transitorily
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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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Thus the young lion is spotted, during his first year, with dark spots on its lighter ground, and transitorily shows the livery that is most common in the genus.
From The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 by Various
Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.
From The Life of Jesus by Ernest Renan
You remember the profound words in our Lord's pregnant parable of the seeds, how one class which transitorily was Christian, had for its characteristic that immediately with joy they received the word.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren
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 Friedrich Schiller
