All 3 Uses of
fleeting
in
The Return of the King
- For the fragrance that came to each was like a memory of dewy mornings of unshadowed sun in some land of which the fair world in Spring is itself but a fleeting memory.†
Chpt 5.8 *
- He murmured old childish tunes out of the Shire, and snatches of Mr. Bilbo's rhymes that came into his mind like fleeting glimpses of the country of his home.†
Chpt 6.1
- Sam thought he saw a last fleeting glimpse of it, peering back over the edge of the eastward precipice, before it ducked and disappeared.†
Chpt 6.2
Definition:
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(fleeting) lasting a short time