| 1. | Holding Humanity as in thy open hand, as some ephemeral toy. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | It seems as though man's lodging partook of his ephemeral character, and God's house of his eternity. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | Provincial diffidence, that slight varnish, the ephemeral flower, that down of the peach, had evaporated to the winds through the little orthodox counsels which the three Musketeers gave their friend. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |