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Curiously enough, though each chapter is intensely vivid, they become, through much instancing of the same unconquerable spirit, something monotonous, though never wearisome, in bulk.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 11, 1919 by Various

In reply to his denunciations the suitors accuse Penelope of deluding them, instancing how she promised to choose a husband as soon as she had finished weaving a winding sheet for her father-in-law Laertes.

From The Book of the Epic by Guerber, H. A. (Hélène Adeline)

It will suffice to adduce a proof of their moderation by instancing one matter.

From The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livius, Titus

Hazlitt stated that there were some prose works that approached poetry without absolutely being poetry, instancing Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim's Progress, and the Decameron.

From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert

Give me leave to show the inimitable softness and sweetness of the English Tongue, only by instancing in one Word.

From A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) by Purney, Thomas