But this may have been only a transitory response to the cricket, and I cannot promise the visitor to the Roof Garden that he will find golden- rod there every night. "Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life"" by William Dean Howells

Art is but the human effort to seize some of Nature's notable transitory features to perpetuate them. "By Water to the Columbian Exposition" by Johanna S. Wisthaler

It was no such transitory terror as a dream leaves behind it. "In a Glass Darkly, v. 3/3" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu