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
No glittering ink can make this written word Shine clear enough to speak the noble rage And instancy of life.
From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley
But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat—and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet - "All things betray thee, who betrayest Me."
From Poems by Francis Thompson
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
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
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