Example Sentences

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There is something infantile about his features, something fugitively masked by his glittering eyes and sardonic smile.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the pace was now so fast and their elevation so great that the landscape swimming beneath his vision was no more than a brownish plain fugitively maculated with blots of contrasting colour.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

He heard his pistol explode once more, and again visioned a reeling firmament fugitively coruscant with strange constellations.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William

Without such a mechanical or apparently unspiritual basis these forces can only work fugitively, erratically, and so ineffectively, as they did in the Greek world.

From The Unity of Civilization by Various

She had seen him several times in these last days, but only at evening, fugitively, when he came in the boat with the fishermen.

From A Spirit in Prison by Hichens, Robert Smythe