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His new name was a name of character and of spiritual standing, and that might fluctuate, and the old self resume its power; so he is still called by the former appellation, just as, at certain points in his life, the apostle forfeits the right to be 'Peter, and has to hear from Christ's lips the old name, the use of which is more poignant than many reproachful words; 'Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you. But in the last death-bed scene, when the patriarch lifted himself in his bed, and with prophetic dignity pronounced his parting benediction on Joseph's sons, the new name reappears with solemn pathos.
Her brother Val watched the gas gage on the instrument board of the roadster fluctuate wildly as the attendant of the station shook the hose to speed the flow of the last few drops. Five gallons a dollar ten. Did he have that much? He began to assemble various small hoards of change from different pockets. "Do you think we're going to like this?"
All wild animals fluctuate greatly in their population, none more so than the Snowshoe or white-rabbit of the north-west.
The values might fluctuate a bit, but on the whole they were always going up worth holding on to, in a world where there was such a lot of unreality, cheap building, changing fashions, such a "Here to-day and gone to-morrow" spirit. The French were right, perhaps, with their peasant proprietorship, though he had no opinion of the French. One's bit of land! Something solid in it!
And when one's feelings are opposite from this, a serious question and doubt usually arises as to whether the soul is really in Canaan-land or not. The fact is, one's feelings are no standard to go by; for they are subject to a variety of conditions, spiritual, mental, and physical, and change and fluctuate in a very swift and unaccountable manner many times.
All through the organic laws of the Nation and the States there are to be found restraints on numbers, as if the leading idea of the Constitution-makers of America were aversion to mere majorities, things that fluctuate from year to year, almost from day to day, and therefore are not to be trusted.
I can't imagine what it would be a miracle like quaker-ladies in the Antarctic." "It sounds uncomplimentary, and I'm sick of being compared with polar places. What are quaker-ladies?" "Fragile little flowers in the spring meadows." "I'd rather listen to the music than you." "That is why loving you is so eternal, why it doesn't fluctuate like a human emotion.
"Let her send me away. This isn't Not treating us like human beings." "Women," said Tarvrille and looked at his boot toes, "are different from men. You see, Stratton " He paused. "You always strike me, Stratton, as not realizing that women are weak things. We've got to take care of them. You don't seem to feel that as I do. Their moods fluctuate more than ours do.
The very fundamental assumptions as to the elasticity of population, and the accumulation of capital as wages and profits fluctuate, are clearly not absolute truths.
I must confess that the income of eighty pounds has somewhat baffled me, and the others are not so exact as I could wish; for the price of washing varies largely in foreign countries, and the different cokes, coals and firewoods fluctuate surprisingly.
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