in transitu
Americanadverb
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Longstreet’s corps is somewhere in transitu between Petersburg and Gordonsville, and would no doubt be ordered here, and it might arrive in time.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
It is obviously not to be thought of that merchants, however wealthy, should carry with them, in addition to the capital to be expended on their purchases, double the value of their goods in transitu.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
From what I saw in transitu the consumption must be enormous.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox
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
Moreover, all prisoners in transitu for any point of exchange, falling into their hands, will be held as paroled, and exchanged.
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
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