transitorily

I write down that realization of disorder and suffocation here and now as though I had thought it, but indeed then I only felt it, felt it transitorily as I looked back, and then stood with the thing escaping from my mind.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Isbister looked at him and wondered transitorily if some complex

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

However, given this measure of introspection, a few of the more metaphysical among us as we began this day transitorily viewed a world without days off per se as if somehow an interruption would magnify the efficacy of the work force we exert at all other moments in our focus on increasing worker productivity and like metrics for our part in patriotically contributing to GDP growth.

Lean Left » Blog Archive » A Truce Suggestion for the Next War on Christmas 2005

For it is not probable that they writ seriously of dialectics, and only transitorily and in sport of the beginning, end, gods, and justice, in which you affirm their discourse to be blind and contradictory to itself, and to have a thousand other faults.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

He had loved other little boys and girls transitorily, none had been frequent and familiar enough to strike deep roots in his heart, and he had grown up with a tattered and dissipated affectionateness that was becoming wildly shy.

The History of Mr. Polly 2003

On ignition it becomes lemon yellow, and transitorily darker, even brown, and passes into the sexquioxide.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884. Various

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.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

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

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 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920

His sorrow made them thoughtful for a time, and then Amanda nestled closer to her lover and they forgot about him, and their honeymoon became so active and entertaining that only very rarely and transitorily did they ever think of him again.

The Research Magnificent 1906

He had loved other little boys and girls transitorily, none had been frequent and familiar enough to strike deep roots in his heart, and he had grown up with a tattered and dissipated affectionateness that was becoming wildly shy.

The History of Mr. Polly 1906