He knew that the showy ephemera of this world had by a temporary fire-fly glitter, fascinated the simple souls that had been erstwhile glad to dwell for a space on the contemplation of spiritual and heavenly things.
I was in a great hurry; I had an appointment with one of the animalculæ which do not like being kept waiting--an ephemera whom mortals call a woman.
I was looking at my ephemera with an easily understood feeling of curiosity, when suddenly the wind drove a drop of rain on to the microscope slide and wet my pinch of sand.
The Ephemera is the fly which is born but to die, living a single hour of love.
We speak of the ephemera which lives a few hours: the period is sufficient for a creature that does nothing.
Everything that counted, that is, in the valuation of the proscribed, and the victims who came like ephemera on the night wind to scorch and shrivel and be drained in their bright, illusive fires.
He stood for a little while, wondering at first sight if this were only another mirage of the plagued imagination, such as had risen like ephemera while he lay on the sand bar at the river's edge.
The life of theephemera is extraordinarily short in comparison with that of longer-lived creatures; but nevertheless, for the ephemera this short life is as long as a life of years to others.
But the phenomena of the circulation was most distinctly visible in the larva of Ephemera vulgata, even more distinctly than it is possible to trace it in the larvae of frogs and newts.
He held it before us, and said: "In my opinion, a philosophical ephemera would argue thus.
Ephemera die all at sunset, and no insect of this class has ever sported in the beams of the morning sun.
If the ephemera on the ladder of existence would turn its back on the brilliant development of the beings above it, and only count the important ones on the steps beneath it, it would increase in its own importance.
Ephemera Danica, and returning to his shelter to pick the luscious morsel to pieces at his leisure.
The main charm, however, lies in the fact that the advent of Ephemera Danica does bring up the big fish of the water in a way that no other fly food does or can.
The larvae of the famous green drake (Ephemera vulgata) are like these: but we shall not find them.
Bartram's similar description ofEphemera in his Travels ed.
Smyth observes that it is generally thought that the Ephemera is a reworking of an essay on "Human Vanity" which appeared in the Pennsylvania Gazette, Dec.
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