Abbassi lowered his head and exhaled because his dream, however fleeting, was still alive.
There, the summer moon lights up the sea and the octopuses have "fleeting dreams of a life brief as the night."
His recollections of fleeting dreams were already growing dim, although he couldn't shake the feeling that it would have been something he wanted to remember.
If it occurred to him at all, it was in the context of a fleeting dream.
The captain felt himself go cold despite the fact that his friend was obviously ribbing him about something in a fleeting dream.
The idea had come on him slowly, starting as an uneasy fleeting dream.
On the day after the services he did have a fleeting dream of the woman who had appeared that fatal night.
He had a fleeting dream of her.
And what a brief and fleeting dream it was?
But if the brisk wind and bright sun stirred memories of Camelot, there were also reminders of how fleeting political dreams can be.