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I heard that yesterday morning, and thought that the golden blessing which preceded it would last the dear saints only knew how long. [10]
And when this wretch in the purple shall close his eyes, he, like the rest of the criminals who have preceded him on the throne, will be proclaimed a god! [10]
The modern world, which was our generation, would seem to be cut off from all that preceded it as with a descending knife. [9]
When the gale, which preceded the thunderstorm, blew leaves and straws in through the open window she started violently, imagining that Herr Ortlieb had come to call her to account and her trial was to begin. [10]
The intellectual contest which preceded the physical was stirring the hearts of all men. [4]
The Neapolitan regiment, which preceded the Kustrin one, presented an entirely different appearance with its shorter, brown-skinned, light-footed soldiers. [10]
The king himself was to take the lead at the head of the ten thousand Immortals, preceded by the blue, red and gold imperial banner and the standard of Kawe. [10]
Mr. Ridout's place was second in this invaluable volume, he being preceded only by a harmless patriarch. [9]
We may not venture, perhaps, to say so sweeping a thing as this in cold blood about any monarch that preceded her upon either her own throne or upon any other. [5]
Barbara had often used them when watching in the dusk of evening for her lover's litter or, at a still later hour, for the torch-bearers who preceded it. [10]
It followed The Trail of the Sword and preceded The Seats of the Mighty, and appeared in the summer of 1895. [11]
Those sittings added to those that have preceded them since I have been in Europe--if we average at that rate--must have numbered one hundred to two hundred sittings. [5]
At the same time the vanguard which, by Joshua's orders, preceded the travellers, halted, and the whole train stopped. [10]
From time to time the silence was broken by a trumpet-blast from the royal tent; first when the Asiatic princes were introduced into the Council-tent, then when the Danaid king departed, and lastly when the Pharaoh preceded the conquered princes to the banquet. [10]
He sojourned some time in Dresden, whither his reputation had preceded him, and where he was cordially and familiarly received, not only by the foreign residents, but at the prim and antiquated little court of King Frederick Augustus and Queen Amalia. [4]
At that moment there came a knocking at the door, then it was thrown open, and there stepped inside the Earl of Leicester, preceded by a page bearing a torch. [11]
No one preceded them to clear the river, no other vessel made way for them; on the contrary, all tried to take place ahead of them, and to reach the opposite shore before them. [10]
All joined in the toast, and after the cheers had died away, Aquanus said: "Who would not gladly recall the exquisite Sunday of October third; but when I think of the misery that preceded it, my heart contracts, even at the present day. [10]
At the pylon, the princess descended from her chariot, and preceded by the chief of the haruspices, who had gravely and silently greeted her, passed on to the door of the temple. [10]
The rumour of the entry of Mr. Giles Henderson of Kingston into the gubernatorial contest preceded, by ten days or so, the actual event. [9]
The landlord of The Blue Pike respectfully preceded him and ushered him directly to the Nuremberg party, while he requested the Dominican monks who accompanied him to wait. [10]
As soon as the baggage train had passed, the commander of the band of prisoners wished to set off, but the "openers of the way," who preceded the archers, forbade him, because it was not seemly for convicts to mingle with soldiers. [10]
The truth is that the country cousins had come to town to attend the Yearly Meeting, and the amount of shopping that preceded that religious event was scarcely exceeded by the preparations for the opera in more worldly circles. [5]
To prove that Tell did shoot the apple from his son's head would merely prove that he had better nerve than most men and was skillful with a bow as a million others who preceded and followed him, but not one whit more so. [5]
There was a stir at the other end of the room, now; the assemblage fell apart, and Tom Canty, quaintly but richly clothed, marched down, between these living walls, preceded by an usher. [5]
The chief procession started with the lighting of the bonfires: Singing softly, choristers and acolytes in robes preceded the devout Cure, and pious believers and youths on horseback, with ribbons flying, carried banners and shrines. [11]
When the organ sounded, and through a low door in the chancel the priest entered, preceded by a couple of acolytes, and advanced swiftly to the reading-desk, there was an awed hush in the congregation. [4]
Moreover, the colossal six preceded the little six and had done the mischief before they were born. [5]
Many had already seen the great monarch in his shining, golden chariot, drawn by four splendid horses; but such an array of torch-bearers as now preceded Caracalla was a thing never seen within the memory of the oldest or most traveled man. [10]
May his ashes rest in peace, while his spirit goes to take its station among the great and good men who preceded him. [7]
The travellers were received at the Hohenort Gate by Captain Van Duivenvoorde, preceded by an old sergeant, carrying a lantern, who opened the gate. [10]
There is a quality in this letter more suggestive of the later Mark Twain than anything that has preceded it. [5]
Nevertheless with the pulmoniferous gasteropods, or land-snails, the pairing is preceded by courtship; for these animals, though hermaphrodites, are compelled by their structure to pair together. [1]
Other people have preceded you half an hour to scramble for impossible places and lose their tempers, but you can take your time; the courier has secured your seats for you, and you can occupy them at your leisure. [5]
The whirlwind which preceded the bursting of the storm blew such clouds of dust and everything it contained into their faces that it was difficult to advance. [10]
The Indian always preceded murder by the war-whoop; and this was an advantage that the artillery had in the fight with the elderberry Indians. [4]
The news had preceded me there. [4]
We had been preceded in our climb all the way by a huge bear. [4]
Mr. Lincoln had preceded him, and was even then listening to a few remarks of burning praise by an honorable gentleman. [9]
Charmian's confession was preceded by the statement that she longed for rest yet, nevertheless, was ready to remain with her royal friend, in every situation, until she no longer desired her services and sent her away. [10]
The intruders were preceded by men-servants, whose torches lighted the long, lofty storehouse brilliantly. [10]
Creation is always preceded by chaos. [6]
Karnis, Herse, and Orpheus, among others, had made their way thither from the timber-yard, down the dry conduit, and an almost incessant stream of the adherents of the old gods had preceded and followed them. [10]
The only occasion on which I have not preceded a very long novel of life in a new field, by a very short one, is in the writing of 'The Judgment House'. [11]
He showed the officers who preceded the cardinal such furniture and stuff as he had, but it did not please them. [4]
The Comes went off at once to the Hippodrome, preceded by hundreds who had hurried off to tell the assembled multitude that Alexandria had lost her god. [10]
A strong odor of various fragrant essences preceded her. [10]
Still, he would not succumb till the instrument of his ruin had preceded him to the grave. [10]
But this was not according to the new dispensation--that is, the dispensation which shrewdly followed the settlers, who as shrewdly preceded the railway. [11]
There is a most elaborate and voluminous Index, and it is preceded by this note: 'This Index will enable the student to find any thought or idea contained in the book. [5]
Before these two men entered the house, they were joined by a third, preceded by two servants carrying lanterns. [10]
The practice of making a profit on the medicine ordered has been held up to reprobation by one at least of the orators who have preceded me. [3]
Peterson Dunlap afterwards made up a fine name for this engagement, and also for the night march which preceded it, but both have long ago faded out of my memory. [5]
A faint, musical jingle preceded his step--then his tall form crossed the threshold. [13]
The news of, his success had preceded him, and while he waited for the train, he was the center of a group of eager questioners, who asked him a hundred things about the mine, and magnified his good fortune. [5]
I never read his item to see whether there was anything wrong about it, but hastily wrote the few lines which preceded it, and sent it to the printers. [5]
Then she preceded him towards the staircase, where Iras was standing with a tall Syrian, who bore a striking resemblance to Philostratus, Barine's former husband. [10]
He had preceded him as a student at the Oneida Conference Seminary and at Hamilton College. [4]
Ere reaching it, he saw two gentlemen, preceded by a servant carrying a lantern, cross the causeway towards it. [10]
It is because he rejects the experience of those who have preceded him, that the world is kept in the topsy-turvy condition which we all rejoice in, and which we call progress. [4]
But before this he had to wait a moment, for he was preceded by an important personage. [4]
The inquiry what he found lacking here was already rising to Barbara's lips when the syndic's wife came toward her, preceded by her daughter Martina, who, radiant with joy at seeing the ardently admired singer in her own house, kissed her with fervent affection. [10]
But after we had shared the Keilhau holiday, and what preceded and followed it, we could not decide which was the most enjoyable. [10]
For his genius had preceded that of Selamlik Pasha, the friend of the Mouffetish at Cairo, by one day only. [11]
M. de Mauprat had preceded her by not more than five minutes. [11]
At last, a gossip of Mrs Nubbles's, who had accompanied her to chapel on one or two occasions when a comfortable cup of tea had preceded her devotions, furnished the needful information, which Kit had no sooner obtained than he started off again. [12]
Before he can go off again, two or three others have preceded him. [4]
Who could have forgotten the tale of the beautiful cap of the unhappy Meister Mertein, who has preceded us into the other world? [10]
Before he piously followed the latest and most amply endowed batch of settlers, who had in turn preceded the new railway to the Fort, the word scandal had no place in the vocabulary of the citizens. [11]
Falchion' was my first real novel, as I have said, though it had been preceded by a short novel called 'The Chief Factor', since rescued from publication and never published in book form in England. [11]
Some of the events that preceded the Mavick ball throw light upon that interesting function. [4]
While the lady Euryale preceded her young charge with a lamp up a narrow, dark staircase, Alexander waited in one of the audience-rooms till the emperor should call him. [10]
At first I could not bear to recall the events that had preceded and followed my visit to Krebs that Sunday morning. [9]
Yet she succeeded controlling herself, and, without a word reply, preceded the harsh man into the sleeping room and silently, tearlessly, pointed the chest. [10]
The tragedy is closing, so the play (doubtless he said so) which preceded it would be but a wearisome repetition if performed a second time. [10]
Of the Twentieth Century, industrial democracy is the watchword, even as political democracy was the watchword of the two centuries that preceded it. [9]
Behind him a cavalry regiment was coming down the hill preceded by its singers. [2]
He had been careful to begin both of his inquest-statements with the fight, without confessing the grave-robbery that preceded it; therefore it was deemed wisest not to try the case in the courts at present. [5]
There was the broad, dowager woman, preceded by a meek, shrinking little man, whose whole appearance was an apology. [4]
Near a hundred blind men preceded the bier, chanting the death-phrases. [11]
A Chinaman hardly believes he could enjoy the hereafter except his body lay in his beloved China; also, he desires to receive, himself, after death, that worship with which he has honored his dead that preceded him. [5]
But we may be encouraged by one thing that distinguishes this period--say from the middle of the eighteenth century--from any that has preceded it. [4]
I must here be allowed to italicize a remark of the biographer's concerning Harriet Shelley: "That no act of Shelley's during the two years which immediately preceded her death tended to cause the rash act which brought her life to its close seems certain. [5]
It attracted great attention, both on account of the circumstances that preceded it and the events which speedily followed, and threw a light upon it that gave it a spectacular importance. [4]
Three days later, at Elmira, New York, he was laid beside Mrs. Clemens and those others who had preceded him. [5]
The Spanish artist appeared at noon, but did not come alone, and the man, who preceded him, was no less important a personage than the king himself. [10]
Paaker preceded her, and rolled a flat piece of limestone, inlaid by nature with nodules of flint, under the stone pavilion, crushed a few scorpions which had taken refuge there, spread his head-cloth over the hard seat, and said, "Here you are sheltered. [10]
The bands are always preceded and followed by a great crowd as they march through the streets, people who seem to live only for this half hour in the day, and whom no mud or snow can deter from keeping up with the music. [4]
His fame as a powerful speaker had preceded him, and exaggerated rumor of his wit--the worst forerunner of an orator--had reached the East. [7]
Polyandry would be a natural stepping-stone to communal marriages or almost promiscuous intercourse; though the best authorities believe that this latter habit preceded polyandry. [1]

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