evanishing

'I have no wish to be cruel,' she responded, softly enough; 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.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

In the deepest reflection, all that we call external is only the material basis upon which our dreams are built; and the sleep that surrounds life swallows up life, -- all but a dim wreck of matter, floating this way and that, and forever evanishing from sight.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

Except in scenes and sentiments of pathos, where she had lost nothing, the last, fine, evanishing tints, the delicate aroma of the character, were wanting in her personation.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various

Fortune, goddess evanishing and coy, was with him for once.

Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

But good fortune continued a wavering, evanishing thing.

Foes Mary Johnston 1903

No man, no poet assuredly, could love as Browning loved, and fail to be aware, often with vague anger and bitterness, no doubt, of this insuperable isolation even when spirit seemed to leap to spirit, in the touch of a kiss, in the evanishing sigh of some one or other exquisite moment.

Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

The Icelanders say there is a land where all the rainbows that have ever been, or are yet to be, forever drift to and fro, evanishing and reappearing, like immortal flowers of vapour.

Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

This assuredly was not the girl who had run the Carillon Rapids, for that adventuress was full of a vital force like a man's, and this girl had the evanishing charm of a dryad.

The World for Sale, Volume 1. Gilbert Parker 1897

This assuredly was not the girl who had run the Carillon Rapids, for that adventuress was full of a vital force like a man's, and this girl had the evanishing charm of a dryad.

The World for Sale, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

They have a fascination for alert minds, and they have not infrequent ramifications which are worth pursuing for the glimpses afforded into an always evanishing Promised Land.

Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897