ephemerae
- plural of ephemera.
Example Sentences
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Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species."
From Time Magazine Archive
He should neither praise nor blame nor defend his equals; he should not strike one blow at the buzzing ephemerae of letters.
From Letters to Dead Authors by Lang, Andrew
Then there are the blue and the brown, both ephemerae, which come on, the first in dark days, the second in bright days; these flies, when well imitated, are very destructive to fish.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
I do not, however, mean to say that they are the same flies, but more probably successive generations of ephemerae of the same species.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
Above, against the slaty-gray cloud-wrack, four exquisite slender girl-forms appeared, with loose hair, silver-gray drapery and gauzy wings as of ephemerae, flying in pursuit of the cloud.
From A Crystal Age by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)
