1 floating clouds

2 fleeting

3 transient

1 pretty

2 beautiful

1 to appear before one's eyes

2 to come into view

3 to float into appearance

4 to come back (of images from the past)

5 to emerge

6 it emerges

7 it occurs (to me that..)

1 swollen

2 bloated

3 edema

4 dropsy

1 ostentatious

2 pretentious

3 showy

1 more hands than needed (idiom); too many cooks spoil the broth

1 saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-floor pagoda (idiom)

1 flickering light and passing shadows (idiom)

2 blurred scenery

3 cursory

4 superficial

1 to float up (idiom); to become evident

2 to surface

3 to appear

1 lit. to live on a boat

2 to drift from place to place (idiom)