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Sentences ending with predecessors

I grant you, without the slightest unwillingness, that they were a deal more gentle and merciful and just than were the people of Europe of that day; I grant you that they are better than their predecessors. [5]
We have discovered the sure path for all intellectual labor, the true scientific method; and an observant study of things as they are, succeeds better with us than it did with our predecessors. [10]
It took its place with the others, and was in some points a clearer exposition of my views and feelings than either of the other books, its predecessors. [6]
Mr. Choate has mentioned Mr. Reid's predecessors. [5]
The advent of Master Langdon to Pigwacket Centre created a much more lively sensation than had attended that of either of his predecessors. [6]
Here and there, lonesome prisoners had eased the heavy time by altering the records left by predecessors. [5]
I did not know how much to put in, but thought I would be guided by my predecessors. [5]
There is an impression that advanced readers have improved much in quality within a few years, and doubtless some of them do contain specimens of better literature than their predecessors. [4]
I hope I have not wholly disappointed those who have been so kind to my predecessors. [6]
The banker-dinosaurs, the gigantic ones, were in Wall Street, and strove among themselves for the industrial spoils accumulated by their predecessors. [9]

More example sentences with the word predecessors in them

It is quite within the possibilities that, a century hence, people would wonder and say, "How did your predecessors come to bury their great dead in this deserted place? [5]
The laughing loves who twined their rose garlands around him and Helena's predecessors had nothing to do with this grave maiden. [10]
But I thought what a different color the locks these brushes smooth show from those that knew their predecessors in the earlier decade! [6]
The latter, though victorious over their predecessors, may not have become better adapted for all places in the economy of nature. [1]
Each in his turn those little supernaturals of our by-gone ages and aeons joined the monster procession of his predecessors and marched horizonward, disappeared, and was forgotten. [5]
Travelers who come to America always freight up with the same old nursery tales that their predecessors selected, and they carry them back and always work them off without any trouble in the home market. [5]
The astronomer observes this and that; adds his this and that to the this-and-thats of a hundred predecessors, infers an invisible planet, seeks it and finds it. [5]
Others would succeed them rapidly, coming up the center while their predecessors filed down the sides; so that the whole field was a moving mass of splendid color and glancing steel. [4]
I would collect that bill, or fall, as fell my predecessors, trying. [5]
T. De Witt Talmage is of the same material as that used in the construction of his early predecessors in the ministry; and yet one feels that there must be a difference somewhere between him and the Saviour's first disciples. [5]
He was so rich that the gifts of the visitors to the temple, which his predecessors had insisted on, were of no importance to him. [10]
Of Smith's English predecessors on this coast there is no room here to speak. [4]
To fall back on the errors of the time is very proper when we are trying our predecessors in foro conscientace: The houses they dwelt in may have had some weak or decayed beams and rafters, but they served for their shelter, at any rate. [6]
In all branches of culture, their heathen predecessors went far beyond them. [6]
But I was not satisfied with what my predecessors had created. [10]
I can make no better show than most of my predecessors in this well-reaped field. [3]
Hadrian had striven more earnestly than his predecessors to raise the fallen dignity of the Senate, and still he could count securely on its consent to any measure. [10]
He mentioned a long list of those predecessors, people I never heard of before, and elected five of them to the Presidency by his own vote. [5]
Whosoever will compare it with its predecessors will have no trouble in arriving at that decision. [5]
This fellow's predecessors have kept mine more or less familiar with them for close upon a hundred and fifty years. [5]
For more than half of my term of office I gave instruction in Physiology, after the fashion of my predecessors and in the manner then generally prevalent in our schools, where the physiological laboratory was not a necessary part of the apparatus of instruction. [3]
Now and then, half an hour apart, one came across solitary log cabins of the earliest mining days, built by the first gold-miners, the predecessors of the cottage-builders. [5]
It is my desire to do what I can to help make your administration a notable advance upon those of your predecessors. [9]
One of its consequences was that my portrait was sketched by "Old Unger" in the so-called "Bergwacht Book," which contained the likenesses of all my predecessors. [10]
At last, directly behind his equipage, came Pharaoh himself; but he did not go to battle like his warlike predecessors in a war-chariot, but preferred to be carried on a throne. [10]
To me they are indebted for the pure gold of a peaceful welfare as citizens--to me and to my predecessors, the Saitic kings! [10]
It was not any more important than its predecessors. [5]
He welcomed him and wished that he might recover his lost sight as warmly as his predecessors. [10]
Then turning with a very simple gesture to the bust before him he said: "Hapless clay, if the lovely lady whom thou art destined to resemble will not sacrifice the chaos of her curls, thy fate will undoubtedly be that of thy predecessors. [10]
We do not "drop a tear" so often as our Della Cruscan predecessors, but the memory of the author of the "Vicar of Wakefield" stirred my feelings more than a whole army of crusaders would have done. [6]

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