The meeting is billed as a "getting-to-know-you" session for the pair who have only met "fleetingly" in the past. From Wordnik.com. [Lori's A.M. Buzz: Got an emergency?] Reference
She moistened her lips, glanced fleetingly at his. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
He looked down at her lowered head and smiled fleetingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Obedient Bride]
She looked up fleetingly to see the earl raise haughty eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
"Thank you," Arabella said, looking fleetingly up into his face. From Wordnik.com. [The Obedient Bride]
"I shall sleep …" said Humilis, and faintly and fleetingly smiled. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
Ross wondered fleetingly why the other had not made sure of him earlier. From Wordnik.com. [The Time Traders] Reference
Pollack was fleetingly surprised: maybe the FUS project actually worked. From Wordnik.com. [True Names]
"I don't think that will bother you much now," she whispered, fleetingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Colors of Space] Reference
They smiled fleetingly at each other again, and then she resumed her work. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
He smiled fleetingly, revealing the hollow pointed fangs of a blood eater. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Illusion]
Penny blinked, thought back, fleetingly gave thanks as her temper sparked. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of His Own]
Latzi, her Polish boyfriend in the music business, I remembered fleetingly. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
So she thought fleetingly, then stared about, her concern for other things. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
I wondered fleetingly if Perkin, as a father, would be jealous of his child. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
She smiled fleetingly at them both before continuing on her way to the abbey. From Wordnik.com. [One Night for Love]
Another pause, in which Maxie fleetingly shared his bewilderment with Spider. From Wordnik.com. [the mission song]
Instead, his lips lifted; bending his head, he touched them fleetingly to hers. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
It was completely false, though, to feel this way, however fleetingly, with Matt. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
Arkady thought fleetingly of Zhenya, but the boy could hardly have been called family. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
She could feel his arousal and thought fleetingly about giving him the obvious answer. From Wordnik.com. [Captivated by the Tycoon]
Thompson mentioned social issues only fleetingly and only, it seemed, because he had to. From Wordnik.com. [Backstage at the Fred Thompson Show] Reference
Then Arethusa suddenly leaned close to the mirrored figure and kissed its face fleetingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
He was fleetingly aware of memos written and edited, reports hauled in and out of storage. From Wordnik.com. [True Names]
Mike saw the figure -- dimly, fleetingly, obscured most of the time by the driving whiteness. From Wordnik.com. [Unwise Child] Reference
A thought that had fleetingly occurred to Simon before now formed itself solidly in his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Diogenes took a step back, a frown passing fleetingly over his face before neutrality returned. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
(The movie acknowledges that colonialism is bad -- but only fleetingly, so you don't root for the lions.). From Wordnik.com. [Please Don't Feed The Lions] Reference
It occurred to him, fleetingly, that their idea of a "worthy" trait probably differed widely from his own. From Wordnik.com. [Natives of Space]
She wondered fleetingly if they had known about her and Kenneth, if he had ever told them anything about her. From Wordnik.com. [Unforgiven]
His face assumed grave lines, and that too, Soldier's Boy fleetingly glimpsed, was a part of his endless dance. From Wordnik.com. [Renegade's Magic]
Even Richard's girlfriend, Marge (Kaytie Morris), fails to bring him down, expressing her misgivings only fleetingly. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Miller shines as 'Talented Mr. Ripley' at Round House Theatre] Reference
When she finally reaches another dancer, their cheeks touch fleetingly before an invisible force pulls them apart again. From Wordnik.com. [Against All Odds] Reference
I have glimpsed it fleetingly in the shreds and scraps of dreams that slip away with the dawn — evanescent, like life itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Unhappiness] Reference
To them, he was now foreign, a middle-aged man who had already buried more in his life than they'd fleetingly fathomed to birth. From Wordnik.com. [Check Engine Light] Reference
But most of what we do with the new tools reaches the unconvinced only fleetingly, and in a way that's often too peripheral to engage them. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Loeb: The Seductions Of Clicking: How The Internet Can Make It Harder To Act ('Soul Of A Citizen')] Reference
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