in transitu
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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June 6th.—We have hard work at the War Department, and some confusion owing to the loss of a box of papers in transitu from Montgomery.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
From what I saw in transitu the consumption must be enormous.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace
Living on the borders of the two empires, they exhibit the national characteristics of each in transitu towards the other.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
Something exquisite by very suggestion of evanescence, caught in transitu, and held for the eye and mind to dwell on.
From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)
Letters in transitu contain all manner of varied stimuli and shocks, yet to the postman, who is the nerve that conveys them, they are all alike, except as regards mere size and weight.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel
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