Both Uses of
transitory
in
Swann's Way
- Some one had had the happy idea of giving me, to distract me on evenings when I seemed abnormally wretched, a magic lantern, which used to be set on top of my lamp while we waited for dinner-time to come: in the manner of the master-builders and glass-painters of gothic days it substituted for the opaqueness of my walls an impalpable iridescence, supernatural phenomena of many colours, in which legends were depicted, as on a shifting and transitory window.†
Chpt 1
- The kitchen-maid was an abstract personality ... throughout the long series of transitory human shapes in which that personality was incarnate; for we never found the same girl there two years running.†
Chpt 2 *
Definition:
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(transitory) lasting a short time