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• My pictures are more fluid illustrations's attempts of fugacious phantasms that transitory illustrations's research of a reality which Animals, Plants, and Nature "Natures Natural textures" Photography Contest! —  Popular in the last 8 hours
• The sample which came under our notice contained a quantity of free sulphur It is to be regretted that these lemon cadmiums are fugacious, so bright, so clear, are they, and of so pure a lemon tint can they be obtained. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• In mingling primary with primary, if one colour does not compound well with the other, or is fugacious, the result is failure; but a secondary is not so easily affected by admixture: a green, for example, is seldom quite ruined by the injudicious addition of blue or yellow; and even if either of the latter be fugitive, the green will remain a green if originally durable. —  Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• A faint, wavering, unsteady light. fugacious adj. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
• No more oysters at Downing's, no more terrapins at Florence's, no more fugacious banquets at the Astor House. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847

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