Both Uses of
fleeting
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- Daughters, is there no better way to pass the fleeting hours?†
Chpt 6 *
- 'But it will come soon enough,' thought Ralph; 'all love—bah! that I should use the cant of boys and girls—is fleeting enough; though that which has its sole root in the admiration of a whiskered face like that of yonder baboon, perhaps lasts the longest, as it originates in the greater blindness and is fed by vanity.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(fleeting) lasting a short time