Fleeting

Examples

• The thought was fleeting; for his attention was instantly drawn towards the inhabitant of this wretched abode. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was impossible to help fleeting visions of another kind--new dignities and an acknowledged value of which she had often felt the absence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Volley after volley they vomited upon the temple guards; volley on volley crashed through the thin air toward the fleeting and illusive fliers. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• He tried to scramble up the side of the cabin, and succeeded in catching a fleeting hold upon the thatched roof. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• He, too, had caught a fleeting backward glimpse of cruel yellow eyes and half open mouth within startling proximity of his person. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• This fleeting glimpse of her past served to emphasize the sense of aimlessness with which Lily at length turned toward home. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I caught a fleeting grin passing across the features of the black as he heard her words. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We stepped, as it were, right out of the carriage and into the hall, so that I failed to catch the most fleeting glance of the front of the house. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• At last he saw it, the thing the little monkeys so feared--the man-brute of which the Claytons had caught occasional fleeting glimpses. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Were it not for the help of words we should be dependent, like the lower animals, on the fleeting images of things. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• What faces are the most distinct to me in the fleeting crowd? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Born with the ear attuned to music and the eye to observe beauty, the hand of Art was to trace and make permanent the fleeting forms which melody and the eye impressed upon the soul of man. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Caliphronas had a fleeting smile on his lips as he said this, but looked so dangerous that Crispin touched Maurice on the arm. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Even the fleeting wind has been harnessed by man, and, as in the windmill, made to work for him (Fig. 119). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Indeed there was softness in her whole deportment--in her face, in her voice; but there was also reserve, and an air fleeting, evanishing, intangible. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Christine