Evanescent

When weak or evanescent they were often reduced to a mere stroke without a stem.

He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality.

Isn’t that sort of beauty more beautiful than any other?” “And equally evanescent,” says the Master, “for small charities cannot this wicked world amend.

In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.

Crome had been a little incident, an evanescent bubble on the stream of his life; it belonged already to the past.

The ostent evanescent, The substance of an artist’s mood or savan’s studies long, Or warrior’s, martyr’s, hero’s toils, To fashion his eidólon.

What had been a place shut off, dedicated to God alone, Time had broken open to the Evanescent with its ministering winds and rain and sunlight; these entering into the worship taught worshippers how the two were one.

Saw also the Vernal and Nevada Falls, a truly glorious picture—rocky strength and permanence combined with beauty of plants frail and fine and evanescent; water descending in thunder, and the same water gliding through meadows and groves in gentlest beauty.