What is "fleetingly"

Usage examples of "fleetingly".

It passed all too fleetingly and they stood together again in silence, looking out over the balustrade, watching the backsplash of vivid colors fading from the sky in the wake of the sunset.

In that moment of looking up to see the face of a friend, as if for the first time, or that moment of standing motionless at a breathtaking sunset or holding a sleeping infant, we fleetingly glimpse something of the full-statured stillness that eternally pervades the fleetingness of all things.

The priest recalled with terrible embarrassment that the collage of his masturbatory fantasies, unfolding only minutes before, had fleetingly featured the very girl who stood before him now.

CC psis assembled and concentrated, reminding Knot fleetingly of the psi-chickens.

She had never experienced sexual pleasure other than fleetingly and tenuously in those early days of their courtship, when Julian had teased her with kisses that promised so much and yet in the end meant so very little.

Polly wondered fleetingly how Hetty had managed to achieve such an easy friendship with him.

Bashir wondered fleetingly if the symbiont noticed or cared about the size of its confinement, but thrust the thought away as he hunched over to resubmerge it in the five-thousand-year-old liquid.

He could remain where he was and do battle, for he did not doubt that the Barkers would speedily scent him (in fact he wondered fleetingly why they had not already done so).

God help me, I even wondered fleetingly if he might not have a brain tumour.

Fleetingly, she noticed the brazier smouldering in the far corner, a long branding iron protruding from the incandescence.

I chivvied Barry round the ashtray with a hot cigar butt and pondered fleetingly.

She thought fleetingly about stripping to the skin and diving in, but there was Roarke to deal with.

Unicorns, like all equines except the centaurs, were rare in Xanth, and I had seen one only twice before, and only fleetingly.

He thought, fleetingly, floatingly, that it was a good thing he had booked into one of the older, more elegant hotels I that still had windows that opened.

The long sultry desert noondays they spent under the thatched shelter, sitting apart, touching only fleetingly when he handed her a book or when passing Shasa between them, but caressing each other with their eyes and their voices until the suspense was a kind of exquisite torment.