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
Winter has pushed them hard, summer been all too brief; life has been crowded with a feverish instancy of work.
From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
The ending moved him strangely: Still with unhurrying chase, And unperturbèd face Deliberate speed, majestic instancy Came on the following Feet, And a voice above their beat— "Naught shelters thee, who wilt not shelter Me."
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
At the same moment the lawyer, thus relieved of the instancy of his fear, changed his tactics.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
He was robed in white like any spectre, and the hood falling back, in the instancy of his contention with the barrow, disclosed a pate as bald and yellow as a skull.
From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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