provisionary

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Necessity had occasioned the formation of a provisionary school, where the pupils received rapidly the first notions of the attack and defence of places, after which they were sent to the armies.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Blagdon, Francis W.

Mrs Fanshawe hitched herself into her corner, planted her feet more firmly on the provisionary footstool, and folded her hands on her knee.

From The Independence of Claire by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

The preamble of this law, standing as it now stands, has the lie direct given to it by the provisionary part of the act: if that can be called provisionary which makes no provision.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

Of course it is all provisionary: I do not even know yet what is to be done with you, whether--whether you will stay with me, or go for a while to some school.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Schubin, Ossip

She had already taken that provisionary leap into a mythical future which is one of the perfunctory attitudes of maidenhood.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday