instancy
Example Sentences
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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
He declared that he gave in to their instancy, and dismissed them still grieving, and bearing on their cheeks the signs of sorrow.
From Barlaam and Ioasaph by Saint John of Damascus
But what riveted the resemblance most was the instancy of their sympathetic communion.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
Our hearts beat, and in the instancy of our watch we would not have turned our heads if the proviseur himself had been at our side.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Ralph Peden, who had taken a step forward in the instancy of his appeal, came to himself again in a moment.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
