mercurial

• I found when I went to Grand Rapids that the intermittent, remittent, and pernicious fevers, which prevailed in that place and in the surrounding country, were generally treated by the resident physicians with mercurial or other cathartic remedies, followed or accompanied by Quinine and brandy or fermented drinks containing Alcohol, and opiates where they were supposed to be necessary. —  Personal Experience of a Physician
• All the most chivalric feeling of that mercurial, but generous people, was called out by the sight of her frank and smiling face. —  Queen Victoria Her Girlhood And Womanhood
• The frivolous and the mercurial were not in Calvin's make-up. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
• Meanwhile Carl's character was forming, and he was becoming as brilliant as the mercurial life he was leading, and at the same time as irresponsible. —  The Love Affairs of Great Musicians
• You are too mercurial - you disclose all my emotions. —  Fantastic Fables

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