unsteadfast

Example Sentences

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It may be said to pass yawning gulfs ‘on the unsteadfast footing of a spear:’ still it has an actual resting-place and tangible support under it—it is not suspended on nothing.

From Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by Zeitlin, Jacob

Down-streaming light, the hour, the stillness--a soul unsteadfast would have shrunk as from an apparition.

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary

The glances that he fixed upon me were unsteadfast and wild.

From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden

To pass along the trunk, rendered slippery by the wet and unsteadfast by the wind, was imminently dangerous.

From Edgar Huntly or, Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker by Brown, Charles Brockden

I heard them breathing but a moment since, But now they are gone, being unsteadfast things.

From The Countess Cathleen by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)