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Publishing fraudulous scientific results will at best bring you some ephemerous glory, at the significant risk of a shattered reputation, losing your job and not be able to find work for the rest of your life.

San Francisco Chronicle Op Ed: The Unholy Lust of Scientists « Climate Audit 2006

A certain ephemerous insect (Chlöeon) during its development, moults, as shown by Sir J. Lubbock, above twenty times, and each time undergoes a certain amount of change; and in this case we see the act of metamorphosis performed in a primary and gradual manner.

XIV. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology-Embryology-Rudimentary Organs. Development and Embryology 1909

Hope, fear, alarm, jealousy, the ephemerous tale that does its business and dies in a day, all these things, which are the reins and spurs by which leaders check or urge the minds of followers, are not easily employed, or hardly at all, amongst scattered people.

Paras. 325-349 1909

Hope, fear, alarm, jealousy, the ephemerous tale that does its business and dies in a day, all these things, which are the reins and spurs by which leaders check or urge the minds of followers, are not easily employed, or hardly at all, amongst scattered people.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

This made him boldly say, that he did not desire to be esteemed a physician, if from his twenty-eighth year to his old age he had not lived in perfect health, except some ephemerous fevers, of which he soon rid himself; yet he was not naturally of the soundest temper, his stomach being evidently bad.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

You can lay on the floor face down on the pavement, time for a dramatic, ephemerous moment of fame on "Facebook" or "UTube", but you get to get up and go home when the shooting is over.

Indybay newswire 2009

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Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London ... 1790

a physician, if from his twenty-eighth year to his old age he had not lived in perfect health, except some ephemerous fevers, of which he soon rid himself; yet he was not naturally of the soundest temper, his stomach being evidently bad.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

a physician, if from his twenty-eighth year to his old age he had not lived in perfect health, except some ephemerous fevers, of which he soon rid himself; yet he was not naturally of the soundest temper, his stomach being evidently bad.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002