Citations:instead of

Preposition: In lieu of

 * 1623 — William Shakespeare, 1 Henry IV, act v, scene 2 (First Folio edition)
 * Dow. The Lord of Stafford deere to day hath bought Thy likeneſſe : for inſted of thee King Harry, This Sword hath ended him


 * 1742 - Henry Fielding, The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and his Friend, Mr. Abraham Abrams
 * Do not riches bring us to solicitude instead of rest, envy instead of affection, and danger instead of safety?


 * 1833 — John C. Calhoun, Remarks of Mr. Calhoun of South Carolina on the bill to prevent the interference of certain federal officers in elections: delivered in the Senate of the United States February 22, 1839
 * It was thus that, instead of relief—instead of an equal distribution of burdens and benefits of the government, on the payment of the debt, as had been fondly anticipated...


 * 1921 — Richard Aldington, The Faun Complains from ("Poems of the war and the peace")
 * They give me aëroplanes Instead of birds and moths; Instead of sunny fields They give me mud-holes;


 * 2007 — Donald J. Sobol, Encyclopedia Brown Cracks the Case
 * Chief Brown sat staring at his salad instead of eating it.