"For the moment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... For the moment, then, contentment and tranquillity were restored in the Colonies. Unhappily, they were not lasting. The same year which saw the triumph of the Rockingham administration in the repeal of the Stamp Act, witnessed also its fall before a discreditable intrigue. And the ministry ...
— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge
... quick-tempered, though years of discipline had taught her how to hold herself well in hand upon most occasions. But now, for the moment, her whole soul arose in arms and was ready to flash. forth in ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... the simpler appetites for food and personal necessities; in the natural interplay of anticipation and fulfilment of desires and their occasional frustration; in the selection of companionship which works helpfully or otherwise—for the moment or more lastingly throughout the many vicissitudes of life. All through we find situations which create a more or less personal bias and chances for success or failure, such as simpler types of existence do not produce. They create new problems, and produce some ...
— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various
... so much energy did he put in his voice that, for the moment, the man was startled, ...
— Jack of the Pony Express • Frank V. Webster
... all our duties—the admission of a deep obligation? or was it in any manner connected with her interest in me? I could not ask, and of course did not learn. This scene, however, terminated our intercourse with the Drewetts, for the moment; the boat ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper
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