transitorily

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It is so difficult for human beings to live together; nay, it is so difficult for them to associate, however transitorily, and even under the most favourable conditions, without some shadow of mutual offence. 

From The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft by Gissing, George

A corresponding germinal condition, the two-layered gastrula, occurs transitorily in the embryological history of all the other Metazoa, from the lowest Cnidaria and Vermes up to man.

From Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest

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)

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

From Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller by Schiller, Friedrich