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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Evanescent

More evanescent than the rainbow.
—William Archer

So evanescent that it was like a shape made in water.
—Charles Dickens

Evanescent as the crimson flush that tints the daybreak.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon