Both Uses of
fleeting
in
Lonesome Dove
- Augustus had had only a fleeting contact with the language and had no real opportunity to improve his knowledge; once he had been caught in an ice storm on the plains and had torn out a number of pages of the grammar in order to get a fire started.†
Chpt 7-8 *fleeting = lasting a short time
- At first the stones were small, and he wasn't too worried, for he had seen fleeting hail squalls pass in five minutes.†
Chpt 62-63