Example Sentences

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About the house lingers a sense of unrest, of expectation, of transientness, even of anxiety and apprehension.

From The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million by Henry, O.

But we neuralgic and gouty wretches need no whispering slave nor smoking flax to remind us of our frailty and the transientness of our happiness and glory.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard

Elfride's capacity for being wounded was only surpassed by her capacity for healing, which rightly or wrongly is by some considered an index of transientness of feeling in general.

From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Hardy, Thomas

There he laid down his weary lacerated head, reflecting on the sorrows of earth, on merit so often unrewarded, and on the nothingness and transientness of all human blessings.

From The Oriental Story Book A Collection of Tales by Quackenbos, G. P. (George Payn)

In supporting-leg-lameness, the transientness of the weight-bearing period upon the affected member is the determining factor in the production of lameness.

From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor