passingness

Nothing less than infinity can hallow emotions: their passingness -- which seems the rule in the fever and turmoil of city life -- is not their abatement but their degradation.

Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange John Oliver Hobbes 1886

Headstones and headstones around me! some newly put up, and others mossy and grey; it was a humbling yet an edifying sight, preaching, as forcibly as ever Maister Wiggie did in his best days, of the vanity and the passingness of all human enjoyments.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Headstones and headstones around me! some newly put up, and others mossy and grey; it was a humbling yet an edifying sight, preaching, as forcibly as ever Maister Wiggie did in his best days, of the vanity and the passingness of all human enjoyments.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824