Coleridge, in reading your "Religious Musings," I felt a transient superiority over you.

She listened to it as it shrieked about the slabs and boulders of granite; the sound was indescribably eerie, filled with unrest, eloquent of the brutal contempt of the eternal for the feeble and transient.

So she was; and Ham and Miranda left Grantley next morning, after a very early breakfast; and, when the regular boarders came to theirs, they might have guessed at once that the "transient guests" had gone.

If Time hung heavy upon me, I could walk it away; but I do not walk all day long, as I used to do in those old transient holidays, thirty miles a day, to make the most of them.

But the fashion of jokes, with all other things, passes away; as did the transient mode which had so favoured us.

165. See ante, ii. 81, where he hoped that 'this gloom of infidelity was only a transient cloud.

" Joe's first impulse was to say that he knew of no job, or else to refer his accoster to the head canvas man, who hired transient help in putting up the main top and in pulling or driving stakes.

The mosquito does not originate the malarial infection; it simply serves as the temporary host of the micro-organism (Plasmodium malarioe) which is the cause of the disease, having obtained its transient "guest" from some human being.

And yet also with more than that, for when she dwelt on his glance, she had a slight transient feeling of faintness which came and went in a second, and which she did not analyseand could not have analysed.

But Hilda surveyed her with secret envy, transient yet real.

Sometimes when discreetly abolishing some old-fashioned, work-increasing method of her mother's, she would speak to Florrie in a tone of sudden, transient intimacy, raising her for a moment to the rank of an intellectual equal as her voice hinted that her mother after all belonged to the effete generation.

velocity &c 274; suddenness &c 113; changeableness &c 149. transient, transient boarder, transient guest [U.S.].

velocity &c 274; suddenness &c 113; changeableness &c 149. transient, transient boarder, transient guest [U.S.].

velocity &c 274; suddenness &c 113; changeableness &c 149. transient, transient boarder, transient guest [U.S.].

V. be transient &c adj.; flit, pass away, fly, gallop, vanish, fade, evaporate; pass away like a cloud, pass away like a summer cloud, pass away like a shadow, pass away like a dream.

unstaid^, inconstant; unsteady, unstable, unfixed, unsettled; fluctuating &c v.; restless; agitated &c 315; erratic, fickle; irresolute &c 605; capricious &c 608; touch and go; inconsonant, fitful, spasmodic; vibratory; vagrant, wayward; desultory; afloat; alternating; alterable, plastic, mobile; transient &c 111; wavering.

[Spaniards transient.]

Half a dozen small tables stood down each side; four larger ones occupied the centre of the floor, and were reserved for transient custom.

In winter, transient visitors but rarely occupied one or other of the square centre tables, though not infrequently a proud father and mother who had come to visit a soldier son at the barracks, brought him to the hotel for a meal, and for a space the radiance of blue and scarlet and the glint of steel cast a military glamour over the staid company.

Pleasure, in itself harmless, may become mischievous, by endearing to us a state which we know to be transient and probatory, and withdrawing our thoughts from that, of which every hour brings us nearer to the beginning, and of which no length of time will bring us to the end.

Because tyranny and injustice are in their very nature transient, they are opposed to the moral order of the universe and, in the end, must pass.

XV DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION All just government is a transient device to make ordered progress possible.

O might a transient spark of genius fire The fond effusions of her fearful youth; Then should thy virtues live upon her lyre, And give to harmony the charm of truth.

But soon the image of thy wrongs in clouds The fair and transient ray of pleasure shrouds; 310 Far other visions melt thy mournful eye, And wake the gushing tear, th' indignant sigh; There Ataliba's sacred, murder'd form, Sinks in the billow of oppression's storm; Wild

He is now entirely free from all apprehension of injury, revenge, or insurrection, however transient and momentary such impression may have formerly been.