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instancy

[in-stuhn-see] / ˈɪn stən si /


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With deliberate speed�though the summer holidays approach�with majestic instancy, nine remote men make answer in thousands of decisions, mostly technical and dull.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But with unhurrying chase, And unperturb�d pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat�and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet�'All things betray thee, who betrayest Me' .

From Time Magazine Archive

But with unhurrying chase, And unperturb�d pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, They beat—and a Voice beat More instant than the Feet— "All things betray thee, who betrayest Me."

From The Hound of Heaven by Thompson, Francis

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 Dreiser, Theodore




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