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"text": "Thy life is long, Eternity is short. So short that, shouldst thou die and Eternity should pass, and after the passing of Eternity thou shouldst live again, thou wouldst say: ‘I closed mine eyes but for an instant.’",
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"text": "January 2, 1827, Thomas Carlyle, letter to Mrs. Carlyle, Scotsbrig\nI am beginning to be very instant for some sort of occupation."
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"ref": "December 28, 2019 Attorney Jeffery S. Levin, quoted in The Boston Globe, p. 3",
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"ref": "1645, Thomas Fuller, “Personall Meditations”, in Good Thoughts in Bad Times, […], Exeter, Devon: […] Thomas Hunt, →OCLC, section VIII, page 19:",
"text": "I ſee no day to To day, the inſtant Time is alvvayes the fitteſt time.",
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},
{
"ref": "1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “The Hocussing of Cigarette”, in The Case of Miss Elliott, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published 1905, →OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909, OCLC 11192831, quoted in The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:",
"text": "No one, however, would have anything to do with him, as Mr. Keeson's orders in those respects were very strict ; he had often threatened any one of his employés with instant dismissal if he found him in company with one of these touts.",
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},
{
"ref": "2023 February 27, Luke Munn, “8chan's Playful Hate”, in Red Pilled - The Allure of Digital Hate, Bielefeld: Bielefeld University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 37:",
"text": "As the body count rose, Tarrant quickly became a hero who had achieved a “new high score,” surpassing the former record holder Seung-Hui Cho of Virginia Tech. Tarrant attained instant cult status in the community.",
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{
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"sense": "momentary",
"word": "vorübergehend"
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"roman": "bin regá'",
"sense": "momentary",
"word": "בִּן רֶגַע"
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "momentary",
"word": "átmeneti"
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "momentary",
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"code": "ro",
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"sense": "momentary",
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"sense": "momentary",
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"note": "of food",
"roman": "zik¹ sik⁶",
"sense": "quickly prepared",
"word": "即食"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "quickly prepared",
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"sense": "quickly prepared",
"word": "kant-en-klaar"
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"sense": "quickly prepared",
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"word": "instantané"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "instant-"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "quickly prepared",
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"code": "hu",
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"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "quickly prepared",
"word": "gyors-"
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{
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"roman": "rastvorímyj",
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"word": "instantáneo"
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"code": "th",
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"sense": "quickly prepared",
"word": "สำเร็จรูป"
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"roman": "tekušt",
"sense": "of the current month",
"word": "текущ"
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"code": "fi",
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"roman": "kongetsu no",
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"word": "今月の"
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"code": "ro",
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"text": "He left the room for his relinquished sword, / And Julia instant to the closet flew.",
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