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
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
But what riveted the resemblance most was the instancy of their sympathetic communion.
From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Elizabeth Sheppard
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
The speed there is terrific, so fast that it hardens, again that "majestic instancy."
From The Forgotten Threshold by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien
