Both Uses of
evanescent
in
Heart of Darkness
- Looking past that mad helmsman, who was shaking the empty rifle and yelling at the shore, I saw vague forms of men running bent double, leaping, gliding, distinct, incomplete, evanescent.†
Chpt 2 *
- And it is not my own extremity I remember best—a vision of grayness without form filled with physical pain, and a careless contempt for the evanescence of all things—even of this pain itself.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(evanescent) tending to vanish like vapor