It was the sheer momentaneous life of the continent. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
The former leads to a durative-turned-present and the latter leads to a momentaneous-turned-past. From Wordnik.com. [New thought: A 2D matrix of eventive/non-eventive and subjective/objective] Reference
For the communication of light is momentaneous, and ceases at once on the removal of the original light. From Wordnik.com. [The New Organon] Reference
Do I want this curious transparent blood of the antipodes, with its momentaneous feelings, and its sort of ABSENTNESS?. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Lightning is a great flame, very bright, extending every way to a great distance, suddenly darting upwards, there ending, so that it is only momentaneous. From Wordnik.com. [The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience] Reference
Otherwise, it is difficult to reconcile the fact that the Island disappears when it moves, since if no cataclysmic event occurs after the time-travelers go to the past, all that should happen is momentaneous changes in the present state of things on the Island suddenly the Dharma Initiative re-appears because the Hostiles/Others Purge was avoided. From Wordnik.com. [Why the Island Disappears by Francisco] Reference
He existed a pure, unconnected will, stoical and momentaneous. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
To put on a coat is momentaneous, to wear a coat is resultative. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference
Or he might become just indifferent, purposeless, dissipated, momentaneous. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
She was an odd, sensitive, inflammable child, having her father's dark hair and quiet bearing, but being quite detached, momentaneous. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
These momentaneous progressions are also changes of state; for the subsequent adds something to the antecedent, which perfects the state. From Wordnik.com. [The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love] Reference
The distinction between fulguration and emanation is this: in the latter case the procession is historically defined and complete; in the former case it is momentaneous. From Wordnik.com. [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference
Thus our limited, uncertain, defective, fallible reason, is but a feeble and momentaneous inspiration of a primitive, supreme, and immutable reason, which communicates itself with measure, to all intelligent beings. From Wordnik.com. [The Existence of God] Reference
Just because he is young and new, you guys fail to get easily impressed by his physical action, but he is nothing new for moviemaking nor martial arts, and he will be another momentaneous product of b-series in action movies, because he has no talent nor charisma at all. From Wordnik.com. [Recently updated sites at Antville.org] Reference
Our cry is indefinite as to aspect, be crying is durative, cry out is momentaneous, burst into tears is inceptive, keep crying is continuative, start in crying is durative-inceptive, cry now and again is iterative, cry out every now and then or cry in fits and starts is momentaneous-iterative. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference
His attention and eager desire for knowledge stimulate new thought in the speaker day by day, hour by hour; and many a German scholar must have felt with Friedrich August Wolf, when he says, -- "I am one who has been long accustomed to the gentle charm which lies in the momentaneous unfolding of thought in the presence of attentive hearers, to that living reaction softly felt by the teacher, whereby a perennial mental harmony is awakened in his soul, which far surpasses the labors in the study, before blank walls and the feelingless paper.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
Gerald's clasp had been sudden and momentaneous. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
A warm, momentaneous grip of final love. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
Or, on this momentaneous stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Sacred Song] Reference
I say, for instance, within myself, through that inward, simple, and momentaneous word, "Let my body move, and it moves.". From Wordnik.com. [The Existence of God] Reference
A man of lively fancy no sooner finds a hint moving in his mind, than he makes momentaneous excursions to the press, and to the world, and, with a little encouragement from flattery, pushes forward into future ages, and prognosticates the honours to be paid him, when envy is extinct, and faction forgotten, and those, whom partiality now suffers to obscure him, shall have given way to the triflers of as short duration as themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Rambler, sections 1-54 (1750); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume I] Reference
It would be interesting to show what are the most typical noun-forming and verb-forming elements of group II; how variously nouns may be classified (by gender; personal and non-personal; animate and inanimate; by form; common and proper); how the concept of number is elaborated (singular and plural; singular, dual, and plural; singular, dual, trial, and plural; single, distributive, and collective); what tense distinctions may be made in verb or noun (the past, for instance, may be an indefinite past, immediate, remote, mythical, completed, prior); how delicately certain languages have developed the idea of aspect22 (momentaneous, durative, continuative, inceptive, cessative, durative-inceptive, iterative, momentaneous-iterative, durative-iterative, resultative, and still others); what modalities may be recognized (indicative, imperative, potential, dubitative, optative, negative, and a host of others23); what distinctions of person are possible (is we, for instance, conceived. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts] Reference
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