"I--kiss a little child! I!"--and from her violent laughter she burst into a passion of tears. The mother signed me to carry Guy away; she and John took Lady Caroline into the parlour, and shut the door. Of course I did not then learn what passed--but I did afterwards. Lady Caroline's tears were evanescent, like all her emotions. Soon she became composed--asked again for writing materials--then countermanded the request. "No, I will wait till to-morrow. Ursula, you will take me in for the night?"
Mrs.英文原著 · 《John Halifax》
"Thus gazing," said Montreal, softly, "we reverse the old Medusan fable the poets tell us of, and look and muse ourselves out of stone. A little while, and it was the sunlight that gilded the wave - it now shines as brightly and glides as gaily beneath the stars; even so rolls the stream of time: one luminary succeeds the other equally welcomed - equally illumining - equally evanescent! - You see, the poetry of Provence still lives beneath my mail!"英文原著 · 《Rienzi》
Jane looked down, and with eyes modestly lowered she swallowed the last fragment of the bread-and-butter and apple sauce and sugar which had been the constantly evanescent companion of their little walk together. She was not mercenary; she had sought no reward.英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
The more ethereal, evanescent, more refined and sublime part of art is the seeing nature through the medium of sentiment and passion, as each object is a symbol of the affections and a link in the chain of our endless being. But the unravelling this mysterious web of thought and feeling is alone in the Muse's gift, namely, in the power of that trembling sensibility which is awake to every change and every modification of its ever-varying impressions, that英文原著 · 《Table-Talk, Essays on Men and Manners》
On the secret tablets of our memory, which is the book of our life, every thought, word, and deed, good or evil, is written down indelibly and forever; and the invisible pen goes on writing day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute, every thought, even the idlest, every fancy the most evanescent: nothing is left out of our book of life which will be our record in judgment! When that book is opened and no secrets are hid, what son or daughter of Adam is there who will not need to say, "God be merciful?"英文原著 · 《The Golden Dog》
This tallies with my father's habits, as described by himself. When a difficulty or an objection occurred to him, he thought it of paramount importance to make a note of it instantly because he found hostile facts to be especially evanescent.英文原著 · 《The Life and Letters-2》