evanescent

• Their flowers are fragile and evanescent, and their only pollinators are bees that make a honey so fine that sweet-toothed men and beasts have driven them almost to extinction. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 01 - July 2000
• It was no longer an ephemeral illusion of the night, evanescent, mystic, but a simple country girl coming to meet her lover. —  The Octopus : A story of California
• Its glories were evanescent, and on the third night the characters, who had moved amidst all the splendours of full summer, were straying under brown and withered autumn leaves There are few of us who have not discovered that the affability of a distinguished man may be amongst the most disagreeable of all human characteristics, though when one encounters the real thing which has its root in nature and not in policy it is certainly amongst the most delightful. —  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
• What man, did not Inconsiderateness deprive him of his senses, would chase baubles and pleasures--evanescent, surfeiting, foolish and disgraceful--and prefer them to peace of conscience_, and glorious everlasting happiness_? —  The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell
• The evanescent is as nothing before Him Who is the Ever-Abiding. —  Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era

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