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Durancy

Durancy \Dur"an*cy\, n. Duration. [Obs.]
--Dr. H. More.

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durancy

n. (context obsolete English) duration

Usage examples of "durancy".

She was very glad that she was not Abe Durancy, and that it was morning.

Queen City, all the old, layered information Durancy had loved, was bleeding into her.

Abe Durancy, of his mad wild visions, which were now spilling and growing and metamorphosing and mutating all around her, and thought, he was happy.

It all seemed to go quite well, and besides I can be human again, sometimes, and play with my little memories of Blaze and Sphere and Durancy, push them around like dolls.

She went over it again, seeing it all in pictures, deciding how to sharpen a detail here and there with a fillip of metascent, trying to forget Durancy and his endless loop, hoping that she had expelled him from herself but fearing that she had not, that he was a part of her very cells forever, through endless incarnations.

It was almost like when the Durancy assemblers had activated her, but this was not alien, foreign, like him.

Her Self, her pre-Durancy Core, like a strong, cool stone, radiated from some beautiful center, wiping away all that was past, and the way she had been used by Rose, Durancy, India, and the City.

Blaze and Durancy both slid across the floor and slammed into the window.

Cincinnati, with Mount Adams rising behind it, all the beautiful Flower-Buildings of which Durancy had dreamed long ago, so long ago that no one could even remember when that had been, exactly.

Verity wondered if they would remember what had happened to them in the City after the nan surge, the overlay of personality after personality, role after role, in the ecstatic dance that Durancy and India and even Rose had led them on.

Rose and of Cincinnati and of Abe Durancy himself, echoing within her, pulling her.

We rushed on into the night, Durancy and I both mad and caught in the rush of the river.