All 3 Uses of
transient
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- His outlook upon time was as a transient flash of the eye now and then: that projection of consciousness into days gone by and to come, which makes the past a synonym for the pathetic and the future a word for circumspection, was foreign to Troy.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- Bathsheba never forgot that transient little picture of Liddy crossing the swamp to her there in the morning light.†
Chpt 43-45
- Troy had felt, in his transient way, hundreds of times, that he could not envy other people their condition, because the possession of that condition would have necessitated a different personality, when he desired no other than his own.†
Chpt 46-48
Definition:
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(transient) lasting a short time
or:
one who stays for only a short time