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Ephemera

noun
(pl. ephemerae, ephemeras)
1.
Something transitory; lasting a day.



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"Ephemera" Quotes from Famous Books



... and mute ephemera, Doubt not, have their songs too, could we hear. Every raindrop is a sea sonorous As the great worlds ...
— Behind the Arras - A Book of the Unseen • Bliss Carman
... eastern sky might have been seen a pale fan of light, vague as the wing of an ephemera. It vanished ...
— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole
... of the law for instance formed but a part of his great preparation. The science of the law, not its practice, excited his enthusiasm. He turned instinctively from the technicalities, the tergiversations, the gladiatorial display and contention of the legal profession. To him they were but the ephemera of the long summertide of jurisprudence. He thirsted for the permanent, the ever living springs and principles of the law. Grotius and Pothier and Mansfield and Blackstone and Marshall and Story were ...
— Charles Sumner Centenary - The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 14 • Archibald H. Grimke


Words linked to "Ephemera" :   time, ephemeral


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