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- It's a treasure, he thought, and actually started to salivate and then smiled more widely as he had a fleeting image of back in the world and what they would think if they could see him now, salivating over what amounted to a roadkill.†
p. 47.1fleeting = lasting a short time
- He had one fleeting image of a wall of brown hair with the feathers of the arrow sticking out of the middle and he went down.†
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Definitions:
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(fleeting) lasting a short time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)