| 1. | Villon would no longer meet with his ancient temporary provisional lodging. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | The springtime is a provisional paradise, the sun helps man to have patience. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 3. | A provisional failure to obtain renewal of an advertisement to obtain a certain quantity of tea from Thomas Kernan agent for Pulbrook, Robertson and Co. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | copies or in any edition since, is easily accounted for by the general disorder which results from the provisional distribution of the various chapters in the old copies. - from The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete by Leonardo Da Vinci |
| 5. | Why might these several provisional contingencies between a guest and a hostess not necessarily preclude or be precluded by a permanent eventuality of reconciliatory union between a schoolfellow and a jew's daughte. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |