Changeful

Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The little wizard, as Uncle Morris facetiously called her changeful impulses, was her tyrant. ❋ Daniel Wise (1855)

I think the epithet 'changeful' prettier, and, until we know what ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Marcus is a typical Sutcliff hero, a dutiful Roman who is increasingly drawn to the British world of "other scents and sights and sounds; pale and changeful northern skies and the green plover calling". ❋ Unknown (2011)

The poet John Betjeman's "early nip of changeful autumn" is about to arrive with a vengeance in the UK, with ground frost and snow on high ground ending the Indian summer. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I could not guess, for his face was less changeful than a bowl of bronze. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Whom changeful Fortune martyrs, guides and thralls! ❋ Unknown (2010)

What's happened to all of us, the once hopeful and changeful? ❋ Unknown (2010)

A World Restored is instead valuable as a metaphor for what can be seen some 150 years later: the great figures of world power at the summit equally oblivious to the changes circling around them while they try to construct a spurious top-down “stability”—just as the most changeful age in history crashes in. ❋ Derek Leebaert (2010)

Seeing the actual, changeful behavior of plants in his garden, he began to suspect — a hundred years before Darwin — that new species were somehow emerging. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Her eyes in the sunlight were the same green as water full of ribboned weed, dense and changeful. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2009)

I hear the tread of a horse — No — it was the changeful sound of the water rushing over the pebbles. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The changeful tide of mental spirits from misery to enjoyment, is not more rapid than the transition from personal danger to safety, in the elastic period of youth. ❋ Unknown (2008)

But the young see the present state of this changeful world more keenly than the old. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Daughter, how changeful and inscrutable is the nature of ❋ Unknown (2008)

VARIUM ET MUTABILE SEMPER FEMINA, woman is always variable and changeful. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Philipson, or the exiled Earl of Oxford, as we may now term him, distinguished in those changeful times by the steadiness with which he had always maintained his loyalty to the line of Lancaster, saw the imprudence of indulging his sovereign in her weakness. ❋ Unknown (2008)