Common sense permits us to elude fear which always seizes those whose judgment vacillates; it removes the defiance of the Will and indicates infallibly the correct attitude to assume.
"Common Sense Subtitle: How To Exercise It"
Yoritomo-Tashi
He vacillates for a moment on seeing Crampton.
"You-Never-Can-Tell"
Shaw, Bernard
Not to speak of the confusion of moods and tenses, the phrase "to form a character" has been so long appropriated to another meaning than that which it has here, that the sense of the passage vacillates unpleasantly.
"The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays"
James Russell Lowell