transitorily

Example Sentences

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Something of the old spirit occasionally flashed forth, but fitfully and transitorily only, like the flicker of a lamp before its extinction.

From The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion by Dent, John Charles

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

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 Maclaren, Alexander

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

The subject-matter is only transitorily within the State and has no permanent habitat therein.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel