Both Uses of
fleeting
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- For I can feel it all....And the whole of that heavenly day of my life and the whole of that evening I passed in fleeting dreams of how I would arrange it all, and how I would dress all the children, and how I should give her rest, and how I should rescue my own daughter from dishonour and restore her to the bosom of her family....And a great deal more.... Quite excusable, sir.†
Chpt 1.2fleeting = lasting a short time
- All this passed vaguely and fleetingly through his brain, but looking at her more intently, he saw that the humiliated creature was so humiliated that he felt suddenly sorry for her.†
Chpt 3.4 *fleetingly = in a short or quick manner