The Englishmen were escorted to a
provisional post established on the bank of the river, where they found the most assiduous attention, and every thing to supply their wants.
Petersburg, to negotiate in his name as president of the American Fur Company, had, under sanction of the Russian government, made a
provisional agreement with the Russian company.
But meanwhile he had to go on living, and, until he formed a theory of conduct, he made himself a
provisional rule.
Flat, offering nothing but a tiny bay for the convenience of embarkation, and under the protection of the governor, who went shares with them, smugglers made use of it as a
provisional entrepot , at the expense of not killing the game or devastating the garden.
She would deceive you, under any circumstances, as little as might be; but she had a trick of answering in this
provisional form.
I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as
provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal.
"Fancied's the very word to use in this connection," I observed, remembering the subtly
provisional character of Marlow's long sojourn amongst us.
244) formulates two "
provisional laws of acquired behaviour or learning," as follows:
Such newspapers and documents and histories as survive from this period all tell one universal story of towns and cities with the food supply interrupted and their streets congested with starving unemployed; of crises in administration and states of siege, of
provisional Governments and Councils of Defence, and, in the cases of India and Egypt, insurrectionary committees taking charge of the re-arming of the population, of the making of batteries and gun-pits, of the vehement manufacture of airships and flying-machines.
Barely with two years' sea experience before the mast, he was taken from the forecastle and made a
provisional second mate.
The official WPI for 'all commodities' (Base: 2011-12=100) for July declined by 0.2 per cent to 121.2 (
provisional) from 121.5 (
provisional) for the previous month.