| 1. | And now a partial and evanescent success. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | Although this event failed not of a vivid effect upon my disordered imagination, yet was it evanescent as vivid. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 3. | He had thought he loved her to distraction he had regarded his passion as adoration and behold it was only a poor little evanescent partiality. - from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |