transitorily

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

There is no merit in mastering the feelings which only lightly and transitorily skim over the surface of the soul.

A good many persons, of the poor classes, and of those apparently well to do, stopped transitorily to look at these books.

The young of our surviving elephants only exhibit transitorily the family tendency.

But this law is more or less counteracted by other facts, which act in a contrary sense more or less transitorily.