unenduring

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Stone houses should be made of stone, and if made of wood or iron or plaster, they are nothing but shams, unenduring and unsatisfactory.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

To-morrow the brave knight must withdraw, and the "Queen of Beauty," homaged for a day, give place to another whose reign should be as brief and as unenduring.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

The psychic man is unenduring, impure, full of pain, not the Soul, not the real Self.

From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man by Johnston, Charles

There are many ways of exciting phosphorescence and fluorescence, the latter being merely an unenduring phosphorescence, which ceases when the exciting energy is cut off.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

This, perhaps, was of the less moment as his anger was of an unenduring kind, evaporating frequently with more celerity than he could get the angry words out of his mouth.

From Doctor Thorne by Trollope, Anthony