The instancy of modern communication.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

He pressed his demand with considerable instancy.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

The painting has an instancy that he finds striking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Underworld] Reference

Cappadociaes request; soliciting him with all instancy, to be the more speedy in assayling Osbech.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron] Reference

How Thompson's line, "Deliberate speed, majestic instancy," came to dominate one of the defining moments in American constitutional law represents a unique instance of not law-in-literature or law-as-literature, but literature-as-law.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the beauty of the poppies] Reference

The hidden rifle with deliberate instancy cracked once more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laramie Holds the Range] Reference

The speed there is terrific, so fast that it hardens, again that "majestic instancy.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Forgotten Threshold] Reference

Even now Ralph could see his lips moving in the instancy of his unuttered supplication.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference

At the same moment the lawyer, thus relieved of the instancy of his fear, changed his tactics.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England] Reference

Ralph Peden, who had taken a step forward in the instancy of his appeal, came to himself again in a moment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference

The devotee's irrationality springs from a thousand inexplicable demonstrations of God's instancy in trouble.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference

Winter has pushed them hard, summer been all too brief; life has been crowded with a feverish instancy of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Copper Streak Trail] Reference

The effect of her praying with instancy and pressing importunity of faith: the devil is cast out of her daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan.] Reference

But I wish either of them had given us an instancy in any good author, in which superne is used for sursumj upwards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...] Reference

As he went he looked upward often in self-communion, and sometimes groaned aloud in the instancy of his unspoken prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference

In "Silvia" and "Burial" you have some infectious, arresting slow burners that may not have the instancy of "Animal" but grab you all the same.    From Wordnik.com.  [whiteboydancefloor] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrecker] Reference

The marvellous love-poetry of mysticism, the rhapsodies which extol the spirit's Lover, Friend, Companion, Bridegroom; which describe the "deliberate speed, majestic instancy" of the Hound of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People] Reference

And I am not without some assurance that in this present lecture I am both hearing and obeying one of those same locutions that Teresa heard so frequently, and obeyed with such instancy and fidelity and fruitfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings] Reference

Fra Rinaldo, then, having returned to his former appetites, began to pay frequent visits to his gossip and waxing in assurance, proceeded to solicit her with more than his former instancy to that which he desired of her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

Whom when he saw, grieving that they would not suffer him to rest, raging, as it were to revenge himself, he scourged them with such an instancy of prayer, that some were cured at once, some after two or three days, and all within a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermits] Reference

It was needful that I should suffer this as a purgatory; but know likewise, my dear son, that the evil spirits tormented me greatly, and assailed me with such cunning and instancy, that I was in constant fear lest my courage should fail me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History and Life of the Reverend Doctor John Tauler with Twenty-Five of his Sermons] Reference

And here it must be remarked that at such critical moments of doubt any but the highest order of mind tends to throw off the responsibility of decision upon the superior, though from the instancy of the case hesitation or delay may be fatal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories] Reference

It is the efficiency of the telephone that makes it irresistible to a great people whose passion is to "get results" -- the instancy with which the communication is given, and the clear loudness of the telephone's voice in reply to yours: phenomena utterly unknown in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Your United States Impressions of a first visit] Reference

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 school-boys ventured, with beating hearts, to "follow my leader" across that legendary spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners)] Reference

Fra Puccio, eager to know the thing, began straightway to entreat him with the utmost instancy that he would teach it him and then to swear that never, save in so far as it should please him, would he tell it to any, engaging, an if it were such as he might avail to follow, to address himself thereunto.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

Thereupon I consulted with Alan, and the parley was agreed to and parole given upon either side; but this was not the whole of Mr. Riach's business, and he now begged me for a dram with such instancy and such reminders of his former kindness, that at last I handed him a pannikin with about a gill of brandy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kidnapped] Reference

"deliberate speed, majestic instancy" of the Hound of Heaven chasing the separated soul, the onslaughts, demands, and caresses of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Mysticism] Reference

Deliberate speed, majestic instancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quiet Talks on John's Gospel] Reference

Deliberate speed, majestic instancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [BrothersJudd Blog] Reference