It was a fugacious love affair. From LearnThat.org.
By some it has been called durable, by others branded as fugacious. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Their happy day, however, is soon over; their fugacious petals shrivel in three or four days. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
Generally speaking, it is more beautiful than durable, and is often decidedly fugacious, fading on exposure. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
No more oysters at Downing's, no more terrapins at Florence's, no more fugacious banquets at the Astor House. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
The shortness of the twilight frequently leaves the fugacious planet, Mercury, so seldom seen at the north, in distinct view. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
While Clinton's supporters abandon her, her campaign points to fugacious polls – which should the super delegates pay attantion to??. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton adviser makes superdelegate pitch] Reference
You are too skilful a financier ever to have invested a single dollar in that fugacious wealth which so often takes to its legs and runs away. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 74, December, 1863] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2003-09-01] Reference
For example, a colour known to be fugacious may last, in certain cases, a surprisingly long time; while, on the contrary, a pigment permanent when used alone, may be rendered fugitive by improper compounding. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
This fugacious character of the Anemone is perpetuated in. From Wordnik.com. [The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare] Reference
Nobody, it appeared, was alert enough to espy that fugacious shadow on the fire-ladder. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Days An Extravaganza] Reference
Honours and dignities are transient, beauty and riches frail and fugacious, to a proverb. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Various Subjects Principally Designed for Young Ladies] Reference
The reporters made what they could of it, but, divested of padding, the action was sadly fugacious. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
In 1581 the Parliament prohibited its use "because the colours produced from it were of a fugacious character.". From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
The wealth acquired by speculation and plunder, is fugacious in its nature, and fills society with the spirit of gambling. From Wordnik.com. [The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)] Reference
Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Million] Reference
Comfortably ensconced in his arm-chair, the colonel seemed to offer the hope of a less fugacious attention, and Monsieur de Trailles resumed. From Wordnik.com. [The Deputy of Arcis] Reference
In one particular their good taste might have been disputed; but the Creole allowed himself that one feather in the cap of his fugacious splendour. From Wordnik.com. [Roads of Destiny] Reference
Their voices, too, are heard as a fugacious part in the dirge which is ever played along the shore for those mariners who have been lost in the deep since first it was created. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod] Reference
If I were to tell what is passing in my mind, I should say that every one was specked which he had handled; for he rubs off all the bloom, and those fugacious ethereal qualities leave it. From Wordnik.com. [Excursions] Reference
The lesions are soft or firm, reddish or pinkish-white, with the peripheral portion of a bright red color, and are fugacious in character, disappearing and reappearing in the most capricious manner. From Wordnik.com. [Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine] Reference
Boito treats the interview in what he calls a Dramatic Interlude, which gives way to the third movement, a Vocal Scherzo, starting off with a chorus of Cherubim, who sing in fugacious thirds and droning dactyls. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music] Reference
The woods of Canada, as well as of other parts of North-America, produce this plant in abundance with us it flowers in the beginning of April: its blossoms are fugacious, and fully expand only in fine warm weather. From Wordnik.com. [The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 5 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed] Reference
Hey fugacious. nah the ads haven't made any money so far. From Wordnik.com. [Red Lobster's Seafood Chili Recipe] Reference
"A beautiful fish, bright green back, otherwise bright orange-red, fins stained with black colours; fugacious. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
"I am a Bengali, and, as such, profusely endowed with the fugacious instinct, and yet, shall I quake in appalling consternation if a mouse is to invade my vicinity?. From Wordnik.com. [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference
But this suggestion is tenuous and fugacious, and. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
A faint, wavering, unsteady light. fugacious adj. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
11. fugacious. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
fugacious said. From Wordnik.com. [Red Lobster's Seafood Chili Recipe] Reference
"" when fugacious, 92. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
"fugacious" after reading that post?. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier's Perspective] Reference
fugacious flighty pyrotechnics ....... fireworks analphabetic illiterate unlettered apocalypse revelation ....... diaphanous transparent see-through. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 2] Reference
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