FLY-BY-NIGHT • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Fly-by-night

... godlet of transient sensation? No man who has ever loved a woman fully, as only human beings can love, through years of mutual care and labor, through sickness, age, and death, can honestly accept, as type of that long, strong, enduring Love, this small blind fly-by-night. ...

— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman

... a pelt is a pelt, prime or unprime, it makes no difference. So the killing goes merrily on where the free traders are—and soon all the fur-bearing animals are exterminated from that section. What does the free trader care? He loads his fly-by-night outfit into canoes or a York boat, and passes on to lay waste another section, leaving the poor Indians to face the rigours of the coming winter with ruined credit, cheap, inadequate clothing, cheap food, and worthless trinkets, and their ...

— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx