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
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
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
Again she had seized her chance with ruthless instancy.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Even now Ralph could see his lips moving in the instancy of his unuttered supplication.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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