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These students of old gossip and close investigation, have alleged that Charles was long and lanky, after he had ceased to be Baby Charles; that his nose was too large, and, alas! apt to redden; that his eyes were vacillating; and his mouth, the loosely hung mouth of a man who begins by being irresolute, and ends by being obstinate.
Stephen and I will have our coffee comfortably in the drawing-room and find what excuses we can for you." But Stephen put out his hand with a movement of slightly rigid deprecation. "If it is not too vacillating of me," he said, "and I may be forgiven, I think I will change my mind, and go.
The aggrieved are timid, vacillating, and simple, and cannot readily procure even necessary evidence; for their witnesses are afraid to speak. Under these circumstances, I look at the leading features of the case, the probability, the characters, the position of parties, and determine according to my judgment.
Tilden, with the view of devising measures against the possibility of a subversion of the government by military or arbitrary power, but fortunately the device and action of the Electoral Commission averted all danger of that sort. The timid and vacillating behavior of Mr.
You are in a state of uncertainty most women live always in that state; and your vacillating soul like a bewildered butterfly you see I am copying the clerical example by dropping into poetry! and a butterfly, NOT a cigarette, is I believe the correct emblem of Psyche, " here he took a whiff at his cigar, and smiled pleasantly "your soul, I repeat, like a bewildered butterfly, has lighted by chance on a full-flowering parson.
I was mad with love; and this conduct, honorable and manly as it was in him, occasioned an explanation between me and Lady Emily, in which, weak and vacillating as I was, in the frenzy of the moment I disclosed, avowed my passion, and but why proceed?
It seemed less injurious than the possibility of a vacillating, independent Poland playing off one neighbour against another. That possibility will still be present in the minds of the diplomatists who will determine the settlement after the war.
All the advice I can give you is to draw back by degrees, and so let the flirtation subside. If there is no actual entanglement " "Stop a bit, Carr; I had not come to it," interrupted Lord Hartledon, who in point of fact had been holding back what he called the climax, in his usual vacillating manner.
It is more than probable that the selfish and ignoble torments of the sleepless and vacillating judge were greater than those of the prisoner who dozed at the stake between his curses.
This is the same sultanate which let the Turks through against us in the summer of 1915 and whose ruler was prominent in the sacking of Lahej. I could also point to the Imam of Yamen, strong in opposition to the Turks as a rallying point of tribal revolt, but weak and vacillating on the side of law and order.
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