It was sunset when they came to Blair Water—a rosy sunset that flooded the long, sandy sea-coast with colour and brought red road and fir-darkened hill out in fleeting clearness of outline.
Kissing was not in the Tellwright blood, but she had a fleeting wish to hug the tyrant.
The whole world bloomed in a flush and tremor of maiden loveliness, instinct with all the evasive, fleeting charm of spring and girlhood and young morning.
To the right, it fell on the old house among the willows up the brook, and gave it for a fleeting space casements more splendid than those of an old cathedral.
It seemed to Anne, for a fleeting moment, that there was even a veiled hint of hostility in it.
Had he found in some corner of his brain a fleeting remembrance which recalled him to humanity?
These familiar flowers, these well-remembered bird-notes, this sky, with its fitful brightness, these furrowed and grassy fields, each with a sort of personality given to it by the capricious hedgerows,—such things as these are the mother-tongue of our imagination, the language that is laden with all the subtle, inextricable associations the fleeting hours of our childhood left behind them.
It was impossible to help fleeting visions of another kind—new dignities and an acknowledged value of which she had often felt the absence.
Seated in a famous arm-chair and in his best suit, constantly within sight of good cheer, he had a comfortable consciousness of being on the premises, mingled with fleeting suggestions of Sunday and the bar at the Green Man; and he informed Mary Garth that he should not go out of reach of his brother Peter while that poor fellow was above ground.
But the impression is fleeting, and serves only to give a greater acuteness to the enjoyment of the moment.
I had a fleeting glimpse of a pursuit of the ineffable.
I had a fleeting glimpse of a pursuit of the ineffable.
No; such things didn't make people happy, such fleeting things.
Only just when the sun is setting is there a fleeting moment of real colour.
Tom hinted at things he had to attend to; things that must be done; and time was fleeting.
Then a faint moan came sighing through the branches of the forest and the boys felt a fleeting breath upon their cheeks, and shuddered with the fancy that the Spirit of the Night had gone by.
( ) Art is long, and time is fleeting.
We take an emotion that's fleeting and make it a solid event, instead of something that passes through us.
We take an emotion that's fleeting and make it a solid event, instead of something that passes through us.
It is readily available, but fleeting.
