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Time and elasticity of boyhood had so closed the sharp but evanescent wound in Billy's heart that he could stand the trial of being groomsman where he had wanted to be groom—more especially since he was supported through the emergency by a little sister of Lottie's who promised to be wondrously like her by the time Billy could stand up in the more enviable capacity.
Source: tatoeba (11868074)
Maxim Moskalkov visited the city's annual ice festival and talked to the sculptors about their evanescent masterpieces.
Source: tatoeba (12307933)
Life is a dream, an ethereal butterfly. The butterfly, a fleeting and fluttering creature, is like life itself—delicate and evanescent.
Source: tatoeba (13467824)
He cannot ſuppreſs his diſapprobation […] of thoſe evaneſcent echoes of ſchool philoſophy, faint-warbling through the grove of letters, to the injury of natural and ſcientific knowledge, and the annoyance of English literature.
Source: wiktionary
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