All 7 Uses of
fleeting
in
The Border Legion
- She gave the fascinated Kells her hands, slipped into his arms, to press against his breast, and leaned against him an instant, all one quivering, surrendered body; and then lifting a white face, true in its radiance to her honest and supreme purpose to give him one fleeting glimpse of the beauty and tenderness and soul of love, she put warm and tremulous lips to his.†
Chpt 9
- Kells gave a slight start, barely perceptible, but the intensity of it, and a fleeting tigerish gleam across his face, impressed Joan with the idea that he felt a fiendish joy.†
Chpt 10
- From the fleeting expression on Kells's face Joan read that he knew Gulden's project would defeat his own and render both enterprises fatal.†
Chpt 11 *
- Deep in the fiber of his being inculcated a sentiment, a feeling, long submerged in the darkness of a wicked life, and now that something came fleeting out of the depths—and it was respect for a woman.†
Chpt 12
- Williams telegraphed a keen, fleeting glance at Kells, then went on, to be lost in the crowd.†
Chpt 13
- There was in its murmur an imperishable and deathless note of nature, of time; and this was only a fleeting day of men and gold.†
Chpt 15
- His face lighted fleetingly.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(fleeting) lasting a short time