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

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

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

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)

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

From More Science From an Easy Chair by Lankester, E. Ray (Edwin Ray), Sir