82 examples of flighty in sentences

IX The world knows how Charteris was killed in Fairhaven by Jasper Hardressthe husband of "that flighty Mrs. Hardress" Anne had spoken of.

When Miss POTTS and Mr. SIMPSON rejoined Mr. DIBBLE, in the office of the latter, across the street, it was decided that the flighty young girl should be made less expensive to her friends by temporary accommodation in an economical boarding-house, and that the Gospeler, returning to Bumsteadville, should persuade Miss CAROWTHERS to come and stay with her until the time for the reopening of the Macassar Female College.

Vain and flighty to a degree, and, like most vain people, rather shallow, Wilhelm II has supposed himself to be a second and greater Bismarck, destined by Providence to create the said Teutonic world-empire.

There was some paralysis on his will, that, when he met men on common terms, he spoke weakly, and from the point, like a flighty girl.

With her, however, were Alexandre, whose companionship was rather dull, and his younger sister, Seraphine, a big, vicious, and flighty girl of eighteen, who, as it happened, soon left the house amid a frightful scandalan elopement with a certain Baron Lowicz, a genuine baron, but a swindler and forger, to whom it became necessary to marry her.

At first she thought it was a mere flighty resolution, that would not hold long; and even when she was made to understand that it was unshaken, she looked at the achievement as impossible; for at that time the prices for lace-work were falling, in consequence of the recent introduction of machinery.

Some always pretended to doubt the reality of it, and insisted that Rip had been out of his head, and that this was one point on which he always remained flighty.

And in my opinion, a sober-minded woman like you who will see to his comfort and be faithful to him is more likely to make him happy than any of your headlong, flighty girls.

He was a good-tempered fellow, and not without wit, but so very thoughtless and flighty that people looked upon him as being rather weak-minded.

' All this was an utter surprise, and a saddening one; for I had grown to feel much interest in the girl, and had been especially pleased by all absence of the flighty tendencies with which too many girls in public service tempt men to their own destruction.

If it be true that the Baroness [Waldstädten] did the same, still it is quite another thing, because she is a passée elderly woman (who cannot possibly any longer charm), and is always rather flighty.

How can you talk so light and flighty of death before God's Judgment-seat?

Yet he was fitful, anxious, and flighty, as if he knew not where to go, or what to do.

There was a strange, inflamed, flurried, flighty recklessness of activity about him.

After a few words touching his qualifications, I engaged him, glad to have among my corps of copyists a man of so singularly sedate an aspect, which I thought might operate beneficially upon the flighty temper of Turkey, and the fiery one of Nippers.

There seemed to be little sympathy between mother and daughter; the widow had been flighty in a dingy fashion, and her marriage with her chief lodger Chaffery had led to unforgettable sayings.

My mother was so set back by the feather thing that she had round her neck that she called her Miss Calder instead of Edie, until my cousin in her pretty flighty way would lift her forefinger to her whenever she did it.

You are not in the least flighty, and would never sacrifice important affairs for mere sentimentality.

Aeschylus is not altogether unworthy of his reputation; he is sometimes grand, but oftener flighty and obscure.

No, it's just the flighty ones that gie the rest a bad name

They're flighty.

He said something which showed his mind was wandering and he had become flighty.

One night I had sat late talking to the Little Playmate, who was now growing a great maid and a beautifulnone like her, so far as I could see, in all the city of Thorna circumstance which made me more ready to be of Michael Texel's opinion with regard to any flighty and irresponsible courting of the maids of the town.

"II-" "How did you escape, Admiral Peters?" inquired the widow, turning from the flighty Burton in indignation.

" Her manner was indeed strange and flighty; and though she recurred to questions about the Ordination and the Bowaters, Julius perceived that she was forcing her attention to the answers as if trying to stave off his inquiries, and he came to closer quarters.

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