unenduring

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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

This, perhaps, was of the less moment as his anger was of an unenduring kind, evaporating frequently with more celerity than he could get the angry words out of his mouth.

From Doctor Thorne by Trollope, Anthony

All nature in its myriad forms of life is changeable, impermanent, unenduring.

From The Way of Peace by Allen, James

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)

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