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Sentences ending with momentary

His expression of surprise was only momentary. [9]
But in the light of Evelyn's quick approval and understanding, it was only momentary. [4]

Short sentences using momentary

The Seigneur's momentary placidity passed. [11]
Jethro saw the momentary advantage. [11]

More example sentences with the word momentary in them

Swiftly he described what happened in the little room at the traitor's tavern, of the momentary reconciliation and the wine that he drank, drugged wine poured out but not drunk by Erris Boyne, and of his later unconsciousness. [11]
Then I witnessed what Brehm has described, for monkey after monkey, with head raised high and turned on one side, could not resist taking a momentary peep into the upright bag, at the dreadful object lying quietly at the bottom. [1]
But the impulse was only momentary, and the vexed look became a kind one before it had crossed the room. [12]
But the illusion was momentary, and my eyes speedily recovered from the shock of the bright flame and snowy drapery to see that the figure was a breathing one. [6]
He could look up at the gallery without turning his head, and sometimes he caught her momentary glance, and again, with her chin in her hand, she was watching Mr. Crewe with a little smile creasing the corners of her eyes. [9]
The face would turn towards me, and the momentary illusion would pass away, but still the fancy clung to me. [6]
Detricand saw that this was not acting, that it was a supreme terror, an awful momentary aberration; for the traitor's eyes were wildly staring, the mouth was drawn in agony, the hands were now rigidly clutching an imaginary something, the body stiffened where it crouched. [11]
The causes of this momentary possession could often be found in the person's life. [5]
The incident of this momentary meeting was, however, of great consequence. [4]
I sometimes think their pupils dilate on purpose to let my consciousness glide through them; indeed, I dread them, I come so close to the nerve of the soul itself in these momentary intimacies. [6]
Again something of the same sensation as before--an involuntary chill--a momentary feeling akin to fear--but vanishing directly, and leaving no alarm behind. [12]
Milo had perceived the momentary weakness. [10]
So real was the momentary illusion that, as he passed through the great hall where hung the portraits of the Duke's ancestors, he made a sudden outward motion of his arms as though to free himself from a physical restraint. [11]
But you'll forgive that momentary weakness, and forget it. [5]
Was it strange that I felt a momentary pang? [6]
We contribute with thankful avidity to the new Methodist church, and are happy to think how lucky it was that those little colored Sunday-school scholars did not seize upon everything we had with violence, before we recovered from our momentary helpless condition. [5]
When they crossed swords again, Iberville, whether by chance or by momentary want of skill, parried Gering's disengage from tierce to carte on to his own left shoulder. [11]
I think the stoutest heart there felt a momentary chill when those words were uttered. [5]
Everything goes off smoothly, except there is a momentary panic over a fractious bull, who plunges into the crowd; but the six white jackets are about him in an instant, and entangle him with their ropes. [4]
In the momentary silence that followed, somebody raised his voice, and in a tone of complacent derision "wondered what Jimmy Madison would say now. [4]
There are reviving signs of breaking away, delusive signs that create momentary exhilaration. [4]
If you find she was not in her right mind, that she was the victim of insanity, hereditary or momentary, as it has been explained, your verdict will take that into account. [5]
But the small servant immediately pausing in her talk, he subsided again, and pleading a momentary forgetfulness of their compact, entreated her to proceed. [12]
I have sometimes picked up a line or a sentence, in these momentary glances between the uncut leaves of a new book, which I have never forgotten. [6]
But this was only a momentary feeling and Count Rostopchin smiled disdainfully at himself. [2]
Yet he could often be led away to other topics, and in talking of them could be betrayed into momentary cheerfulness of manner. [6]
His momentary vision of Sheila Llyn remained with him--not as a vision, rather as a warmth in his inmost being, something which made him intensely alert, cheerful, defiant, exactly skilful. [11]
But these scruples of hers, so startlingly his own, her disquieting insight into his entire mental process had a momentary checking effect, summoned up the vague presage of a future that might become extremely troublesome and complicated. [9]
A momentary posture of circumstances is so far like some preceding one that we accept it as exactly the same, just as we accost a stranger occasionally, mistaking him for a friend. [6]
The sudden appearance of a new figure in the narrow, open space between the factions in that momentary paralysis was not a coincidence. [11]
Doubtless the direction of a character or a career is often turned by a sudden act of the will or a momentary impotence of the will. [4]
What made it more spectral was the bell on the reefs, swinging in its triangle, always sounding, and the momentary scream of the fog-whistle. [4]
It was a momentary revival of an old-possibility. [11]
There was a momentary pause in the conversation; the old general cleared his throat to draw attention. [2]
To hide his momentary confusion, he went over to the drawer of a cupboard in the wall, and placed the book inside. [11]
That was the meaning of his momentary silence, in which I saw that his eyes glistened and a faint flush rose on his cheeks. [6]
Strange as it may seem, he had never heard the argument, and the strength of it, reenforced by the extraordinary vitality and earnestness of the woman who had uttered it, had a momentary stunning effect. [9]
In this light Lindau seemed the harder of the two, and March had the momentary force to say-- "Mr. Dryfoos--it can't be. [8]
The sight of it was a momentary rapture, and then the expectation of what it might contain gave her a feeling of faintness. [4]
We walked silently in yon little valley you see, where we spent a momentary repose. [5]
What I saw in that momentary gleam I shall never whisper in mortal ears. [4]
The horses were in momentary danger of breaking their legs. [4]
Audible prayer is impressive; it gives momentary solemnity and elevation to thought; but does it produce any lasting benefit? [5]
Years afterwards, if he wished for any momentary revenge upon Marion (and he had a keen sense of wordy retaliation), he simply said: "Wo-won't you let me take your blanket? [11]
In the momentary happiness of this experience, she had been forgetful. [9]
His momentary outburst had shown him where he stood-the strength of his fearful temptation. [4]
This same Baldwin had momentary fits of insanity twice afterward, and on both occasions killed people he had grudges against. [5]
The cold minister had frozen Elsie until she felt as if nobody cared for her or would regret her,--and her question had betrayed this momentary feeling. [6]
The "dynamo" which furnishes the working powers of consciousness and action has its annual, its monthly, its diurnal waves, even its momentary ripples, in the current it furnishes. [6]
When Philip had finished he had a momentary regret for this burst of confidence, which he had never given to any one else. [4]
She wished she could have seen him; the slightest, the most momentary, contact with such a spirit would have ennobled her own character and made ignoble thoughts and ignoble acts thereafter impossible to her forever. [5]
In the momentary confusion, I forgot to ask. [5]
But the momentary concern is that it should develop on its own lines and in its own spirit, and not under the influence of London or Boston or New York. [4]
By her smile, by the momentary illumination that her sweet thoughts made in her lovely, hopeful face, you knew that it was not. [4]
And she saw, as in a momentary vision of herself, that the things that once absorbed her and stirred her sympathies were now measurably indifferent to her. [4]
Venters marveled anew, and this time at the tint of shame in her face, at the momentary drooping of long lashes. [13]
He had been accustomed all his life to make up his mind quickly and, because he was well enough off to bear the consequences of momentary rashness in commercial investments, he was not counted among the transgressors. [11]
There was such a thing as momentary insanity, in which the person, otherwise rational to all appearances, was for the time actually bereft of reason, and not responsible for his acts. [5]
Hard by, apart, a temple stood; And strangers from the outer world Passing, noted it with tired eyes, And seeing, saw it not: A glimpse of its fair form--an answering momentary thrill-- And they passed on, careless and unaware. [5]
This was but a momentary thought; the great Dudley property could not be given up in that way. [6]
Perhaps it was a momentary sympathy for beauty in distress which made the Master say, as he backed from the doorway with stealthy step: "Gatd'en'ale, 'tis well she has enough to live on, and to provide for what's to come! [11]
In spite of a momentary embarrassment most unusual in him, the courage of her question made a strong appeal, and his quick sympathies suspected the tragedy behind her apparent calmness. [9]
She had had a momentary apprehension, almost sickening, that she would be too conspicuous, but the saleswoman had anticipated that objection with the magical word "lady. [9]

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