"Fleeting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... together along the mossy, winding path. A fleeting shower was falling, and the patter of it ...
— The Knave of Diamonds • Ethel May Dell
... were twice as fleeting, Longeth she for one last greeting; If her eyes might only dwell Once on his, ...
— Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse • Richard Doddridge Blackmore
... not, thou man of herbs, a fault, To add a double quantity of salt. And, lastly, o'er the flavored compound toss A magic soup-spoon of anchovy sauce. Oh, green and glorious! Oh, herbaceous treat! 'Twould tempt the dying anchorite to eat; Back to the world he'd turn his fleeting soul, And plunge his fingers in the salad bowl! Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate can not harm me, ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... his mind still half full of fleeting thought. Absent-mindedly he knocked out his pipe and pocketed it, swung around to the manual of the televisor. His fingers reached ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak
... perhaps she could never do with complete success or satisfaction; and like promise of nectar to thirsty lips was the vision of joys she had had to put aside for the performance of dull daily duty. How brief, how fleeting, had been those splendid visions when the universe seemed open for her young strength to battle and triumph in! How soon they had faded into the light of common day! At first, sympathy and grief were so keen she thought ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin
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