Wedlock itself seemed a brother of Death; wedlock, and its sweetest hopes, its holy companionship, its mysteries, and all that warm mysterious brotherhood that is between men; passing as they do from mystery to mystery in a little gleam of light; that wild, sweet charm of uncertainty and temporariness,-how lovely it made them all, how innocent, even the worst of them; how hard and prosaic was his own situation in comparison to theirs.
"Septimius Felton or, The Elixir of Life"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
His sigh was not personal; it only meant the temporariness of all human happiness.
"The Awakening of Helena Richie"
Margaret Deland
So Moses had remained on, in the character of a permanency saturated with temporariness; and, when the little boy Dave began to take his place in Society, proceeded to appropriate-so said the child's parents-more than an uncle's fair share of him.
"When Ghost Meets Ghost"
William Frend De Morgan