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
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
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
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 love of man, far more the love of God, is God in heaven descended upon earth, eternity made time in beauty, "majestic instancy," the Word made Flesh.
From The Forgotten Threshold by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
