unsteadfast
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The peacock hath an unsteadfast and evil shapen head, as it were the head of a serpent, and with a crest.
From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele
Down-streaming light, the hour, the stillness--a soul unsteadfast would have shrunk as from an apparition.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
I wanted to breathe the desert’s breath, to drink of its life,—to do it homage and to love it—not for any fleeting beauty, but because my unsteadfast soul found it loveable and strong.
From Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully
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 Charles Brockden Brown
The glances that he fixed upon me were unsteadfast and wild.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Charles Brockden Brown