13 collocations for fleeting

So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again; Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.

Here they lived like the old Robin Hood of England, and to this forest many noble youths daily resorted from the court, and did fleet the time carelessly, as they did who lived in the golden age.

He had seen Constance with as fleeting a glimpse as hers had been of him.

In the garden of the inn, or somewhere near by, he found a spot of shade, and there, pipe in mouth, was content to fleet the hours as they did in the golden age.

But woe betide the silly dairymaids, For I shall fleet their cream-bowls night by night.

The May-time flew for men; The morning rose ungreeted From ocean's joyless breast; Unhail'd the evening fleeted To ocean's joyless breast Wild through the tangled shade, By clouded moons they stray'd, The iron race of Men!

Scared at the mother's cry, as fleets a dream, Both Child and Fairy melt into the stream.

And far below him fleets the mighty Rhine, rich with the memories of two thousand stormy years; and on its further bank the grey-walled Coblentz town, and the long arches of the Moselle-bridge, and the rich flats of Kaiser Franz, and the long poplar-crested uplands, which look so gay, and are so stern; for everywhere between the poplar-stems the saw-toothed outline of the western forts cuts the blue sky.

Robin looked after them, laughing, and thought that never had he seen so fleet a runner as the Lame man; but neither of the beggars stopped nor turned around, for each felt in his mind the wind of Robin's cudgel about his ears.

O Hymen, Hymen fleet: Quick torch that makest one!... How?

From SUMMER (LIFE'S MEANING TO THE GENEROUS MIND) Forever running an enchanted round, Passes the day, deceitful vain and void, As fleets the vision o'er the formful brain, This moment hurrying wild th' impassioned soul, The nest in nothing lost.

If jealous foes Thy rights of commerce dare oppose, 10 Shall not thy fleets their rapine awe? Who is't prescribes the ocean law?

The thing may be seen over and over again in the course of a few minutes; it would be difficult for an artist to catch so fleeting an effect.

13 collocations for  fleeting