transitorily
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Variations caused by the factors mentioned act only transitorily, and the pressure shortly returns to normal.
From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Louis Marshall Warfield
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 George Gissing
There is no slavery so abhorrent as that of the menial who has no thought beyond the narrow sphere of his servitude, and the little pleasure which his light heart may transitorily enjoy.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Timothy Templeton
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 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
The young of our surviving elephants only exhibit transitorily the family tendency.
From More Science From an Easy Chair by Sir E. Ray (Edwin Ray) Lankester
