I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem.
The fact is, after my conflict with and victory over Mrs. Reed, I was not disposed to care much for the nursemaid's transitory anger; and I was disposed to bask in her youthful lightness of heart.
He now barely vegetated; though there were still transitorygleams flashing by fits from the embers of his ancient intellect.
This lady was not personally known to Kant; but she was greatly delighted with his little present, and still keeps the rose as a frail memorial of her transitory interview with the great philosopher.
And the reasons are these: First, Because it would have degraded his mission, by lowering it to the base level of a collision with human curiosity, or with petty and transitory interests.
But this action is here complex; it is found combined with a new force, whose effects constitute precisely the profound difference which exists between the massive mineral framework of the globe and the transitory beings peopling its surface.
For my part, I must acknowledge that, whether the Ocypete rubra is or is not the transitory state of a more perfect animal, I do not know.
As before said, it is the existence of such facts as we have in stars of transitory brightness, and the above named evidence of an arctic climate existing in what are now genial climates, that renders some adequate cause to be looked for.
I observed the remarkable phenomena of the variable and some times transitory brightness of the stars.
Preserving their Asiatic language and Moslem faith, they have remained in southeastern Europe, not a transitory scourge, but an abiding oppressor of Christian lands.
Serfdom, however, was destined to be merely a transitory condition.
The designer of cheap patterns is no more inevitably ridden by the flower than is the vain and transitory author by the phrase.
For the transitory material they keep the more purely pictorial art of landscape.
Fierce and exciting visions come across the soul in such a paroxysm; and in the intensity of its stimulated perceptions, it gazes down into the abysses of nature, with a profound though transitory quickness of penetration.
Frail and transitory as is every part of it, restless and migratory as are its elements, never ceasing as are its changes, 5 still it abides.
To be aware of him is to be aware of everything in the world, mortality and immortality, the transitory and the eternal.
By means of sinking down into the transitory and the ephemeral, by means of moulding chance and accident to its will, it is enabled to touch the eternal and the eternally fatal.
The art of life according to the revelation of the complex vision, consists in giving to the transitory the form of the eternal.
In our momentary and transitory movement of the complex vision we are permitted to pass across the ultimate threshold.
Either they are immediately directed toward the maintenance and development of the body, or they effect transitory changes in the relative positions of parts of the body, or they tend toward the continuance of the species.
Speech, gesture, and every other form of human action are, in the long run, resolvable into muscular contraction, and muscular contraction is but a transitory change in the relative positions of the parts of a muscle.
He had a transitoryidea that these cylinders might be books, or a modern substitute for books, but at first it did not seem so.
On his way to the markets Graham had a transitory glance of a long narrow white-walled room in which men in the universal blue canvas were carrying covered things like biers, and about which men in medical purple hurried to and fro.
One short moment oftransitory joy--a point in the wide eternity of thought!
So saying, he held the paper to the lamp, and, notwithstanding the ineffectual efforts of Sterling to prevent it, continued so to hold it until a few transitory sparks were all that remained of Henry Travers's inheritance.
Here man is free as he ought to be; nor is this pleasing equality so transitory as many others are.
His politics were always those of a poet, circling in the larger orbit of causes and principles, careless of the transitory oscillation of events.
His gossiping report of what he saw and heard gives as good an inside view of the transitory species of Associations as any we find in his collections.
The only conclusion we can come to is, that some of the most important experiences of the transitory Communities have not been surrendered to history.
Many of the transitory Associations, it will be seen, "made no sign" when they died.
The one feature which distinguishes these Communities from the transitory sort, is their religion; which in every case is of the earnest kind which comes by recognized afflatus, and controls all external arrangements.
Whoso hopeth reward and maketh to flourish the root of goodness, shall remain in the transitory Paradise, for though he be a good man, yet hath he a doubting heart.
The true Doctrine teacheth men that they may become Buddhas in reciting the Holy Name, and so therefore is it that all other faiths and moralities are but transitory doorways unto the Truth.
For the transitory teachings have let and hindered men in the Way of Enlightenment so that they must needs pass through the long weariness of births and deaths.
The simplest and most transitory material thus serves to form the symbol of temporal power.
As a typical example we may take a sentence from the Spanish bishop Isidor who died in 636: "Good are the intentions directed towards God and bad are those directed to earthly gain or transitory fame.
And the coppice pooled the shadows, creating a hippodrome of transitory caricatures, fanciful, grotesque and fearful.
Defn: In a transitory manner; with brief continuance.
Here's that windy applause, that poor, transitory pleasure, for which I was dishonored.
The zoögloea is characteristic of a transitory stage through which rapidly multiplying bacteria pass in the course of their evolution.
It was not the transitory light of a comet, which shines and glows for a wile, and then .
Comfort and succor all those who, in this transitory life, are in trouble.
Defn: A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.
Pope If [we love] transitory things, which soon decay, Age must be loveliest at the latest day.
