Lexicographical Neighbors of Ephemerons
Literary usage of Ephemerons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arrows from My Quiver: Pointed with the Steel of Truth and Winged by Faith by James Caughey (1868)
"How many ephemerons have appeared in our world and disappeared since the days of
Voltaire, who, you are aware, predicted the annihilation of tho Bible and ..."
2. The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"... a spot where independent worlds of ephemerons were passing their time in mad
carousal, some in the air, some on the hot ground and vegetation, ..."
3. Poetry by Modern Poetry Association (1915)
"Interlude Shop girl, poor clerk— ephemerons . . wing your swift way. A little love .
. it will not mark The soul unused to day. ..."
4. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore (1910)
"... among the combatants, so I thought I might manage to remedy the thinness of
my ranks by conjuring up a few dead and forgotten ephemerons to fill them. ..."
5. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Masterpieces by Isidore Singer, William Guild Howard (1914)
"Write music for musicians rather than for yearning mankind! Blind, benighted
ephemerons ! Senile youths whom the sun of Wagner has dried and shriveled up! ..."
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