unfirm

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Are not you moved, when all the sway of earth Shakes like a thing unfirm?

From Julius Caesar by Shakespeare, William

The next moment he repeats this:   "For, boy, however we do praise ourselves,   Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm,   More longing, wavering, sooner lost and won,   Than women's are."

From The Man Shakespeare by Harris, Frank

To shrink from the task would prove me cowardly and unfirm.

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

For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn.

From What Great Men Have Said About Women Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77 by Haldeman-Julius, Marcet

Are you not moved, when all the sway of earth   Shakes like a thing unfirm?

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia