Provisional

Examples

• Siemens in the provisional specification of his British patent No. 2,064, of 1857, but it does not seem at that time to have been carried out with any practical result. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A provisional government in Paris ordered him to leave the country; was for giving him twenty-four hours to do it in. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It must be clearly understood by the reader how sketchy and provisional all these time estimates are. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This seemed to be true, so long as a genus was imperfectly known, and its species were founded upon a few specimens, that is to say, were provisional. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• She would deceive you, under any circumstances, as little as might be; but she had a trick of answering in this provisional form. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The loyalties and allegiances to-day are at best provisional loyalties and allegiances. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Provisional Brigade, Col. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The house loomed obscure and uninhabited; only an oblong gleam above the door spoke of provisional occupancy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• So they gave us provisional visas. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• No one would deny the right of forming a provisional assumption to the intelligence officer interpreting a cipher, or to the detective unravelling the mystery of a crime. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Yes, a provisional one. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• No classification can have other than a provisional validity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.

Typist: Natalie