fugacious

• “While Clinton's supporters abandon her, her campaign points to fugacious polls – which should the super delegates pay attantion to??”

  Clinton adviser makes superdelegate pitch

• “There are no shortage of people who are saying that today's 3.5 percent GDP number is all because of U.S. government stimulus and it won't last -- this might be a fugacious recovery -- here today, gone tomorrow, very short-lived.”

  CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2009

• “Nikki and I had our heads blown away by the epiphanies triggered by Carl's thoughts - effects that will not be fugacious in the least, believe me.”

  Archive 2003-09-01

• “The shortness of the twilight frequently leaves the fugacious planet, Mercury, so seldom seen at the north, in distinct view.”

  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “Their happy day, however, is soon over; their fugacious petals shrivel in three or four days.”

  Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.

• “As soon as the stamens become exposed, the calyx falls, and in a short time -- a few hours -- the fugacious anthers disappear, to be followed only”

  Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.

• “So far, indeed, are the loyal persons composing this regiment from seeking to avoid the presence of their late owners, that they are now, one and all, working with remarkable industry to place themselves in a position to go in full and effective pursuit of their fugacious and traitorous proprietors.”

  History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens

• “Not only will the bloom of crowded plants be comparatively poor and brief, but by early and bold thinning the plants will become so robust, and cover such large spaces of ground with their ample leafage and well-developed flowers, as really to astonish people who think they know all about annuals, and who may have ventured after much ill-treatment to designate them 'fugacious and weedy.”

  The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition

• “Statues of the deities in Rome were nearly all coloured; and they received a fresh coat of vermilion -- which, although it was the hue of divinity, was extremely fugacious -- on anniversary occasions or in times of great national rejoicing.”

  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

• “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

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