Happy had fancied him, that he realized, but he had thought of it as a phase through which she would pass with only such a scar as ephemeral affairs leave--one of quick healing.
Chance had made him a scrap in a pattern of ephemeral interest, and to him it seemed that one man in three carried an afternoon paper in his pocket with his own hasty albeit recognizable portrait starkly displayed to the public gaze.
All things are the same, familiar in experience, and ephemeral in time, and worthless in the matter.
To conclude, always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are, and what was yesterday a little mucus, to-morrow will be a mummy or ashes.
He took occasion to rebuke his hearers for thronging to hear about an ephemeral novelty, while for the much more wonderful and important truths about the permanent stars and facts of nature they had but deaf ears.
Butterfly, fluttering past us like a winged flower, reminds us that now come forth that ephemeral race whose lives are scarcely of longer date than those of the flowers on whose aroma they feed.
No doubt the stinging, little, ephemeral insects will come out in swarms to buzz and fly-blow in the sunshine.
The novel is, of its very essence, the most ephemeral style of literature, since it deals with the ever-shifting pictures of its time.
A little earnestness and endeavor is encumbent upon you, so that the pages of the soul may be cleansed and purified from the rust of attachment to this ephemeral world.
Pure ideas, type-ideas, according to Plato, constitute the intelligible Cosmos of which material phenomena are but the unreal and ephemeral shadows.
The sun comes forth, and many reptiles spawn: He sets, and each ephemeral insect then Is gathered into death without a dawn, And the immortal stars awake again.
The sun comes forth, and many reptiles spawn; He sets, and each ephemeral insect then Is gathered into death.
He is related to these ephemeralaffairs as an immortal being is to a mortal, and his interests to theirs as infinite to finite.
If one turns from contemplating the course of the world at large, and in particular from the ephemeral and mock existence of men as they follow each other in rapid succession, to the detail of life, how like a comedy it seems!
A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies.
Anything lasting but a day, or a brief time; an ephemeral plant, insect, etc.
Yet all education is vain, all intellectual development is of little benefit, all civilization hollow in its nature and ephemeral in its duration which lacks the moral element.
As is usual with bright natures, the deity that lies ignominiously chained within an ephemeral human carcase shone out of him like a ray.
These tinctured the silent bosom of the clouds above them and lit up their ephemeral caves, which seemed thenceforth to become scalding caldrons.
Extending our consideration, we are brought face to face with another very important fact, namely, that a large proportion of the human race content themselves with ephemeral structures.
He was no ignorant, careless scribbler, tossing into the ephemeral columns of the press hasty rhymes of which he never thought again.
South American herb, widely cultivated for its showy crimson, scarlet, yellow, or white, ephemeral blossoms.
And that is why I have put the point, modern and ephemeral as it is, among the general causes of trouble.
The long story of our race between the Roman occupation of Judaea and the modern local and ephemeral industrial phase of the great modern towns is not divided into two chapters, the strange past and the comprehensible present.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ephemeral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
