unenduring

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But pleasure with the poor is always unenduring.

From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles, Samuel

To-morrow the brave knight must withdraw, and the "Queen of Beauty," homaged for a day, give place to another whose reign should be as brief and as unenduring.

From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 by Roby, John

She was a dark, unenduring little flower—yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things.

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

Stone houses should be made of stone, and if made of wood or iron or plaster, they are nothing but shams, unenduring and unsatisfactory.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

She saw now his success as unenduring, fictitious, his talents besmirched with the vice that was most hateful to her.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie