His grief for her death had been a mere transient emotion, .

Perhaps the person who thus excited a transient emotion of risibility was a nobleman.

But it would have been a transient emotion.

A noble, sincere, but transient emotion and impulse.

For one instant Godolphin's eye sparkled, and his pale cheek burned-butthe transient emotion faded away as he answered-

Only their quick transient emotions that change every moment.

But these are only transient emotions; they are idle and unavailing, so away with them!

We need earnest thoughtful Christly men, who will be more anxious to create and develop moral earnestness than to excite transient emotions.