unfirm

I felt like my stomach had turned to Jell-O inside me, all quivery and unfirm.

SCANDAL

As far as supplying energy to the neighbouring countries is concerned this amounts to approximately 4% of the energy generated and most of this relates to “unfirm contractual” obligations, which means essentially that when the country experiences a shortage we very quickly stop electricity supplies to our neighbours.

Speech by the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Public Enterprises, Fatima Chohan, during the Joint Sitting Debate on National Electricity Challenges facing South Africa

Lack of expansion has also resulted in networks being overloaded and capacity becoming increasingly unfirm.

ANC Daily News Briefing

In dealing with the Soviet Union, in trying to analyze its objectives and capabilities, we continue to tread, as George Kennan wrote in his diary in 1950, “in the unfirm substance of the imponderables.”

Interpretations of American History

"The sway of earth _shook_ like a thing unfirm," thousands of houses crumbled to their base, tens of thousands of human beings were buried beneath ruins, or engulfed by the gaping ground.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847

The springiness might have gone out of his step, and to a certain extent the seat in the saddle was unfirm, and the strength and poise of the body showed signs of abatement, but the fire in the eyes was undimmed and every line of the features was instinct to a wonderful degree with life and vitality.

The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

Giddy and unfirm, our fancies are more, 75. and unseen, 89. paced times, 75.

Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

To shrink from the task would prove me cowardly and unfirm.

Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793

It is likewise necessary to observe, that all Fish which will keep a long time alive out of Water, will sicken, and their Flesh become unfirm by lying in the Air; therefore, if Fish are to be sent a Day's Journey, or kept a Day before they are used, kill them as soon as they are taken out of the Water, and the Flesh will be firm.

The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm

Job also: Daniel did wear the name of an idol god, and Paul freely confesseth himself unfirm.

Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02