provisionary
Example Sentences
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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 Thomas Holcroft
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 Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
She had already taken that provisionary leap into a mythical future which is one of the perfunctory attitudes of maidenhood.
From The Wayfarers by Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting
These laws are based upon old Roman legislation, amended by ecclesiastical enactments brought hither by the Knights, and fortified by provisionary regulations issued by the several Grand Masters, and designed to meet special cases.
From The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou
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 Francis W. Blagdon
