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Secondly, that the materials being very transitory , have suffered much from inclemencies of air, especially in these north-west regions.

Quite unconscious of the demonstrations of their amorous neighbour, or their effects upon the susceptible bosom of her mama, Kate Nickleby had, by this time, begun to enjoy a settled feeling of tranquillity and happiness, to which, even in occasional and transitory glimpses, she had long been a stranger.

For a moment she paused by the taxi-stand and watched them--wondering that but a few years before she had been of their number, ever setting out for a radiant Somewhere, always just about to have that ultimate passionate adventure for which the girls' cloaks were delicate and beautifully furred, for which their cheeks were painted and their hearts higher than the transitory dome of pleasure that would engulf them, coiffure, cloak, and all.

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The sea was each little bird's great playmate. . . . In their airy flutterings, they seemed to rest on the evanescent spray.

. . . making the ideal of my foolish girlhood seem as unsubstantial and evanescent as a dream in the glowing noontide.

In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent .

Her face too was fresh in colour, but it was of a totally different quality—soft and evanescent , like the light under a heap of rose-petals.

While he was speaking the hands on the face of the clock behind the great man's back—a heavy, glistening affair of massive scrolls in the same dark marble as the mantelpiece, and with a ghostly, evanescent tick—had moved through the space of seven minutes.

And I was pale, and clear, and evanescent , like the light, and they were dark, and close, and constant, like the shadow.