He put on a sympathizing air. "You shall have peace. Dismiss _him_ as I tell you, and he will trouble you no more; shake hands with me, and say you prefer _him,_ and I will trouble you no more. But with two lovers, peace is out of the question, and so is self-respect. I know I could not vacillate between you and Mademoiselle Klosking or any other woman."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
Like Paul, his apostolic prototype, Greatheart sometimes vacillated just for a moment when he came a little too near heaven, and felt its magnificent and almost dissolving attractions full in his soul. You will see Greatheart's mind staggering for a moment between rest and labour, between war and peace, between "Christ" on earth and "Christ" in heaven--you will see all that set forth with great sympathy and great ability in Principal Rainy's new book on Paul's Epistle to the Philippians, and in the chapter entitled, The Apostle's Choice between Living and Dying.英文原著 · 《Bunyan Characters-2》
Still the sick man raved; but he talked to himself at longer intervals, and with longer pauses between his words;---his voice was growing more feeble, his speech more incoherent. His thought vacillated and distorted, like flame in a wind.英文原著 · 《Chita-A Memory of Last Island》
She vacillated, yielded, began to put on the wraps Stanley was collecting for her. It was a big touring- car, and they sat two and two, with the chauffeur alone. Keith was beside Mildred. When they were under way, she said:英文原著 · 《The Price She Paid》
He vacillates in his account of hypotheticals and disjunctives. His final opinion is given (Vol. II., 370-378 -- " Hypotheticals (conjunctive and disjunctive), April 30, 1849"). "These syllogisms appear to be only modifications or corruptions of certain immediate inferences, for they have only two terms, and obtain a third proposition only by placing the general rule of inference (stating, of course, the possible alternatives), disguised, it is true, as the major premises.英文原著 · 《The Scottish Philosophy》