Momentary

(a.) Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.

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• Eternal rigidity had seized upon it in a momentary transition between fervour and resignation. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• She looked at me more intently as she took it, and seemed to take note, with her momentary touch, of every vein in it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• After a momentary whirl in the outer court-yard, the prison-door opened, and shut upon them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The surprise was momentary. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But perhaps he was speaking now; there was a momentary hush of their noise, inarticulate as that of a troop of animals. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But whatever the momentary feeling which caused that flush in her, it went as it came, and she humbly said, I never mean to be, if I can help it. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Its momentary action was made to collapse a pair of clippers, which in closing seized the minute-hand of the clock to which it was attached, and brought it to the hour point. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• There may have been a momentary mantling in the face of the man as he made the last answer, but it passed directly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• He thought, 'But that is very strong,' as he followed the momentary upward glance of her eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• But he did, and his own changed again from that momentary anxiety to its usual expression, as he said cordially. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Gerald knitted his brows in momentary irritation. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• The drug gave her a momentary illusion of complete renewal, from which she drew strength to take up her daily work. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• His lamp was pronounced a fake, a myth, possibly a momentary success magnified to the dignity of a permanent device by an overenthusiastic inventor. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Archer had never been more indifferent to the requirements of form; but his impulse to do Lawrence Lefferts a physical injury was only momentary. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• But this, from the momentary perverseness of impatient suffering, she at first refused to do. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Perhaps some momentary recollection of the story of the Princess may have been in her mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Lily's taste of beneficence had wakened in her a momentary appetite for well-doing. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• And, through the man in the closed wagon, Gudrun could see the whole scene spectacularly, isolated and momentary, like a vision isolated in eternity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• A momentary suspension of the payment of debt is not immediately felt by the people, and occasions neither murmur nor complaint. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Oh, no, she exclaimed with a momentary flush, as she took off her cloak. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• She stopped her work in real, momentary astonishment. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• She broke a momentary silence by inquiring if he knew that papa had been thinking of another tour abroad? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The light raised by her breath had been very fitful, and a momentary irradiation of flesh was all that it had disclosed of her face. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He was deliberately cocking his pistol, and, in the momentary silence that followed George's speech, he fired at him. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• She felt an intense longing to prolong, to perpetuate, the momentary exaltation of her spirit. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• As she gave it to me playfully,--for her darker mood had been but Momentary,--I held it and put it to my lips. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• He had a right, of course, to do as he pleased: and yet a momentary damp is cast on the spirits by the receipt of such news. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But need we fear anything beyond a momentary anger? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Now, that momentary look had said, 'You, of all people! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Emma felt that Mrs. Weston was giving her a momentary glance; and she was herself struck by his warmth. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

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