But if all rhetoric is a mode of pyrotechny, and all pyrotechnics are by necessity fugacious, yet even in these frail pomps, there are many degrees of frailty.
"Biographical Essays"
Thomas de Quincey
It is useless to deny the rarity and worth of the skill that can report so perfectly and with such exquisite humor all the fugacious and manifold emotions of the modern maiden and her lover.
"The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers"
Mary Cholmondeley
The wealth acquired by speculation and plunder, is fugacious in its nature, and fills society with the spirit of gambling.
"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson"
Thomas Jefferson