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 Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Days of the Comet] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lean Left » Blog Archive » A Truce Suggestion for the Next War on Christmas] Reference

Isbister looked at him and wondered transitorily if some complex.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference

The young of our surviving elephants only exhibit transitorily the family tendency.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Science From an Easy Chair] Reference

Man has not been able to maintain this position: for the ideal is realized but transitorily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Jesus] Reference

The subject-matter is only transitorily within the State and has no permanent habitat therein.    From Wordnik.com.  [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] Reference

A good many persons, of the poor classes, and of those apparently well to do, stopped transitorily to look at these books.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference

Something of the old spirit occasionally flashed forth, but fitfully and transitorily only, like the flicker of a lamp before its extinction.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference

TO a higher stand-point, though not to a higher development thereof, than the earlier nations, rise the merely transitorily world-historical Persians.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference

In the frog the olfactory lobes acquire a much larger relative size, and they retain permanently an internal cavity which exists only transitorily in man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science] Reference

It might, however, have been expected that in the Tadpole, during the co-existence of the tail with the hind legs, and while it thus externally resembles an eft -- such a muscle would transitorily exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

Therefore, a depreciated paper currency has transitorily an effect on industry similar to that of a protective tariff, and even as the payment of export premiums; inasmuch as it enables manufacturers to permit.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Mr. Polly] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Research Magnificent] Reference

Much as bloated financial institutions gorged on mortgage-backed derivatives even when the underlying fundamentals made no rational sense, so G.M. doubled down on sure-to-be obsolete S. U.V.'s and trucks to serve a market transitorily enthralled by them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth About Cars] Reference

Our dear Reine Margot herself in one case prescribes, what one hopes she found not merely in La Mole, but in others of those transitorily happy ones whose desiccated hearts did or did not distend the pockets of her farthingale as live Persian kittens do those of their merchants.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800] Reference

In turn, animal matter can never become, even transitorily, part of a human body, except as the living man assimilates it, and by the vital processes of his own existence lifts, for the time being, the substance of the animal that supplied him food to the higher plane of his own existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern] Reference

The one reveals individual life to us by the play of circumstance, the interaction of events, the correlative eduction of personal characteristics: the other by his apprehension of that quintessential movement or mood or phase wherein the soul is transitorily visible on its lonely pinnacle of light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Robert Browning] Reference

The idea of replacing the precious metals as a medium of circulation by a less costly material, even the ancients were acquainted with; but with the exception of the Carthaginians, they scarcely ever made any use of it except in cases of need and transitorily. (.    From Wordnik.com.  [System der volkswirthschaft. English] Reference

"Thus every animal in the course of its development typifies or represents some of the permanent forms of animals inferior to itself; but it does not represent all the inferior forms, nor acquire the organization of any of the forms which it transitorily represents.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theory of Creation: A Review of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation'] Reference

'Problem!' she was transitorily indignant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Whip Hand]

> From this moment disguise, if any there had been, was over with the most open and frank of human beings, who never even transitorily practised it but to keep off evil, or its apprehension, from others.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference