He just barely heard a faint clank and scrape, and when he glanced down, there was the silver dinner-tray, with a chill moist handprint rapidly evanescing from its lid.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

It is dangerous to sculpture these evanescing images of thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Men] Reference

Those sciences reveal types of life evanescing into each other by inexpressible refinements of change.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciations, with an Essay on Style] Reference

Nothing else has that definite indefiniteness, that melting permanence, that evanescing changelessness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gala-days] Reference

You risk rain by coming in winter, but even as grey clouds gather overhead, mists twirl like evanescing ghosts in the redwoods.    From Wordnik.com.  [CANOE Travel Features] Reference

And the tints of the two vast Shapes that shattered the rim of the light shifted as if evanescing, -- shifted like tones of West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

Monet's model stands atop a grassy bank against the sky, her face in the shadow of her parasol, her white-dressed body evanescing into light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

It is a sufficient proof of the extreme delicacy of this element, evanescing before any but the most sympathetic vision, that it has so seldom been employed in the drama and in novels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncollected Prose] Reference

Yet she was sometimes actually to be encountered at the head of the stairs from the kitchen, or evanescing from the parlor; and somehow the house was operated; the meals came and went, and the smell of their coming and going filled the hall-way from the ground floor to the attic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coast of Bohemia] Reference

By one and all it is assumed, in the words of Plato, that to be colourless, formless, impalpable is the note of the superior grade of knowledge and existence, evanescing steadily, as one ascends towards that perfect (perhaps not quite attainable) condition of either, which in truth can only be attained by the suppression of all the rule and outline of one's own actual experience and thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato and Platonism] Reference

Granny in a cardigan that's fading slowly evanescing hands before her on the table lost in warm grey reflection, rocking snowflakes in hair’s cradle eye-sockets full of snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-07-01] Reference

While yearning intermittently toward the evanescing party of his father ” the Wall Street internationalist party of paternalistic 'Wise Men' ” he rose with the surging Goldwater party, to which his fortunes have been hostage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hostage] Reference

A much more modern town -- newer even than that so graphically pictured by our old friend Monsieur de Gaspé -- the Quebec of our boyhood -- of our youth -- the Quebec embalmed in the haunted chambers of memory prior to 1837 -- it also each day seems retreating -- crumbling -- evanescing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference