| 1. | Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Aught in him waver who well doth consider. - from Beowulf by |
| 3. | "That passion which more than all others caused you to waver on the path of virtue," said the Mason. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | All this would have caused the mind of a person who knew nothing of what was in preparation, to waver between a very sinister and a very simple idea. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 5. | Plato himself seems to waver between two opposite views--when, as in the third Book, he insists that youth should be brought up amid wholesome imagery and again in Book X, when he banishes the poets from his Republic. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 6. | In the Republic, as elsewhere, he wavers between the original soul which has to be restored, and the character which is developed by training and education... - from The Republic by Plato |
| 7. | The same struggle between head and heart, between reason and intuition, goes on to-day, and that is one reason why Arnold's poetry, which wavers on the borderland between doubt and faith, is a favorite with many readers. - from English Literature by William J. Long |