transitorily

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On ignition it becomes lemon yellow, and transitorily darker, even brown, and passes into the sexquioxide.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. by Various

Something of the old spirit occasionally flashed forth, but fitfully and transitorily only, like the flicker of a lamp before its extinction.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles

I make account to be in London, transitorily, about the end of August.

From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by Donne, John

There is no slavery so abhorrent as that of the menial who has no thought beyond the narrow sphere of his servitude, and the little pleasure which his light heart may transitorily enjoy.

From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy

Wasn't it my own phrase to speak of "that greater mind in men, in which we are but moments and transitorily lit cells?"

From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)