| 1. | Measur'd this transient World, the Race of time. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 2. | Year of comets and meteors transient and strange--lo even here on. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | A transient pity touch'd his vengeful breast. - from The Iliad of Homer by Homer |
| 4. | Already I had had a transient impression of these, and the first nausea no longer obscured my observation. - from The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells |
| 5. | His transient masters since he had come into the Northland had bred in him a fear that no master could be permanent. - from The Call of the Wild by Jack London |
| 6. | Bessie asked if I would have a book the word _book_ acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver's Travels from the library. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 7. | Don't cling so tenaciously to ties of the flesh save your constancy and ardour for an adequate cause forbear to waste them on trite transient objects. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 8. | Fluker, accustomed to rise from her couch long before the lark, managed to the satisfaction of all,--regular boarders, single-meal takers, and transient people. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 9. | A settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character, were the unusual diagnosis. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |