instancy

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They have about them the brilliance or instancy of their moment but also the cello sound of loss that life makes when going irrecoverably away and lodging at last in the dreamworks.

From Time Magazine Archive

But with unhurrying chase, And unperturb�d pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat�and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet�'All things betray thee, who betrayest Me' .

From Time Magazine Archive

With deliberate speed�though the summer holidays approach�with majestic instancy, nine remote men make answer in thousands of decisions, mostly technical and dull.

From Time Magazine Archive

To get the requisite height and weight-bearing power, yet keep the pony qualities, the hardihood, the astuteness, the thought-like instancy of motion—a wit that can almost prophesy—is a problem that is being patiently worked out.

From The Welsh Pony Described in two letters to a friend by Dargan, Olive Tilford

Plenty of open air, 347 plenty of physical exertion, a continual instancy of toil—here was what had been hitherto lacking in that misdirected life, and the true cure of vital scepticism.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis