provisionary

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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.

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

There was a ring at the door-bell about eight o’clock, which proved the herald of little Mrs. Snow, holding in one hand a provisionary vial.

From The Wayfarers by Cutting, Mary Stewart Doubleday

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.

My mother it appears declines rapidly: her death is even feared, and should it happen, I cannot pretend to insist on the obstacles which her maternal cares and provisionary fears have raised.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas