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Definition of Ephemerals
1. ephemeral [n] - See also: ephemeral
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephemerals
Literary usage of Ephemerals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mission of the Comforter & Other Sermons with Notes by Julius Charles Hare (1846)
"... sweepings of a public library, interlarded with those of a reading-room,
quoting all manner of books of all ages, bygone libels, and the ephemerals of ..."
2. The Eighth Commandment by Charles Reade (1860)
"Venetian pictures, and other masterpieces, robbed of their native lustre by
miserable restorers, ephemerals, who revering themselves as all ephemerals do, ..."
3. The Genuine Works of Hippocrates by Hippocrates (1849)
"... as Hippocrates says, all fevers from buboes arc bad, with the exception of
ephemerals; although the bubo is also of the class of phlegmons. ..."
4. The Vegetation of a Desert Mountain Range as Conditioned by Climatic Factors by Forrest Shreve (1915)
"The perennial grasses, many of the other perennial herbaceous plants, and all of
the ephemerals are either in a resting state or dead throughout the arid ..."
5. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
"Also among the ephemerals are the works of the poets in a small way who seek
their fame in small editions, the bulk of which go as presentation copies to ..."
6. Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With Annotations by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912)
"Nature centres into balls, And her proud ephemerals, Fast to surface and outside,
Scan the profile of the sphere: Wist they the thing signified A new ..."
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