transitorily
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My mind felt, at times, quite confused; at other times, strange ideas shot transitorily through it, with the vividness of lightning; but they were only coruscations, and left no impressions.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III by Various
I make account to be in London, transitorily, about the end of August.
From Letters to Severall Persons of Honour by John Donne
Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
Isbister looked at him and wondered transitorily if some complex Providence had indeed brought them together that afternoon.
From When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
The young of our surviving elephants only exhibit transitorily the family tendency.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
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