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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Variable

Variable as a shadow.
—Anonymous

Variable as color.
—C. C. Colton

Variable as the weather.
—James Anthony Froude

Variable as flickering flames.
—James Montgomery

O, woman!… variable as the shade,
By the light quivering aspen made.
—Sir Walter Scott