fugitiveness

When we were actually on the run we inoculated ourselves from fear and called our fugitiveness “the Joke” — Have you told your new boyfriend the Joke?

Weather Underground Redux 2006

When we were actually on the run we inoculated ourselves from fear and called our fugitiveness “the Joke” — Have you told your new boyfriend the Joke?

April « 2006 « Bill Ayers 2006

He preached at Baalbec on the fugitiveness of human life, on faith, love, and rest in God.

The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2 Various

Want of attention to the unceasing mutability of all chemical substances, as well as to their reciprocal actions, has occasioned those changes of colour to be ascribed to fugitiveness of the pigment, which belong to the affinities of other substances with which it has been improperly mixed and applied.

Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field

In the tea-room fugitiveness is suggested in the thatched roof, frailty in the slender pillars, lightness in the bamboo support, apparent carelessness in the use of commonplace materials.

The Book of Tea Okakura, Kakuzo, 1862-1913 1906

My little congregation had all the fluttering fugitiveness of the investor-out-for-quick profits, and after a few generalities, I got down to the one question they all longed to ask but none dared to voice -- "What can I sell my subscription for if I want to part with it?"

Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Thomas William Lawson 1891

In the tea-room fugitiveness is suggested in the thatched roof, frailty in the slender pillars, lightness in the bamboo support, apparent carelessness in the use of commonplace materials.

The Book of Tea Kakuzo Okakura 1888

Salts of Divers Vegetables; and accordingly I have suspected that most of these volatile Salts, having so great a Resemblance in smell, in tast, and fugitiveness, differ but little, if at all, in their

The Sceptical Chymist or Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes, Touching the Spagyrist's Principles Commonly call'd Hypostatical; As they are wont to be Propos'd and Defended by the Generality of Alchymists. Whereunto is præmis'd Part of another Discourse relating to the same Subject. Robert Boyle 1659

"But, my dear, it's just the fugitiveness of mortal caring that makes it so exquisite!

The Glimpses of the Moon 1922