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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Inconstant
 
  Inconstant as the wind.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Inconstant as the shadows we survey.
            —Samuel Boyse		  2
  Inconstant as the moon.
            —Samuel Butler		  3
Inconstant … like the veriest flower ’neath whose dream folds fair
Some poisonous germ lies brooding.
            —Michael Delevante		  4
  Inconstant as a ship with a broken helm.
            —Egyptian		  5
  More inconstant than the wind.
            —William Shakespeare		  6
  Inconstant as waves.
            —Tobias Smollett		  7
  Inconstant as the waving sea.
            —Earl of Stirling		  8
 
 
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