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Definition
lasting a short time
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one who stays for only a short time
or:
one who stays for only a short time
- One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.Chapters 43-45 -- Hark!; The Chart; The Affidavit (60% in)
- It may have been a flash of honesty in him; or mere prudential policy which, under the circumstance, imperiously forbade the slightest symptom of open disaffection, however transient, in the important chief officer of his ship.Chapters 109-111 -- Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin; Queequeg in his Coffin; The Pacific (25% in)
There are no more uses of "transient" in Moby Dick.
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