| 单词 | fickleness |
| 例句 | Knowing Riddle’s fickleness, he opted not to call him directly to negotiate in private; with only the two of them talking, there would be few consequences to backing out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked with too much rhythm in his step, which suggested to her a certain fickleness of character. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It seemed that with the fickleness of a child’s earache, Barack’s three years of work in the state senate had been all but wiped away. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Readers instead settle for nebulous tales from McCarthy’s early stardom, though he is upfront about his memory’s fickleness. Review | In ‘Brat,’ Andrew McCarthy looks back at his younger self — a sheepish outsider, torn between ambition and art 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z They rebuke the Don for his fickleness when, Daniel Slater's racy new production for Garsington Opera suggests, they themselves are no better than they ought to be. Don Giovanni; La bohème; English Music festival – review 2012-06-09T23:06:16Z "It's just so much harder for Beastie Boys or a Cypress Hill because of what is going on in the music industry and also because of the kind of fickleness in hip hop," she said. Still smokin', Cypress Hill battle to keep fans 2010-04-16T22:32:00Z It mirrors the narrowness of established taste, the fickleness of the art market and the friendships forged among artists that help them survive. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z If Shakespeare’s Prospero and Othello ever found time to hang out, they surely would commiserate about the fickleness of fortune. Two classic Shakespeares, each with ups and downs 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z In an industry that feeds on the new and demands a rapid return, you get the feeling she's not too far from falling foul of pop music fickleness. Sky Ferreira: Teen contender takes her time 2010-08-12T21:22:00Z During a freezing tour of lavish store windows, Ms. Hoffman, 53, an equal-opportunity misanthrope, skewered the holidays, the cruel fickleness of show business and her relentless compulsion to hawk her show. Encounters : In New York City Christmas Comedy Show, Jackie Hoffman Lampoons Holiday 2013-12-18T23:24:10Z It’s a charming representation of a song about fickleness, anchored by Joji, who sings the hook, one of his best, about dystopic nights and the feelings they engender. The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z The trampoline at the centre of the action, on to which the characters climb in turn, rather bluntly embodies the fickleness of fortune. Timon of Athens – review 2012-06-06T13:07:03Z That he stood here at all felt, primarily, like a triumph over the fickleness of trend. Jai Paul Emerges, Tentatively, for His First Headlining Concert 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Delia laments the fickleness of her kids' commitment-phobic generation and recalls the simplicity and joy of finding love with Doc, and the fortitude of their "Greatest Generation." Lewis Black's comedy 'One Slight Hitch' lacks his signature bite 2012-06-18T17:32:03Z Some film-makers have very cannily embraced the fickleness of online culture, turning the manipulation of short attention spans into art. Best short films on the web 2010-12-19T00:04:08Z That seemed a missed opportunity, given the fickleness of fashion. On the Runway Blog: Really, We're Just Here to See Katie 2012-09-12T17:22:18Z Here, as in “In Tandem,” a chain of duets in which one partner replaces another suggests the fickleness of love. Dance Review: Works by Peter Quanz and Jodie Gates at Gotham Dance Festival 2012-06-04T21:19:43Z Yet he was not immune from the fickleness of show business. Peter Gallagher: 'One of the most toxic things in the world is success' 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z The slow, halting melody conveys both his longing and his desolation; a curiously lilting bass line for pizzicato strings seems to mock Ariodante with a hint of Ginevra’s fickleness. Review: Joyce DiDonato Is Wrenching in Handel’s ‘Ariodante’ 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Such rapid expansion has raised the eyebrows of retail analysts, who question whether the Kors label will maintain its cachet or succumb to the fickleness of fashion. DealBook: Michael Kors Stock, Like His Frocks, Is Selling Fast 2011-12-15T12:47:10Z Maybe it’s time for fans like me to quit with the fickleness. Watching the United States Draw with Portugal 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Throughout this autobiography by one of America’s most acclaimed designers of the 1990s, his innovation and confidence are evident, contrasting with an industry that, despite its superficial fickleness, can be deeply resistant to change. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z What Carax is saying about the fickleness of celebrity and the perils of fame seems almost as obvious as "We Love Each Other So Much." Adam Driver is impressive, but can't save Amazon's audacious & sexy rock opera "Annette" 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z He does underestimate fans’ fickleness, though, and the degree to which winning heals their wounds. How owners are ruining the games we love 2012-07-23T19:22:00Z In a town of revolving-door lobbyists, pop-up protesters, here-and-gone congressional interns and the fickleness of the current White House administration, Peaches’ loyalty, built on a promise to Ben, is a marvel of integrity and reliability. One woman has stirred the pot at Ben’s Chili Bowl for 40 years. Her name is Peaches. 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z A shift in her gaze communicates hope and fickleness and loss. Dance Review: The Collaborative Show ?Samhara? at the Joyce Theater 2012-03-21T20:49:44Z The play grapples with such topical concerns as the fickleness of public sentiment, the rhetorical shenanigans of demagogues and the weaponizing of fake news, which Cassius deploys to convert Brutus to the conspirators’ side. Shakespeare and the politics of our age: Trump, 'Julius Caesar' and now 'Richard II' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z There is also an inherent danger in one of Las Vegas’s defining characteristics: its fickleness and adaptability to trends. D.J.’s and Dance Music Are the New Stars in Las Vegas 2012-06-11T21:57:39Z Still, the category this year also underlined the fickleness of the smaller jury of professionals who make all the nominations. Perspective | Hey, Tony Awards, lighten up! You should give more prizes to the funny stuff. 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z It was a stark reminder of how different life is in the West and the power and fickleness of Mother Nature. Closer by the dozen in Bigfork, Montana 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Your tolerance for such fickleness may correspond to your patience when traveling to foreign lands, even if they’re situated north on 14 Street. 3 Salsas shows off its eccentricities with Mexican homestyle cooking 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Khan made his name playing a romantic hero, an actor who defined love - its language, fickleness and the anxieties that come with it - for an entire generation. Shah Rukh Khan's Pathaan: Bollywood's 'king of hearts' aims for epic comeback 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Fast forward four years and they are the biggest losers from Sunday's election, underscoring the fickleness of Italy's voters and the rapid rises and falls of its politicians. Italy's election humbles former populist heroes Salvini and Di Maio 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z But then the fickleness of our attention span kicks in. Opinion | Kim and Pete, or Vladimir and Volodymyr? 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z James Madison saw those provisions as “a necessary fence” against the “fickleness and passion” of the House of Representatives. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z But unlike freestyle skier Eileen Gu, who has charmed Chinese audiences, the case of Zhu Yi has highlighted the fickleness of the nation’s fans. Chinese social media savages California-born skater Zhu Yi over competition falls 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Now, the fickleness of the supply chain failures may be turning on him. 'Upside down again': Omicron surge roils U.S. small businesses 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Which gave her time to ponder the fickleness of fate. Typhoons, wildfires, missiles: Teen flies solo round world 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z Rich Anderson, a veteran Republican state delegate from Prince William County who was tossed out of office in the 2017 blue wave, knows the fickleness of politics only too well. Virginia Republicans rise from the ashes while Democrats ponder what went wrong 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z The desolation left by fame’s fickleness struck a deep chord. Review: Jennifer Holliday, vulnerable and resplendent, shines at the Wallis 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z James Madison viewed the chamber as a guard against the public’s “fickleness and passion,” and George Washington legendarily told Thomas Jefferson that the Senate was the saucer to cool the hot tea of public debate. Perspective | Biden loves the Senate. It won’t love him back. 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z Its relative lack of commercial success may have had more to do with the fickleness of the mainstream pop market than its combination of shimmering synths, stadium rock guitar riff and big chorus. Kylie's 30 greatest singles – ranked! 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z For example, ending the filibuster would not end the Senate’s ability to serve, in James Madison’s words, as a “necessary fence” against the “fickleness and passion” of the public and the House of Representatives. Opinion | It’s beyond time to retire the filibuster 2020-09-07T04:00:00Z But its slip in market share in comparison with other retailers reveals an unexpected fickleness in consumer habits. Amazon’s virus stumbles have been a boon for Walmart and Target 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z That rough, enriched by whatever mist and rain might goad it, seems to crave a role here, perhaps steeped in fickleness. Tiger Woods returns for the PGA Championship at Harding Park, a course with bite by the bay 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z There were numerous attempts at releasing new songs, but the fickleness of the music industry coupled with Rhodes’ apprehension led to an interminable drought between releases. Emitt Rhodes, a one-man 1970s cult band from Hawthorne, dies at 70 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z As well as music industry fickleness, he says, there is a lack of coordination and teamwork from grime and rap artists themselves, especially as success atomises them ever further. Wiley on his final album: 'I need to not let grime die on the way out' 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z The veteran democratic socialist possessed a rare quality for a political candidate in this age of Trumpian fickleness. Pragmatism beats consistency: Why Democrats picked Joe Biden over Bernie Sanders 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z But local officials acknowledge a need for innovative approaches to the lakes’ increasing fickleness. High water wreaks havoc on Great Lakes, swamping communities 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z But local officials acknowledge a need for innovative approaches to the lakes’ increasing fickleness. High water wreaks havoc on Great Lakes, swamping communities 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Most of us would hate it — the loss of privacy, the fickleness of it — even as we’re drawn to the people on which the sun shines brightest. Chris Erskine: Lunch (and a selfie) with legend Angie Dickinson 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Fruits and vegetables are the best proof of that fickleness. Can Babies Learn to Love Vegetables? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Perhaps Donald Trump's fickleness has changed what voters look for in a candidate. Pragmatism beats consistency: Why Democrats picked Joe Biden over Bernie Sanders 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z To critics, his shifting defenses of his decision are reminders of his fickleness. Trump’s Abrupt Shifts in Middle East Unnerve U.S. Allies 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z When Paul then astutely notes that his fondness for either apples or oranges varies depending on the day, that’s a funny, pointed metaphor for the fickleness of the American electorate. Ryan Murphy’s Netflix series The Politician pairs perfectly with Election 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z These rom-coms embrace fickleness, indecision, doubt — an appealing angle for contemporary viewers, especially in the current climate. Romantic comedies like 'Younger' leave 'happily ever after' at the altar 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z It retold of golf’s mad fickleness in that it happened 12 months after — oh, gosh — an Irish golfer wept in a Scottish car park. Ireland’s Shane Lowry wins British Open in tournament’s return to Northern Ireland 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z If there's an alternative narrative, it involves transformation—he matures, becomes more like Rafa, and sheds the fickleness of youth in order to reach the zenith. Nick Kyrgios could become the most hated athlete in the world - Golf Digest 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z Impossible to raise funds, trapped by the fickleness of international finance, governments are forced to make deep cuts in social spending. The U.S. 12-step method to conduct regime change 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Perhaps most shocking to some Republicans may be the fickleness of a news media horde that used to pursue them and hang on to their every observation. ‘You Control Nothing’: House Republicans Brace for Life in the Minority 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Actor Ken Berry, who opens in the romantic musical "I Do! I Do!" at the Grand Dinner Theatre in Anaheim today, was reflecting recently upon the fickleness of the entertainment industry. Actor Ken Berry comes full circle in 1986 interview 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z The first challenge is overcoming the fickleness of microbes: less than one per cent of them can be isolated and grown in a petri dish. What Termites Can Teach Us 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z I, for one, welcome new features that allow me to measure the sad fickleness of my attention. Perspective | Silicon Valley's attempts to self-police are anti-democratic. They're also not new. 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z In particular, the fickleness of the weather prompted a move from September to June. Excerpts from recent South Dakota editorials 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Though critical of the fickleness of U.S. immigration policy, Corchado also touches on the inconsistencies of Mexico — a nation where family is revered yet bigamy thrives, and where corruption thwarts investment. Review | A personal perspective on Mexico’s mass exodus to the United States 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Considering the notorious fickleness of the American voter, this is a big ask. Care about kids in cages? Then it’s time to break the Republican grip on power 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z He wound up backing off at the left side of the lane and sending up a promising shot that could not seem to help itself from skittering around in fickleness and tantalizing all the spectators. Kansas beats Duke and its Elite Eight demons with an overtime classic 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Some industry analysts seemed exasperated with the fickleness of Wall Street in what they believe is a turnaround story. Target boosts its minimum wage. Its remake is accelerating, at a cost 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z What does yesterday’s market downturn say about the fickleness of market psychology and how people react when they perceive a threat to their wealth? How to Bear a Bull Market: The Psychology of Volatile Securities Trading 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z Most of us try to lessen the guilt of our fashion fickleness by dropping those barely worn clothes off at a charity shop. Global demand for old clothes declines 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z In his most notable work, “The Art of the Deal,” Trump boasted of his fickleness as a negotiator, describing it as a strategy. Trump the dealmaker comes up short ahead of shutdown 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z On a typical day, the price of a single bitcoin can rise or fall 10 percent or more, the kind of fickleness that would send panic through traditional stock markets. Bitcoin soars above $17,000, boosting worries and a worldwide frenzy 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Now, their 102 wins reside in history’s dustbin, a monument to October’s fickleness. Indians’ wait continues as Yankees complete rally with 5-2 win in Game 5 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The fickleness of the fire left a lucky few wondering how they had been spared in neighborhoods that were largely destroyed. 'How do you put an entire neighborhood back together?' Santa Rosa reels after historic wildfire levels homes 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Much of it is also of high quality, reflecting New York City’s prosperity and its fickleness. Sharpest elbows get the goods at New York Goodwill outlet store 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z As if the fickleness of shoppers were not enough, of course, consumers have finally woken up to the fact that higher inflation means their money spreads more thinly. What Next tells us about shopkeepers' woes - BBC News 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z But in welcoming Mr. Kenny, he cited what he said was an Irish proverb that speaks to the fickleness of human relations. Irish Premier Uses St. Patrick’s Day Ritual to Lecture Trump on Immigration 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But the great prize remains distant for many in a market susceptible to consumer fickleness, nuanced regulatory changes and the whims of tens of thousands of "daigou" shoppers. China e-commerce confusion catches Australian retailers on the hop 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Still, Graffin’s been around the music business long enough to understand its fickleness. Bad Religion's Greg Graffin returns with a folk-minded record 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z We should all be so sanguine when dealing with the fickleness of the world — and capricious employers. ‘My Man Godfrey’: a 1930s rom-com that could’ve been ripped from today’s headlines 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Much has been written about the fickleness of Trump's opinions, and his tendency to be swayed by the last person in the room, and I started to hope that our dear leader might read it.. A Washington Correspondent’s Own Refugee Experience 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Trump’s fickleness, his tendency to embrace a position one day before seeming to abandon it the next, confounds some in his party. Cautious welcome from congressional Republicans to Trump era 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Few politicians are better acquainted than Schwarzenegger with the fickleness of an electorate that propels an outsider with an outsized personality into office. Trump's approach might seem new, but Arnold Schwarzenegger tried it first. It was a disaster. 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z She also warned never to underestimate “the fickleness of the American electorate”. Presidents undoing their predecessor's legacy: an American tradition 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z While Donald Trump’s reality show demeanor was refreshing to many during the campaign, it’s hard to imagine his erratic behavior, emotional fickleness, and lack of focus playing well in moments that demand actual leadership. Tim Ryan Is the Perfect Politician for the Age of Anxiety 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Beno Bryant wishes he had a picture of it; a reminder of the fickleness of fame, a gentle hint of humility in this season of endless possibilities. UW 1991 flashback: Beno Bryant is a man on a mission 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Most importantly, it's one of the last junctures of guaranteed good golf weather before the fickleness of autumn sets in. The five keys to playing golf on Labor Day weekend - Golf Digest 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Vestas understands the fickleness of the renewable energy business. A Danish Wind Turbine Maker Harnesses Data in a Push to Stay Ahead 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Tiwari says he suspects all the fashion dross he surveys reflects the fickleness, and wealth, of Western consumers. Fast-Fashion Cast-Offs Fuel Global Recycling Network 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z We talked to him about wise boss strategies, his fickleness regarding whiskey and more. Housewares Honcho Alberto Alessi on Corkscrews and Cars 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The latest tech company to experience that fickleness is Amazon. Amazon Encounters a Bumpy Road in India 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z New Hampshire voters are noted for their fickleness and propensity for last-minute decisions, however, and Mr Christie may have given them a reason to take another look at the Republican presidential field. US Republican Marco Rubio feels heat in New Hampshire - BBC News 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The market’s fickleness is already hindering start-ups itching to go public. U.S. stocks slide following steep market drop in China 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Song nominees run from Lamar's "Alright," which touches on police brutality, to Swift's tongue-in-cheek celebration of romantic fickleness, "Blank Space." 2016 Grammy Awards: Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift and the Weeknd lead the nominees 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z This human fickleness is hard for a computer algorithm to predict. Spotify Running is a surprisingly reliable music discovery tool 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z In some ways, the cooling passion for Tibetan mastiffs reflects the fickleness of a consuming class that adopts and discards new products with abandon. Once-Prized Tibetan Mastiffs Are Discarded as Fad Ends in China 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The Barclays Center crowd, known for its impassive vibe and general fickleness, was buzzing and reacting to all the action on the court, and the players seemed equally excited. Nets, Playing for a Playoff Spot, Grab a Win 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z That’s despite various potential threats to its dominance — the rise of alternative social networks, a shift from desktop computers to mobile phones and the perpetual technological fickleness of young people. Debunking the Latest Predictions of Facebook’s Demise 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z And none are more bitter, more symbolic of municipal illogic and fickleness, than the announcement, on a snowy morning, that for reasons unfathomable, the rules remain in effect. On Snowy Day, Late Reprieve on Alternate-Side Rules Doesn’t Ease Drivers’ Ire 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Given the fickleness of Altidore's left hamstring — he missed significant playing time in 2011 with a strain to the same muscle — his World Cup appears over. U.S. uses guessing game with Jozy Altidore's injury 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z In their letter to the Guardian newspaper, the academics warn that child protection is too important to be exposed to what they call the "fickleness and failings" of private organisations. Academics warn over child protection 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z It also introduces a few ideas to kick around after the play has ended, particularly by pointing out hypocrisies on both sides of the political field and the fickleness of the electorate. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘A View of the Mountains’ in Long Branch 2014-05-09T23:47:43Z Social networks do need to keep consumer fickleness in mind. Inside Forbes: 9 Trends Journalists Must Know About To Keep Their Careers Going 2013-06-04T13:23:28Z Photograph: Henry Browne/Action Images has in the last few months come to personify the fickleness of sport. Warburton focused on Wales spot 2013-02-18T19:33:19Z In despair I pour another cup of orange juice, muttering about the fickleness of children and the failings of science. Why Are Weather Forecasts Often Wrong? 2013-01-09T12:45:02.393Z Even if you are unaware of this blind spot, others in the company will see your behavior for what it is: favoritism, fickleness, or careless leadership. 6 Signs You're Not Fit to Lead 2012-11-28T14:36:57Z Gateshead's persistence against initially furious opposition to the Angel of the North has been an example of how this can succeed; but beware the fickleness of public opinion. Olympian statues unlikely unless local councils step in 2012-08-23T09:00:00Z It keeps underestimating the game's fickleness, and how the difference between good and bad is so often what Gary Player calls "fractions." By Addressing His Weaknesses, McIlroy Strengthened His Game 2012-08-14T04:00:00Z The apparent fickleness of global corporations makes clear what a tightrope the government is walking as it tries to stabilise a tottering economy. Will the Olympics get the economy growing again? Don't bank on itWill the Olympics get the economy growing again? Don't bank on it 2012-07-28T23:06:40Z But knowing well the fickleness of the people, he is anxious to turn the occasion to account for confirming their feelings and their aims. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z His friends were worn out with his importunities, and, doubtless, disgusted with his fickleness. Curiosities of Human Nature 2012-04-03T02:00:27.167Z The fickleness of sovereigns he had felt, he had in some way offended Elizabeth, and that spiteful woman never him forgave; she cut off his kinsman Essex’s head and stole his books. William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground 2012-03-29T02:00:13.153Z This pope and his predecessors have been often reproached, since the death of Julius II. with a vacillating policy, and an extreme fickleness in their enmities and alliances. The Power Of The Popes 2012-03-27T02:00:20.043Z The sympathy he seeks flies his touch, the objects of his affection sneer at his sublime credulity, his self-reliance is arrogance, his far sight infatuation, and his ready detection of fallacy fickleness and inconsistency. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z His constancy was not obstinacy; his adaptation was not fickleness. Famous American Statesmen 2012-03-01T03:00:26.167Z Rarely has a book had a more propitious introduction to the public; but it was destined to encounter the proverbial fickleness of that public. Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 2012-02-23T03:00:42.347Z Now there is one writer especially who has done much to vindicate the name of Ant. de Dominis from this charge of "fickleness in religious matters." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 103, October 18, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-02-15T03:00:31.720Z He's very aware of the fickleness of the public. Murdoch facing battle with staff in Sun showdown 2012-02-13T18:46:38Z Accused her of fickleness and cruelty, and called Heaven to witness, how little I merited her displeasure. The Monctons A Novel: Volume 2 (of 2) 2012-02-11T03:03:50.943Z He was a man of great abilities and learning, although remarkable for a fickleness in religious matters. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 101, October 4, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-30T03:00:13.383Z "That's my dear James," the child cried; and, with the easy fickleness of her years, she unclasped her arms from Christina's neck, and held them out to the footman. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z Yet even this short stay near Paris was marked by the same evidences of fickleness and selfishness on the part of the First Consul, as were shown in his every relation with the Holy See. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z Such rapid expansion has raised the eyebrows of retail analysts who question whether the Kors label will maintain its cachet or succumb to the fickleness of fashion. DealBook: Michael Kors Raises $950 Million in I.P.O. 2011-12-14T23:47:28Z There is no fickleness about Him: those whom He loves, He loves unto the end. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z The reason for such fickleness is very obvious. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z We may show due consideration without fickleness, and kindness without familiarity. The Hearth-Stone Thoughts upon Home-Life in Our Cities 2011-09-28T02:00:22.560Z It is too bad that fickleness is rated so low, for really the emotion of slowly discovering that one is entering Elysium should be too great an experience to be foregone forever after. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z A passing fancy made you love him; fickleness renders him indifferent to you. Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z Earthly homes, alas, are full of fickleness and uncertainty. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z "Nay, I have no power; for I fear me nothing short of putting Your Grace under lock and key would cure you of that fickleness." The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z But for Neale there was no Fate, nor chance, nor enemy, nor fickleness of woman on whom to lay the blame. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z It is hardly to be supposed that such sort of fickleness can serve to make a government respectable. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z The fickleness of financing for organizations like the Legal Services Corporation was one of the main reasons Judge Lippman said he was moved to urge the State Legislature to act. City Room: Legal Assistance in Civil Cases Under Growing Threat 2011-09-16T21:03:06Z The exceptions are 2 Corinthians, where he writes under strong and painful emotion, and Galatians, where a vehement accusation of fickleness takes the place of the usual greeting. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z No reader of the Old Testament can fail to have been struck by the singularly credulous fickleness of the Jewish mind. Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z With the genuine fickleness of March weather, the stormy militia changed in one moment to curiosity and desire to hear some new stroke of wit from the jester. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Yet Miss Brinville made no progress in self-perception: his changes were attributed to caprice or fickleness; and her desire grew but more urgent to fix her wavering conquest. The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:26.867Z But others say the jury is still out on the lasting influence of Jobs' creations, given the breakneck pace of technological innovations and the fickleness of consumers. Analysis: Where does Jobs stand among America's iconic CEOs? 2011-08-25T23:58:52Z No Canadian statesman has had sounder or more abundant ideas, but a certain intellectual fickleness made him always a somewhat untrustworthy colleague in political life. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z With a child's fickleness he boldly declared that he liked "noo nurse better than old nurse." A Life For a Love A Novel 2011-08-18T02:00:24.323Z My gracious lady, they accuse soldiers of fickleness, but unjustly. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z He was without the cunning of Murray, the fickleness of Maitland, or the ferocity of Morton. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:23.870Z "Who draws the sword will perish by the sword, for such is the fickleness of fortune," said Zagloba. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z The changes which the Roman has witnessed in unchanging Rome are met in himself by changeableness and fickleness of purpose, though the conception of the majestic, the grandiose, the eternal is always there. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z In one, the poet boasts of his conquests and his fickleness. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z This fickleness of humor and inopportune boastfulness enraged her to the last degree; therefore she said haughtily and with emphasis, "You must choose between me and them; there is no other way." The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z OFUNATO, Japan — Entering this port city by car these days means confronting nature’s fury and its fickleness all at once. In Japan, High Schoolers Use Baseball to Help Forget 2011-07-09T17:56:57Z Somehow the "mud"-pilot found us, his boat taking away our deep-water man, in whom—such is the fickleness of mankind—we had now lost all interest. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Heads are cut off; the prison opens its gates, and many poor subjects are thrust in to contemplate in silence the fickleness of fortune, or their own sins. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z How many women have forgiven some fickleness or unfaithfulness in their lovers and have been happy wives! A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z The reasons which thy father gives are valid enough, as thou givest weight to them; but one thing more than all has struck me--it is called the fickleness of women. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z If we add to these the fickleness of a sensational experience—labeled, true spiritual religion—we may begin to understand my religious undoing. What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul 2011-07-03T02:00:08.347Z By superficial observers this was set down to a certain fickleness of disposition; but the truth seems rather to have been that Scattergood, consciously or unconsciously, was engaged in the quest for the Perfect Horse. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z The Essenes would not marry, not because they denied the validity of the institution or its necessity, but because they were convinced of the artfulness and fickleness of the female sex. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z This fickleness is evidence that the party has yet to coalesce around former Gov. Political Memo: Huntsman?s Next Act: How Does He Follow That First Kodak Moment? 2011-06-23T03:37:23Z Terrified at this speech, Wilhelm felt still more embarrassed, as the old man proceeded to vituperate her fickleness and wantonness. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z A fearsome thunderstorm or howling tornado of dust might reveal her fickleness of mood at any moment. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z Deserving your reprobation, I have received tender respect; having forfeited by my fickleness and falsehood all claim to kindness, I have been cherished as the truest wife in the land might hope to be. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Since on my first visit I had departed on such good terms with these people, I was the more astonished at their fickleness. Colonial Expeditions to the Interior of California Central Valley, 1800-1820 Anthropological Records 16(6):239-292, 1958 2011-06-13T02:00:22.167Z Among other matters he has a long story to tell about his friend Bailey’s fickleness in love. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Hence woman loves man more purely; she loves in him the present object of her heart, he in her, oftentimes, the image of his fancy; hence comes his fickleness and vacillation. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z He contrasts her stability with the fickleness of France. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z To-day it is the English who charge the French with fickleness. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z After you have lived as long as I have, you'll find out that fickleness is not such a great fault, after all. The Mystery of the Locks 2011-05-29T02:00:08.800Z "A defence of fickleness quite unworthy of you; and moreover, Noel, utterly untrue, for of all people in the world you are the very last to surrender anything you really want." A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Here fortune, by an unexpected reverse, made me sensible of her inconstancy and fickleness. The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z It’s either that or the strange rules, fickleness and irritability of cord-cutting. How Hulu Plus On XBox Reminds Me Of My College Girlfriend 2011-04-30T13:30:08Z I ran down to my room and found a candle, to be armed against any further fickleness of the lights, and set out for the fourth floor. The Siege of the Seven Suitors 2011-04-25T02:00:08.730Z Numbers complain of the fickleness and ingratitude of those on whom they bestowed their affection; but few examine, whether what they complain of is not owing to themselves. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z Exhibit true superiority by virtuous conduct and the exercise of reason; meditate deeply on the vanity of earthly things, and understand the fickleness of life. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z Will Myspace forever be a byword for the fickleness of consumer websites, and the failure of big media to exploit them? MySpace: Revenues and audience looking up, apparently 2011-04-13T15:56:00Z He seems to have conceived of female character as a compound of fickleness, infidelity, malice, falsehood, and light love. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z That Japan will not but burn its dead is a lesson in the fickleness of tradition. Why Mass Burials Are Another Cause for Grief in Japan 2011-04-04T04:15:00Z The capricious reproached him with fickleness; the voluptuary said: "He thinks of nothing but his pleasure." Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z But when attacked by laziness, fickleness, or disease, they easily slump back into the same economic pit. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z You display a truly edifying fickleness of character. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z Who was the Hannah, whose fickleness occasioned that exquisite little poem which Montgomery has inscribed "To the memory of her who is dead to me?" The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-03-01T03:00:48.107Z Marot could hardly have expected to find her a paragon of constancy; yet he laments her fickleness, as if it had touched his heart. The Romance of Biography (Vol 1 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. 2011-02-25T03:01:04.597Z The newspapers, too, with a fickleness that seems their most invariable feature, spoke most flatteringly of his services, and placed his name beside those who had conferred highest honor on the judgeship. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z In spite of his fickleness he was an honest fellow and passed for a tolerable humorist among his friends. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z For idolized though he is by the French people, he realizes their fickleness, and he knows that the Directory is jealous of him. Napoleon's Young Neighbor 2011-01-24T03:00:18.637Z But the very fickleness of the reaction -- up one day, down the other, would seem to undermine the rationale for paying any attention to the zigs and zags. Wall Street can't get off the Euro-roller coaster 2011-01-12T19:56:00Z So long have women met the tragic fact of fickleness and evasion in the men of their majestic concentrations—that fear puts its weight against the doors that love would open wide. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z Young Lendrick came away not a little disgusted with this taste of human fickleness. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z It was owing largely to the inborn fickleness of people of a tropical clime. Where Duty Called or, In Honor Bound 2011-01-01T03:00:22.753Z When his passionate temper got the better of his attempted calmness, he would even reproach me bitterly on account of my heartlessness and my fickleness. Problematic Characters A Novel 2010-12-26T03:00:15.780Z As this was coincident with the arrival of Hope at her uncle's house, I needed no further explanation of his fickleness. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z Our second scenario to show the fickleness of probability is called The Father-Daughter Dance. Numberplay: The Relativity of Probability 2010-08-16T18:23:00Z We see a fickleness in the macro economy creating an awful lot of uncertainty for our customers, and it's very difficult to predict their behavior. A Jump in Hiring—but Only Part-Time 2010-08-06T03:46:00Z As is often the way in the tumultuous fickleness of the Bernabéu, the club lost interest in him as thoughts turned to the next batch of incoming stars. World Cup 2010: Holland holding out to shake off ghosts of Seventies 2010-07-05T20:04:00Z Whether it was because of that, or fickleness, or the attractions of better-paying opportunities, many of the original Faster Times contributors gradually drifted off. Online Journalism Entrepreneurs 2010-05-13T11:10:00Z His father had no patience with such fickleness, and their words ran high. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z August 16 Numberplay: The Relativity of Probability A set of simple problems to show the fickleness of estimating probabilities and the subtlety required to get them right. Numberplay: The Relativity of Probability 2010-08-16T18:23:00Z When speaking of the face, he remarks, that persons having a large forehead are of slow intellect, that smallness of that part indicates fickleness, great breadth stupidity, and roundness irascibility. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History It is characteristic of the man that he says, quite naturally, that the landlord should share with his tenant such risks from the fickleness of nature. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Admitting that the bulk of what is said about the negro’s fickleness is true, he nevertheless is indiscriminately maligned. Races and Immigrants in America "You speak as bitterly, madame, as if you had suffered from the fickleness," said Nina, with a contemptuous curl of her soft lips. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The horse's supposed fickleness was nothing but a token of the fact that even those who were accustomed to working with him, did not have him completely in hand. Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology "If only Alexa had not dragged me into it!" he complained to himself, with his shallow fickleness of thought. Majesty A Novel But he too realized the fickleness of the Borgias’ favour when Alexander backed up Louis XII. of France in the latter’s schemes for the conquest of Naples. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" We thus come to spend a great part of our days thwarting ourselves through the results of our fickleness, yet without knowing who it is that thwarts us. The Sources Of Religious Insight The Englishman describes himself and his foibles—his fickleness, his fondness for new fashions and his obstinacy—in lively verse. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Superficiality, vanity, passion for dress, fickleness, and so forth, do not satisfy his sense of propriety. The Progressionists, and Angela. He was one of those men whom Nature, having gifted largely, "takes out" the compensation by a disposition of instability and fickleness that renders every acquirement valueless. The Fortunes Of Glencore He was overwhelmed with sadness; for he had long known the fickleness of the Romans, and the ease with which they could be misled caused grave fears of an early defection from his cause. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. Our social responsibilities tend to set limits to our fickleness. The Sources Of Religious Insight Be not weak-hearted—trust none of them—they are false, every one: some from envy; some from treachery; some from that fickleness that they fancy to be knowledge of life; but all are alike. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) If indeed he repented at once, he might send her back, or transfer her to another of her countrymen upon the same terms, but when once they were united she was protected against his fickleness. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus "Men of principle, even to-day," Chester replies, "are accused of fickleness and inconsistency, and all sorts of unworthy motives, by those who do not understand them." Father Brighthopes An Old Clergyman's Vacation And," he continued, in a lower tone, "you know well its fickleness, and how little it requires to bring about the most fearful results. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. "I cannot understand such fickleness, such dark tendencies towards change," said Mr. Moore, in rebuking wonder. East Angels There is plenty of room, and even of occasion, for such fickleness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 At this thought she looked around, as if she must ask Eric what he thought of this conclusion, what opinion he would form of this fickleness. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Her fickleness of mood, her bewildering caprice, were the iridescent foam-bubbles veiling a deep and steady current. International Short Stories American Even thus early, however, whispers were heard of the King’s fickleness. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History Elise's fickleness, frivolity, and manifest infidelity soon brought about a divorce. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) It was not till the evening of life that he complained of the fickleness of fortune; that his star, as it descended to the horizon, was obscured by clouds and darkness. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 To be sure, fickleness and restlessness, never at ease in any regular employment, often led to this, but where this was not the case, one could predicate a deep fundamental trait of sincerity. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine His munificent and persevering efforts in the colonization of Virginia ought to have moderated the too sweeping charge of levity and fickleness brought against him by Hume. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia His father had faults enough to have wrecked a dozen enterprises: he was rash, reckless, and unstable; but his rashness took the form of courage, and his very fickleness had a false air of versatility. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The Tlascalans hated virulently their ancient foes the Mexicans, and with that fickleness of character, ever conspicuous in the uninformed multitude, became fond even to adulation of the Spaniards. Hernando Cortez Makers of History If I had inwardly reproached him for fickleness when he confessed his volte face, I exonerated him at sight of his old love. The Brightener The fickleness of chance, the waywardness of fortune, fill his mind with doubts and hesitations. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands To familiarize himself with the fickleness, the caprices, and the inconsequence of the multitude was impossible. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty You will not find this fickleness in the true intellectual world, which steadily pursues all its various 393 studies, and keeps them well abreast, century after century. The Intellectual Life The chief faults of the Aries people are impatience, anger, selfishness, and fickleness, together with a tendency to extreme aggressiveness. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Then he laid his tired and aching head on a pillow, and reflected on the sorrows of earth, on unappreciated merit, and on the vanity and fickleness of riches. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace She will come again next year, and the silly winds will forget her fickleness, paying court to her, while she dreamily crosses the mountains. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Behold the Man!' said Pontius Pilate, in words more full of significance than he knew, pointing to the victim of priestly hatred and popular fickleness. Modern Substitutes for Christianity Sickened and disgusted with the fickleness of mankind, I knew not where to turn. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II Domestic trials, and the fickleness of fortune, had caused him to look on the dark side of life—to dwell upon its sorrows, and frown upon the bright hopes of the young and the gay. The Lamplighter Contempt and scorn for her fickleness, not love—base and grovelling love—should ever be associated with her image, when undesiredly it arose to my repelling memory. Wau-nan-gee or the Massacre at Chicago A Romance of the American Revolution The royal young man had a striking lesson on the fickleness of the populace. A Prince of Good Fellows And when she experienced, as all do experience, the fickleness of court favour, she was cherished and sheltered there. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries While sickness kept him a prisoner, he was torn by ideas of her volatility and fickleness. Life of John Keats How does that tally with the deceitfulness and waywardness and fickleness about which we really talk as if we were rather proud of them than utterly ashamed of them? Kept for the Master's Use Picart being now an old man, feared lest Madeline might in her fickleness fly off some day, and utter words of remorse to another confessor. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages There was perhaps never afforded such an instance of perfect infirmity and fickleness of purpose. History of Morgan's Cavalry In this determination he was less selfish than stern: he had reason to believe that his wife's treatment of him proceeded from folly and fickleness, and that his daughter had inherited her foibles. Brooke's Daughter A Novel The conversation was mostly facetious, and Mr. Bland's last remark concerned the fickleness of woman. Seven Keys to Baldpate With this author, Mr. Masters, Cole had quarrelled so often, that Masters writes, “I am well acquainted with the fickleness of his disposition for more than forty years past.” Calamities and Quarrels of Authors The essential point is to remember that such things were not caused, as they try to persuade us, by human fickleness, by the inconstancy of our fallen nature, by the chance persuasions of desire. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages He cursed himself for his sins and follies; he cursed the world for its fickleness and want of sympathy. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series Cyrus immediately, with a fickleness very common among great monarchs in the treatment of both enemies and favorites, began to consider Crœsus as his friend. Cyrus the Great Makers of History Frances despised her for her fickleness, scorned her for the mean face of friendship over the treachery of her soul. The Rustler of Wind River Not quite ten months later, when slipping almost secretly past Montreal, Macdonald alluded to this as an apt illustration of the fickleness of public opinion. The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion If his friends are cold, he bewails the fickleness of humanity; if they are successful, it is not envy that prompts his irritation, but the rarity of the correspondence between merit and reward. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) It seemed to me that fickleness was in the heart of the great Grand Duke. Phemie Frost's Experiences And beside her, oh! fickleness of a woman’s heart, oh! irony of life, oh! cruelty to the most faithful passion, Colonel Livingstone, now my Lord Kilsyth. Graham of Claverhouse It should be observed, however, that the characteristic idleness of criminals makes them disinclined to adopt any profession, and when they do, their extreme fickleness prompts them to change continually. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso Iris' fickleness had killed his mad infatuation at one blow, and, man-like, his heart returned at once to its old allegiance. Pretty Madcap Dorothy Or, How She Won a Lover And Earth might wear a changeful sign, And fickleness the Sky— Yet, even then, that love of thine Might never change nor die. Whittier-land A Handbook of North Essex, Containing Many Anecdotes of and Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier Never Before Collected. The weather, with its surprising fickleness, had become very clear and dry; and although the guides were two miles from the sledge, the doctor did not miss one of their movements. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras It was the first time that Theresa had felt the fickleness of popular favor; and who does not know the morbid sensitiveness with which the poet shrinks from censure? Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 He pulled off the queen's ring and threw it from him, muttering curses upon the fickleness and faithlessness of women. Queen Elizabeth Makers of History And recent events in Egypt have reminded us of the old fickleness shown in the saying, 'Thy entering into a village begins with acclamations; at thy going out thou art saved by thy hand.' The Religion of Ancient Egypt History might have overlooked the act of political fickleness in his earlier career, which was so warmly resented by many of his contemporaries. James Madison And then she added, a little reproachfully: 'That you of all people should accuse me of fickleness!' Lover or Friend In such hazardous unions the junior partner is, for some unexplained reason, of the sex which has the repute of a generic fickleness as well as the supposed volatility of its fewer years. Imaginary Interviews Now, there was instanced the truth of what Alex had said about the fickleness of caribou nature. The Young Alaskans on the Trail Their universal bad character, therefore, for fickleness, infidelity, ingratitude, revenge, malice, rage, depravity, laziness, knavery, thievishness, and cunning, though not deficient in capacity and cleverness, renders them people of no use in society. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement Will the same friend display equal fickleness in regard to this volume? Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance The ring presaged the next bride or groom, the darning needle single blessedness to the end, the thimble, many to sew for, or feed, the button, fickleness or disappointment. Dishes & Beverages of the Old South If one has suddenly changed for no apparent reason, one must be glad to find a reason in the constitution of things, and to attribute one's fickleness to one's time of life. Imaginary Interviews She had too much self-respect to let him perceive that she resented his fickleness. In Brief Authority The fickleness of the mob is shown in a spirit of comedy; the antagonism of Marullus and Flavius strikes the note of tragedy. The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar Unhappy man—a pregnant and ever-striking example of the fickleness of human affairs, and of the instability of human grandeur! Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance The poem is merely an imaginative, dramatic representation of the fickleness of popular favor. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning The restlessness of age, its fickleness, its volatility, is the expression of immense fatigue. Imaginary Interviews With the fickleness of their race, his name was cursed at every street corner; and when spoken of, the people said, "There is no Menebbi." In the Tail of the Peacock Instead of leaving Wharfside comforted as he usually did, he came away wounded and angry, feeling to its full extent the fickleness of popular sympathy. The Perpetual Curate A look of sorrow that may not be told passed over his fair face; but Artemis stretched forth her hand towards the flashing sun and swore that the maiden should rue her fickleness. Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life It would seem here that God might be accused of fickleness. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood The risk of losing her just as the committee would be ready to meet, for her fickleness verged on insanity, he had to accept. The Art of Disappearing It is Gustavus, for whom I have mourned so long, whom I accused of fickleness in deserting me.” The Mines and its Wonders I ascribe this fickleness to the situation of their country; they are islanders and seamen, and probably become affected by the variable element that surrounds them. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. And lastly, I shall bring discredit upon him by bringing him back to me, thus showing the fickleness of his mind. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks The fickleness of the horses, then, instead of being the result of witchcraft, as he was inclined to believe, was chargeable solely to the ignorance of their hardly more intelligent master. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes He turned away, dreading the fickleness which is customary with women. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man Only what's lovely Love can truly love, And fickleness and falsehood are deformed. The Woman Who Dared It was the people as a whole, whose fickleness from age to age he was about to condemn; on this verse Duhm's remarks are, besides being arbitrary, inconsistent.364.Above, pp. Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 She should, moreover, speak with disparagement of the other lovers of the girl, and talk about the avarice and indiscretion of their parents, and the fickleness of their relations. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks Charles and Louisa had, however, repented almost before the formalities of abdication were over, and the newly arrived Queen of Etruria supported them in their fickleness. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) If below the surface there are a somewhat brutal savagery, a cruel fickleness, these are traits common with all human beings together assembled; they are merely evidence of man's close relationship to ape and tiger. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia It was mischief, and only mischief, that he did; and though the scale on which he perpetrated mischief was great, his fickleness and vacillation deprived it altogether of the dignity of greatness. Pyrrhus Makers of History I entreated her to consider of what fickleness she would be thought capable, and what interpretation might be placed upon such inconsiderateness if she should prefer Cardinal Mazarin to Madame de Chevreuse. Political Women, Vol. 1 The subsequent fate of Manlius, who saved the city, suggests the fickleness and ingratitude of a republican State. Ancient States and Empires The sayings about women's fickleness are mostly of French origin; from the famous distich of Francis the First, upward and downward. The Subjection of Women He thus vindicates the Athenians from the charge of fickleness, on the ground that it was not they, but Miltiades who had changed. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 The Indians, with that fickleness of mind peculiar to savage races, now hastened to offer terms of amity and peace to the party whom the fortunes of war had left uppermost. The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief In concluding, I cannot help remarking that this circuit of the wind from SW. by W. to NW. or N., from our insular position, imparts to our climate its fickleness and inconstancy. Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. It was not fickleness, but a change in their opinions, founded on sufficient grounds, from the deep disappointment in finding that their hero was unworthy of their regards. Ancient States and Empires What a picture of the fickleness and treachery of the heart!—That excited populace who are now shouting their hosannahs, are ere long to be raising the cry, “Crucify Him, crucify Him!” Memories of Bethany As any remarkable instance of fickleness we should certainly not be disposed to cite the case. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Whether from a spiteful desire to perplex the object of his dislike, or natural fickleness of character, every letter from him brought with it some new plan. The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief With fancy and desire unchecked, what ingenious tricks they used to keep themselves in the public mind,—tricks begot of fickleness and fickleness begetting. The Place of Honeymoons Superficial students of her modern history have freely charged her with political irresponsibility and fickleness; no charge could be less warranted by facts. The Story of Paris If he does not make the effort, it is only because he is long past the necessity of demonstrating himself to himself, and not from any fickleness of fancy on his own part. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories In the sentence passed on the hero of Marathon, the operation of a popular government has been often disadvantageously traced; the Athenians have been accused of fickleness and ingratitude. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 I freely forgave Pontianus when he begged for pardon, and I have no wish to seem to reproach him now for the fickleness of his conduct. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura However you may blame my fickleness, do not blame him; he has not changed!” Her Mother's Secret It was here that Pollux first experienced the fickleness of royal favour. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History "But," says one, "I am opposed to fickleness and change." Thoughts on Missions When Caroline had freely spoken to him about it, he made some little snappish remark as to the fickleness of women; but he at the same time signified that he would not object. The Bertrams On the contrary, she rebuked him for his fickleness and inconstancy, and it was no pleasant news he took back to his father-in-law. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura It is the real power of re-forming an opinion, which is the very opposite of that mere formlessness which we call fickleness. Lord Kitchener Never again would he be lured into the net of feminine fickleness. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Did God favor fickleness and change when he prevented the permanent location of the apostles in Palestine, by a voice from heaven, and by violent persecutions? Thoughts on Missions His friends have charged him with fickleness, but he was a man who was in the preoccupation of haste. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays It was not, therefore, any fickleness, but assured grounds, that set me upon writing again. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes Such fickleness is absurd, and will greatly dishonor you. Xerxes Makers of History But to acknowledge this implied a fickleness of temperament that was disastrous to his self-respect. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Did the Saviour favor fickleness in his last command? Thoughts on Missions Unfortunately, Madame de Barancy, on account of her very fickleness of nature, was difficult to reach. Jack 1877 So great is our natural fickleness, that we are continually exposed to change, even in regard to God, and thus lose the only happiness worth possessing—His friendship. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus England is not the only spot famed for fickleness of atmosphere. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 His conduct was indeed contemptible; it revealed an utter instability and fickleness of mind which made her gravely uneasy as to Mary Travers's chances of permanent happiness. Comedies of Courtship Mary has heard of her lover's fickleness, which she would fain disbelieve, but alas Kezul shows her the document by which Hans renounces her. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Thus the example of Christ forbids all fickleness and falsehood. The Wesleyan Methodist Pulpit in Malvern Sermons Preached at the Opening Services of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in 1866 Our natural fickleness will die in our temporal death, never to rise again, and our whole nature will be clothed with immutability, and remain the selfsame forever. The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus I don't have any illusions about the fickleness of the Telly fans, but for a day or two I'll be on top. Mercenary Louis and the National Assembly yielded to the menace, the court returned to Paris, politics grew hotter and more bitter, the fickleness of the mob became a stronger influence. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Meanwhile Rigoletto persuades his daughter to fly from the Duke's pursuit, but before he takes her away, he wants to show her lover's fickleness, in order to cure her of her love. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas This is not more extraordinary than the fickleness of mind just now described. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) The existence of this recklessly revolutionary minority and the fickleness of republican union are the chief causes of ministerial instability, one of the worst features of the present regime. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 It is doubtful if this sudden change in their treatment of him was especially gratifying to the Bishop, as it indicated fickleness and lack of depth in the people he had come to rule. Las Casas 'The Apostle of the Indies' Her husband appears to have been for a short time more constant, but, convinced of her fickleness, to have become as unfaithful as she. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) In the original text it really shows female fickleness, and justifies its title. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Her vanity and affectation, her womanly fickleness and caprice, all had their part in the diplomatic comedies she played with the successive candidates for her hand. History of the English People, Volume IV There never was a nose so completely out of joint as Wallie's nor an owner more thoroughly humiliated and embittered by the fickleness and ingratitude of human nature. The Dude Wrangler Had we as brave men been defeated By brave men, we might have consoled ourselves With common thoughts of Fortune's fickleness: But that a sorry farce should be our ruin!— The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Scraps of cynical comment on the fickleness of her sex, some of them dating back to Virgil and Juvenal, flitted through his memory and stung like gad-flies. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale Do you deem me capable of such fickleness? The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse We certainly very frequently experienced the fickleness of the elements. A Voyage round the World A book for boys The weak and covetous sultan of Borneo has, with more than the usual fickleness of Asiatics, already forgotten the lessons we gave him and the engagements he solemnly and voluntarily contracted with us. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy "Not for school, but for life, we learn;" and our habits—of promptness, earnestness, and thoroughness, or of tardiness, fickleness, and superficiality—are the things acquired most readily and longest retained. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power He had heard enough of the fickleness of those in authority, and he did not expect to be better treated than others. A True Hero A Story of the Days of William Penn Whenever we could meet, Halliday, Ben, and I—not trusting to the sheikh’s promises, of whose fickleness we had many proofs—eagerly discussed the possibility of escaping. Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures However, not many minutes afterwards, the wind, true to its proverbial character of fickleness, died away, and we were left without any guide by which to steer our course across the trackless deep. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman But mark the ingratitude of a people—the fickleness of a crowd. The Seven Champions of Christendom But finally, not without showing some irritation at the fickleness of the commissioners, he was brought to agree that Congress might ratify the treaty either with or without these articles, as it should see fit. Benjamin Franklin "Not for school, but for life, we learn"; and our habits—of promptness, earnestness, and thoroughness, or of tardiness, fickleness, and superficiality—are the things acquired most readily and longest retained. Pushing to the Front This was indeed moral courage, and not weak changeableness or fickleness, because it had a noble object. Amos Huntingdon It is strange that the moon generally has all the blame for fickleness, when the sun quite as often hides his face without sufficient warning. The Boy Patriot It’s not fickleness—it’s fertility of imagination; it’s not a collapse—it’s only a fresh beginning! A Houseful of Girls The transient favor of chance did not dazzle him; on the contrary, apprehending his fickleness, he never again ventured any big sum. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 Vanity, frivolity, and fickleness die within them; and they grow to be humble and courageous, disinterested and laborious, strong and persevering. Education and the Higher Life She was forever having a "crush" on some girl or other, getting suddenly over it, and seeking another affinity with bewildering fickleness. The Corner House Girls at School We sometimes wonder to find a friend cold and distant to us, and perhaps we moralize on the fickleness and inconstancy of men, but the reason may be to seek in ourselves. Friendship Alas! for the fickleness of a world which changes its idols almost as often and as easily as its fashions. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 No two males behave in the same way under the spur of female fickleness. The Girl on the Boat But I must spare you, for you will have heard that same charge of fickleness from Mistress Quinton, and it is hard to hear it from two at once. Simon Dale The Hebrews had as one of their gods, Yahveh, whom they endowed with their qualities; qualities inherent in a primitive people: jealousy and might, trickery and fickleness. The Necessity of Atheism In him, though he did not know it, was awake to-night the fickleness of the south, of the southern spirit that forgets so quickly what is no longer near to the southern body. The Call of the Blood She had gone easily from one affair to another not so much from fickleness as from growth. Quin The weather has become settled and autumnal, and is equally without the chilling moisture of the winter, or the fickleness of the spring. Recollections of Europe Somewhat nettled she showed displeasure, charged him with the fickleness of satiation. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 With her there was never caprice or fickleness. The Hippodrome His hopeless despair, melancholy, sullen apathy in many cases, want of energy, and fickleness of mind, thwart all attempts that are made for him. Plain Facts for Old and Young In Italy, he began to indulge in his love of splendid extravagance, and in the fastidious fickleness which belonged to the evil side of his character. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sometimes the usurpation of the executive power, sometimes the fickleness and unbridled license of the people, had brought popular governments to destruction. Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective One may easily imagine with what magnificence preparations were made for the nuptials; the king hastened them, lest his daughter's fickleness and levity might cause disappointment to their dearest hopes. The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew She was tormented with temporal fears of a continental crusade against her, and by the spiritual terrors of the Pope's Bull; and her unfathomable fickleness was the despair of her servants. By What Authority? There has been no touch of selfishness in your fickleness. Can You Forgive Her? He mournfully assumed that he was captured, and would probably have made some philosophical reflections on the fickleness of fortune, had not his internal sensations disinclined him to speech. Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Shortly after you were born, she died, fortunately spared all knowledge of your father's faithless fickleness. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) There was no fickleness in him, his inner condition was always the same: stable, constant, firmly rooted as the hills. Memorials of the Faithful You have confessed your fickleness in an almost shameless way; and now you ask me to help you with the other girl! The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension And hearing this, he would walk out among those rich heaps, at the back of his farmyard, uttering deep curses against the falsehood of men and the fickleness of women. Can You Forgive Her? And to these the fickleness and thinness of soul attendant on ignorance and selfishness, as well as on miscellaneous dissipation, are fatal. The Friendships of Women The last of the circle was a fair-haired, broad-shouldered lad, who stood apart from the others, big, shy, silent:—but he was earnest amid their shallowness, noble amid their hollowness, and devoted amid their fickleness. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes I don’t think it will last more than half an hour; and then she was coming to try to persuade you to keep her fickleness in countenance.” Sword and Gown A Novel It is, I presume, an allegory to contrast faithful devotion and constancy with unfaithfulness and fickleness. The Idiot He had neither his father's versatility nor his fickleness nor his artistic interests. The Age of the Reformation Envy, vanity, fickleness, spite, festering incompatibilities of character, often prove fatal in these veiled and intimate relations. The Friendships of Women Anything!" exclaimed big Bill Nairne with intense conviction and hyperbole, more excusable than his old prudence and fickleness, "Anything! Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes But she was disappointed in her hope of being censured for her fickleness and unfaithfulness, for the doctor remained indifferent. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) He knows and he despises with active and immitigable contempt the shallowness and fickleness of the multitude. Shadows of the Stage She never dreamed of accusing her of fickleness or unevenness, but received whatever kindness she offered with gratitude. Alec Forbes of Howglen That you deserted me and turned to Gunhild instead—I took that to be mere common fickleness on your part, and the result of heartless scheming on hers. John Gabriel Borkman As for Miss Lucy, who saw herself displaced, she wrote to Philemon Ward, and told him of her jilting, and railed at the fickleness and frailty of the sex. A Certain Rich Man Her jealousy vanished instantly, her cruel suspicion that she would surprise him in love with another woman, with the fickleness of an artist. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) The fickleness and ingratitude of the people were never more dramatically illustrated. The Story of Newfoundland This feature of their character explains the inconstancy and fickleness exhibited by the Christianized Man�bos at the beginning of their conversion. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir But it is clearer still that we ought to be tolerant of one another, because we are all weak, inconsistent, liable to fickleness and error. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary In the earlier stages, the instability of men's imaginings and conceptions was kaleidoscopic; but it was no more governed by wanton fickleness and caprice than is the course of modern thought. Nature Mysticism To Tarchon he declares His name and race, the aid he asks and bears, The friends Mezentius gathers to the fray, And Turnus' violence; then warns, with prayers, Of Fortune's fickleness. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor This is not fickleness; it is Nature; and there is a natural remedy—progress. The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 The heart of man is strangely inclined to fickleness, to change, to promises, to gain. Pascal's Pensées From the beginning of the world women have complained of the fickleness that is imputed to them in favour of the first new object which presents itself, and whose novelty is often its only merit. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary He then complained of the fickleness of fortune, which he said, he began to experience. History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 If the letter of to-day is different from that of yesterday, her lover, in his heart at least, accuses her of fickleness. The Spinster Book She desired to taunt him with his old fickleness, and yet to subject herself to no imputation. Phineas Finn The Irish Member While all this was occurring, the struggle in Peru had continued to show the fickleness of the fortunes of war. South America "Do you call it fickleness to seek it wherever it may be found?" The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) The letters of Berlioz, in which he scourges the fickleness of his countrymen in returning again to their "false gods," are masterpieces of pointed invective. Great Italian and French Composers Philosophers laugh at woman's fickleness, but her constancy, when once awakened, endures beyond life and death, and sometimes beyond betrayal. The Spinster Book She was reproaching him now for his fickleness in having ventured to set his heart upon another woman, when she herself had been so much worse than fickle,—so profoundly false! Phineas Finn The Irish Member The public began to show signs of fickleness, however, on the production of the "Alceste." The Great German Composers Her disposition was grave, her face indicated much wisdom and a heart void of fickleness. The Poison Tree A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal The complaints which he so often uttered concerning the cruelty of fortune, the fickleness of princes, and so forth, were probably no more just then than such complaints are now. Health and Education A State Secret The intentional absence scheme is too transparent to succeed, and temporary devotion to another girl is definite damage to his cause, for it indicates fickleness and instability. The Spinster Book That comes from the fickleness about which papa is so fond of quoting his Latin. Phineas Finn The Irish Member But the fact that Heine never created a monumental literary work of enduring worth is not attributable solely to a fickleness of artistic purpose or lack of will-energy. Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry Once they had had wealth, relatives, men and maid servants—abundance of all kinds; but by the fickleness of fortune, one after another, all had gone. The Poison Tree A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal The month of March in the great, southward-reaching bight of the Tennessee River is the pattern and form of fickleness climatic. The Quickening That shows the incurable fickleness of that terrible despot of “society,” middle-class public opinion, and once more justifies the contempt in which we Socialists of a past generation always held that public opinion. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 The fickleness of the Pope caused a continual series of disappointments in the progress of the work, which was finally abandoned for the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation She goes around with a "Didn't-I-tell-you-so?" expression oozing out of every feature of her face, and I think she tells Elizabeth she is fortunate to have discovered his fickleness so soon. Kitty Canary A parody in Esperanto verse, entitled Lingvo de Molenaar, and sung to the tune of the American song Riding down from Bangor, narrates the fickleness of Pan-Roman and how it changed into Universal. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar He fell a sacrifice to the vices of all classes—to the selfishness of the rich and the fickleness of the poor:—intolerance, formalism, scepticism, hatred of goodness, were the foes which crushed Him. Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series But with the usual fickleness of fortune, they seem to be more shunned by the male sex than attracted to it. Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Girl Sister of that "Idle Fellow." For fickleness it beats anything we have to grumble about in England. Four Months Besieged The Story of Ladysmith And it is enough that it has not ceased to exist, because of the changeableness and fickleness of the country. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. "Perhaps"—he spoke politely, as if excusing the fickleness of the absent woman—"perhaps some fresh knowledge concerning the gentleman reached Miss Rexford." What Necessity Knows No flitting for him, no coquetting, no fickleness. Science in Arcady Fluctuating opinions and feelings produce fickleness of conduct; while settled convictions, stability of affections, and fixedness of purpose, give birth to persevering and methodical action. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character I have not changed my mind, nor am I guilty of any special fickleness. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town The fickleness of women is no new thing to me. The Rustlers of Pecos County Many of Lord Walter's people followed her, weeping and bewailing the fickleness of fortune. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories What thy holy self said unto me at that time, O Kesava, through affection, has all been forgotten by me, O chief of men, in consequence of the fickleness of my mind. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Having slain thy foes, and having acquired the sovereignty of the earth which has been won through observance of the duties of thy own order, why shouldst thou abandon everything through fickleness of heart? The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 K. is decidedly of opinion, that nothing but resolute conduct will overcome the fickleness and knavery of the Chinese. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Fluidity of judgment, adversely described as fickleness and inconsistency, is the essence of success. Success (Second Edition) He discarded his old friendships not from fickleness but because they were indeed unworthy of him. Mathilda Such fickleness as this is preferable to man's greatest constancy. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Nero himself now appears upon the scene, and a duet follows in which Poppoea reproaches him for his fickleness and he seeks to console her with flattery. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers No fickleness disturbs our lot; No jars its peace to smother; Ah, no; my faithful pipe and I Have wooed and won—each other. Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry You were not wont, in past days, to consider my presence an insult, and I could never have believed fickleness a part of your nature. Elsie's Womanhood The man who is governed by prudential considerations, and is always asking, Will it pay? is the incarnation of fickleness, instability, and feebleness. The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 Such being the case, and she having altered, not I, she cannot accuse me of fickleness. Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood How is that, Gripir! explain it to me: seest thou such fickleness in the king's mind, that with that maiden I shall my engagement break, whom with my whole heart I thought to love? The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson Contrast the earnestness of Valentine's nature in this devotion to Silvia with the fickleness of Protheus. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies A weak, wavering inactivity, fickleness of purpose, a keen sensibility, or sensitiveness, are also noticeable; while the subtlety of his theories is sharply penetrating, and forms the keystone to the arch of his character. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The Patriot and Instans Tyrannus both have a kind of nexus with the place and time; but the one is a caustic satire on popular fickleness and the other a sardonically humorous travesty of persecution. Robert Browning So we may safely say of the Celts that the fickleness for which they were famed in Roman times was not a racial, but a temporal or epochal defect. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 With their accustomed fickleness and treachery of character they prepared to sacrifice, for the sake of power, the man whom they conciliated and deceived in the same hope of retaining it. The Felon's Track History Of The Attempted Outbreak In Ireland, Embracing The Leading Events In The Irish Struggle From The Year 1843 To The Close Of 1848 You must live two years in our company before you enjoy mine, so that you may neither repent through fickleness, nor I be deceived through precipitation. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes She is well nigh distracted at best, these days, what with the fickleness of her husband and the yet harder abandonment by her old admirer Pakenham; so Polk will cajole her into disclosures, never fear. 54-40 or Fight The Welsh cannot be accused of fickleness if they became languid in a struggle against overwhelming power and a king who had shown them more tenderness than their leader for the time. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) The cheap satirist," he said, "is forever comparing the fickleness of men with the faithfulness of animals, but I don't mean to do that. Flames No, for it depends upon the exigencies of the Press and the frivolity and fickleness of the Public. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892 The cynical commonplace is "All women are alike"—and then follows the specific accusation—"in fickleness", "in extravagance", "in unreasonableness", in this trick or that. The Nervous Housewife Meanwhile Virgil expounds how the Creator decreed nations should wield the mastery in turn, adding that these people are victims of Fortune, whose proverbial fickleness he ably describes. The Book of the Epic And this, perhaps, he would have succeeded in reaching, had not Fortune, which seemed this night to give a loose to all her fickleness, prepared a new and greater difficulty. Nick of the Woods It is a pleasant way of shuffling off self-reproach and of excusing one's own fickleness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Then, with the customary fickleness of a mob, the soldiers applauded the corporal, who again announced his determination to thrash the first man of his squad who should declare non-combatant principles. The Downfall These changes are not primarily attributable to fickleness of nature, but to the extraordinary additions to their knowledge. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic To be short, with the true fickleness of his tribe, our skipper had abandoned all thought of the Cachalot. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I What particularly tortured their hearts was the fickleness of Jeanne's humor. A Love Episode In neither case can I be accused of fickleness. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Have not battles their surprises? has not history embalmed many an instance of the fickleness of fortune? The Downfall The element of fickleness is to be found chiefly in connection with the methods rather than in connection with the ends to be secured. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic That Divine Spirit will cure the fickleness of our natures; for our wills are never fixed till they are fixed in obedience, and never free until they elect to serve Him. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) I feared lest they should become impatient at our unexpected delay and, with the usual fickleness of the Indian character, remove from the establishment before we could arrive. The Journey to the Polar Sea Indignation at her fickleness for a moment overpowered every other feeling. Tales of a Traveller We cannot feel as they; and our constancy, compared to theirs, is fickleness. The Testing of Diana Mallory The rise and decline of the Christian Church in Japan has been instanced as a sign of the fickleness of the people. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic The atoms manifest a fickleness and will always desert a lesser attraction for a greater one. A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga You would palliate your unfaithfulness, represent your fickleness of mind as magnanimity! The Youth of the Great Elector The crowd, with a crowd's fickleness, turned to other affairs. Tales of the Five Towns I fear from what I have observed of your temperament that you will have to strive against fickleness. The Personal Life of David Livingstone This quality or appearance of fickleness is, then, a modern trait, due to the extraordinary circumstances in which Japan finds herself. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic It is probable that, owing to inherent fickleness and Betsey's gentle manipulation, his affairs rarely lasted long enough to attract attention. The Conqueror When I consider the faithfulness of this bird, I wonder at the fickleness of man and woman. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 Antonyms: constant, unwavering, steadfast, resolute. fickleness, n. vacillation, irresolution, inconstancy, volatility, tergiversation, capriciousness. fiddle, n. violin; kit. fiddler, n. violinist. fidelity, n. loyalty, fealty, faithfulness; truth, integrity. Putnam's Word Book Dante reproaches the famous Cino da Pistoja for fickleness, and the latter confesses the charge, and declares he cannot get "free from Love's pitiless aim." Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 They accept new ways so easily that those who do not have this faculty have no explanation for it but that of fickleness. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic I spoke to Mr. Drake the same evening on the terrace here, foolishly hinting the feminine consolation that he was well free from a girl of Clarice's fickleness. The Philanderers I consider, therefore, the insinuating references to my quarrelsome disposition and fickleness distinctly wide of the mark. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Many a man once seemingly pinnacled on the top of greatness has "shot from the zenith like a falling star," and become a proverb of the fickleness of fate. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 All the levity, fickleness, and vanity, the aridity, irony, and bitterness, of the evil days of my youth, disappeared, and I scarcely recognized myself. Raphael Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty The peculiarity of the American climate is its exaggeration rather than its fickleness; its passages from extreme heat to extreme cold, more than the frequency of its lesser transitions. A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland She upbraided him with his incredulity, his fickleness, and his want of affection; and, to convince him that her appearance was no aërial illusion, she gave suck, in his presence, to her youngest child. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in The Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition The fickleness of Fashion's foibles, too, in his favour. The New North Alas, how frequently young men mourn your fickleness, your frivolity, your fondness for show and dress, and your total lack of desire for the more solid attainments which enrich character, and beautify life. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses He mournfully assumed that he was captured, and would probably have made some philosophical reflections on the fickleness of fortune, had not his internal sensations disinclined him for speech. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents That is rather a foolish attitude; changing one's mind is commonly not a mark of fickleness but of intellectual advance. Our Lady Saint Mary If, therefore, I had since altered the style of my office, I might have an account to render of my fickleness: as you choose to alter it, that account should be rendered by you. The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 As a matter of fact, the causes were more fundamental than the mere fickleness of literary reputation or than the demands of editors and public that he repeat himself forever. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) It would seem that the fickleness of fashion exercises in constant local variations that mutability which is utterly denied to it in Brittany with regard to time. What I Remember, Volume 2 Tyche, the Greek name of the Latin goddess Fortuna, represented with various attributes to symbolise her fickleness, her influence, her generosity, &c. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge Wherefore some would have engaged me to prove that the admiral my father was honourably descended, although his parents, through the fickleness of fortune, had fallen into great poverty. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 03 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time My father began by setting it down to fickleness. True Tilda In looking over the list of exhibits, one finds evidence of the fickleness of fashion. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time "Mr. Chiffield," said he, "as a wholesale dealer in dry goods, you must have observed, perhaps at times experienced, the fickleness of fortune." Round the Block We have followed them through their various conflicts from early youth to mature age, and have seen in their several changes of belief that there was no fickleness, no real inconsistency. The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights Most of the savages, with characteristic fickleness of temper, then declined to go farther; but a body of somewhat over three hundred Hurons and Lake Indians remained. The Winning of the West, Volume 2 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1777-1783 Other factors, however, aided its growth, among them man's fickleness. Primitive Love and Love-Stories He cursed the girl's fickleness, her coyness, her obstinacy! The Castle Inn It is said, however, to suggest fickleness and caprice, levity and irresolution--a bad character for any tree. Among the Trees at Elmridge Soon—alas for puerile fickleness!— the name of "Kate" disappears, and is replaced by rougher appellations, such as "Bob" and "Charlie;" "Carrots" this, and "Chaw" that. Collections and Recollections His friends told him of the fickleness of Italian women, and he began to believe that she had deserted him. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Yes, though he has the reputation of great fickleness. The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel I do not impute fickleness to you, but merely point out a masculine characteristic, and that you are a man, and only a man, pure and unadulterated. My Brilliant Career Of course, I cannot deny the fickleness of man. From a Girl's Point of View I like it better than fickleness, don't you? The Man from Brodney's Scythrop tore both the letters to atoms, and railed in good, set terms against the fickleness of women. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction This brings us to a time of stress when Minna began to suffer from the fickleness of some one nearer to her than fortune. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 Ancient mythology typified the changing wonders of aquatic Nature, as well as the fickleness of the treacherous sea, in those shifting deities, Glaucus and Proteus, who tenanted the shore. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 Of course, I received a torrent of gibes on my fickleness; for they did not understand my feelings in respect to the responsibility that I feared to take for my younger sister. A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia With the childish fickleness of a mob, they now experienced a satisfaction almost as great as, though less exciting than, that attendant upon taking life. The Marrow of Tradition But water, the feminine element, is so mobile and impressible that it must protect itself by much that seems caprice and fickleness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Was it from him that Beethoven caught his own fickleness along with so much of his musical manner? The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2 |
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