instancy

But the instancy of her alarm was inescapable.

She knew what it was to be a captive and have to instancy do something no matter how risky because you had no choice.

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.

Plenty of open air, 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.

The minister walked there often after dark, sometimes groaning aloud in the instancy of his unspoken prayers; and when he was from home, and the manse door was locked, the more daring schoolboys ventured, with beating hearts, to 'follow my leader' across that legendary spot.

As I saw the hour approach, I suffered agonies untold; and when, at last, we heard the slamming of the door which announced in my unwilling ears the arrival of the partner of my crime, you will bear me out with what instancy I besought you to depart.