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Ephemera   Listen
noun
Ephemera  n.  
1.
(Med.) A fever of one day's continuance only.
2.
(Zoöl.) A genus of insects including the day flies, or ephemeral flies. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.





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"Ephemera" Quotes from Famous Books



... them in His pavilion, to cover them with His feathers, to hide them in His secret place, to hold them in the hollow of His hand or stretch around them the everlasting arms! These men were true children of Nature. As the humming-bird among its own palm-trees, as the ephemera in the sunshine of a summer evening, so they lived their joyous lives. And even the full share of the sadder experience of life which came to all of them but drove them the further into the Secret Place, and led them with more consecration to make, as they ...
— Natural Law in the Spiritual World • Henry Drummond


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