abilities

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It is amusing to think how soon the "mutabilities of fashion" did for a time supersede many of his designs.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick

The reason of this is that the mutabilities of national life, which are as the water-floods, need constant remedies; the stability of the Church seldom needs new legislation.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

Can ye take to your bosoms wives, who will afflict you with mutabilities as great, sudden, various, as those of the elements which surround you?

From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 by Jones, James Athearn

From human haps and mutabilities It rests exempt, beneath the edifice To which itself gave rise; Sustaining centre to the bubble of stone Which, breathed from it, exists by it alone.

From Sister Songs; an offering to two sisters by Thompson, Francis

Thus the very first chapter of this second edition has to record an instance of the casualties and mutabilities which the short space of ten years has effected.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall