| 1. | But I never considered it as other than a transitory life. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 2. | The red creeper was quite a transitory growth, and few people have seen it growing. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 3. | 'Yes, I think I see it now,' he said after some time, brightening in a quite transitory manner. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 4. | I thought in a transitory way of the oddness of wells still existing, and then resumed the thread of my speculations. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 5. | I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 6. | These feelings are transitory each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 7. | Reed, I was not disposed to care much for the nursemaid's transitory anger and I _was_ disposed to bask in her youthful lightness of heart. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 8. | A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind and never to allow passion or a transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 9. | Company was irksome to me when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth the voice of Henry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a transitory peace. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |