hollow beyond the rise.
They mounted rapidly over the rise, and became, as the pursued, vacillating specks, and then disappeared in the hollow beyond.
But not so: after a momentary indignation, Sarsfield returns to his duty, and ere long is reconciled with his vain and vacillating chief.
How often experience convinces us that a bold and brazen loudness of tones and roughness of manner cover only a vacillating spirit and irresolute actions!
Honor may take her tones and texture from the prevailing manners and customs of those around us; this renders her vacillating unless allied to virtue, which is the same in both hemispheres, yesterday as to-day.
A vacillating man, no matter what his abilities, is invariably pushed aside in the race of life by one of determined will.
Even as impartial judges, we are properly suspicious of such action, as denoting a vacillating nature, devoid of the true spirit of loyalty, or as indicative of a selfishness that follows its own personal advantage.
It is a mechanism of extreme value, which nature has evolved in us for imposing on our weak and vacillating wills action that makes for a truer good than we should otherwise choose.
The 'Cornwallis Correspondence' gives a vivid picture of the vacillating nobleman, whose feeble attempts to stem the vigorous and unscrupulous polity of Lord Castlereagh might be humorous if they had not done so much harm.
Gifted Hopkins was now in a sad, vacillating condition, between the two great attractions to which he was exposed.
He had been most carefully educated, and was not wanting in ability, but he lacked energy and thoroughness, and was vacillating and undecided at moments when resolute action was called for.
But the policy of the States continued to be vacillating and pusillanimous.
The Persian khans, vacillatingbetween Christianity and Islam, became more and more powerless, until at last, in A.
Being thus committed informally, the usually vacillating advertiser could not well avoid using the pen put into his hand to sign the formal contract laid before him.
It is up to you to bring his vacillating mind to definite conclusions, following your lead.
Look at England herself, vacillating between the game of conciliation and the perils of her unlimited bigotry.
She will repent one day having scorned my friendship, for, if she succeeds in gaining her husband over to an alliance with Russia, I shall be inexorable, and mercilessly trample the whole vacillating and fickle Prussia in the dust.
Providence has intrusted to you; follow your noble and sacred vocation; be the genius of Prussia; and impart to the vacillating and timid, firm, manly courage and energetic resolution!
Vacillating and vacant men may seek a new sensation by encouraging a revival of the demoniacal epidemics of heathendom.
But while the policy of the southern Treasury was weak, vacillating and destructive, that of the northern was strong, bold and cautious.
Long vacillating and irresolute, long doubtful of himself and all the world, he was resolved at last, and obstinately bent upon carrying out his resolution.
Although he had, in the first impulse of triumph after receiving his commission, confided fully in the promises of the vacillating Berkeley, yet, on reflection, Bacon did not rely very implicitly upon them.
On Little's entrance the pupil retired front his uphill work, and glowered with vacillating eyes.
Be a man; shake off these miserable trammels; leave that vacillatinggirl to nurse her villain, and marry the one I have chosen for you.
