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Sentences starting with succession

Succession must be made sure. [11]

Sentences ending with succession

Philip's first motion was to stand up and say: "I dare not think your Highness means in very truth to make me your kinsman in the succession. [11]
Thy one plea was succession. [11]
But other news too was carrying through the town: the French Government, having learned of the Duke's intentions towards Philip, had despatched envoys from Paris to forbid the adoption and deed of succession. [11]
Then he went to the courts and to the holy men, and claimed succession. [11]
He asked people to pass their hands through their hair (thus collecting upon them a thin coating of the natural oil) and then making a thumb-mark on a glass strip, following it with the mark of the ball of each finger in succession. [5]
Hers is almost the last, and the very small last, of a great succession. [4]
Presently he learned that three days hence a meeting of the States of Bercy was to be held for setting the seal upon the Duke's formal adoption of Philip, and to execute a deed of succession. [11]
As they were swinging slowly along the engine suddenly fell into a panic, puffing and sending up shrill shrieks of fear in rapid succession. [4]
Also for another series of cases, Mr. Sidey's, five or six in rapid succession. [3]
With Barbara, thought, resolve, and action followed one another in rapid succession. [10]

Short sentences using succession

Sixteen in succession, all fatal. [3]
Succession! [11]

More example sentences with the word succession in them

Wakf----Mahommedan Court dealing with succession, etc. [11]
She knew full well, he said, that his living loves changed in frequent succession, and it would be strange indeed if a dead one could bind him any longer. [10]
If by accident we wake at two in the morning a couple of nights in succession, we have need to be uneasy, for another repetition can turn the accident into a habit; and a month's dallying with whiskey --but we all know these commonplace facts. [5]
For some time we continued winding along the brinks of precipices, overhung with cragged and fantastic rocks; and after a succession of such rude and sterile scenes we swept down to Carolina, and found ourselves in another climate. [4]
Once the succession was secure beyond the imbecile Leopold John, then he would certainly declare against the present fiendish Government and for the overthrown dynasty. [11]
Suppose I turn upon one of them a steam-jet during a long succession of hours. [5]
The voyage thence up the Derwent Frith displays a grand succession of fairy visions, in its entire length elsewhere unequaled. [5]
Five minutes after two shots were fired in quick succession, and there was a rush to the parlor from which the reports came. [5]
Next in succession to him was Just Trafford, his cousin. [11]
Iowa and Minnesota, to both of which the Missouri restriction applied, had, without its repeal, each in succession, territorial organizations. [7]
Thus pleasantly conversing, they arrived at the first house on the list, and afterwards went through a succession of them. [9]
By divine commission there were bishops, priests, and deacons in the new hierarchy, and it was through the Apostolic Succession that he, their rector, derived his sacerdotal powers. [9]
In one place there was a public building which was fenced about with a thick, rusty chain, which sagged from post to post in a succession of low swings. [5]
Through his brain there ran a succession of queries and speculations, and dominating them all one clear question-was he to gain anything by this strange conversation? [11]
If he writes the same word twice in succession, by accident, he always erases the one that stands second; has not the first-comer the prior right? [6]
It is worth the price of admission to hear the guide tell the story nine times in succession to different parties, and never miss a word or alter a sentence or a gesture. [5]
They talked by the hour upon all sorts of themes, the growth of the tree, the habits of wild animals, the migration of seeds, the succession of oak and pine, not to mention theology, and the mysteries of the supernatural. [4]
Both halves of the book, in which ever since the wedding at Delft he had written a succession of verses to Maria, lay in his hand. [10]
He had forgotten that sovereign dukes must make sure their succession even unto the third and fourth generation. [11]
A verse was sung, then a chorus altogether, then a refrain of one verse which was sung by each boat in succession to the last. [11]
Immediately came a succession of thundering knocks upon the cabin door, followed by-- "Hullo-o-o! [5]
It was a succession of paupers; not one of them was ever able to pay his passage to England or institute suit. [5]
It is a stream full of character, not navigable even for trout in the upper part, but a succession of falls, cascades, flumes, and pools that would delight an artist. [4]
Along its banks sprang up in succession the generations of man. [4]
Though an eldest son and next in succession to an earldom, he was still young. [4]
The road was smooth; it led up and over and down a continual succession of hills; but it was narrow, the horses were used to it, and could not well get out of it anyhow; so why shouldn't the drivers entertain themselves and us? [5]
Once or twice she was encored five and six times in succession, and received with hisses when she appeared, and discharged with hisses and laughter when she had finished--then instantly encored and insulted again! [5]
Zorrillo offered the sergeant-major a chair, and after the latter had raised and emptied two beakers from the barmaid's pewter waiter in quick succession, he glanced around the circle of his rebel comrades. [10]
He took a rest and then swelled himself up and fetched a succession of admirable groans. [5]
I am under promise to go to Italy, where I am to be the guest of a succession of the noblest houses in the land. [5]
It is a precarious kind of property, too; a succession of total eclipses would probably ruin this tavern. [5]
The Duke was overjoyed, and thereupon secretly made ready for Philip's formal adoption and succession. [11]
And on the other hand, an attentive and intelligent hearer, listening to a succession of wise teachers, might become actually better educated in theology than any one of them. [6]
She countermanded the order, and sent another, to the officer in command of a battery, to stand ready to fire five shots in quick succession. [5]
If to amuse or forget himself he had caroused far more nights in succession in Alexandria, why should he not keep awake when the object in question was to wrest a young life from the grasp of death? [10]
He was the only son of his beloved sister, a fatherless and motherless lad, so he had never enjoyed the uninterrupted succession of precepts and lessons which only a mother can give and a defiant young spirit will accept from her alone. [10]
The cold brought on severe toothache; toothache was the cause of a succession of restless miserable nights; and long wakefulness told acutely upon her nerves, making them feel with redoubled sensitiveness all the harass of her oppressive life. [14]
If Detricand, Prince of Vaufontaine, be not secured in his right of succession to the dukedom of Bercy, France will not cease to protest till protest hath done its work. [11]
Without this continuity of thought and emotion, history would present us only a succession of meaningless experiments. [4]
The formal statement of this succession of ripening characteristics need not be repeated, but the fact must be borne in mind. [6]
For the lilies of the field, in their season, and the fairest flowers of the year, in due succession, were clustered every Sunday morning over the preacher's desk. [6]
My own recollections of the evening, unclouded by its festivities, but confused by its multitudinous succession of introductions, are about as definite as the Duke of Wellington's alleged monosyllabic description of the battle of Waterloo. [6]
From the time of Hippocrates to that of our own medical patriarch, there has been an apostolic succession of wise and good practitioners. [3]
After the deaths of her son and husband in such rapid succession, she felt herself a being accidentally forgotten in this world and left without aim or object for her existence. [2]
The great principle of evolution stands up clear and firm, when these groups or facts are considered in connection with others, such as the mutual affinities of the members of the same group, their geographical distribution in past and present times, and their geological succession. [1]
The quick succession of events at that time called forth the following expression of Miss Bronte's thoughts on the subject, in a letter addressed to Miss Wooler, and dated March 31st. [14]
Found a succession of deep tracks across a farm near here. [5]
Surely the house of Bercy has cause for joy, with an imbecile for the first in succession and a traitor for the second! [11]
The question, being now fully before Congress, came up in a variety of ways in rapid succession, on most of which occasions Mr. Clay spoke. [7]
Question and reply now followed one another in rapid succession, and both were soon acquainted with everything worth knowing; nay, Hermon had even delivered Daphne's rose to his friend, and informed him what had befallen the Gaul who was being brought into the house. [10]
All this was not so much like a succession of events as it was like a tableau. [6]
We went three nights in succession. [5]
Then for the next two hundred years the family tree shows a succession of soldiers--noble, high-spirited fellows, who always went into battle singing; right behind the army, and always went out a-whooping, right ahead of it. [5]
Then for the next two hundred years the family tree shows a succession of soldiers--noble, high-spirited fellows, who always went into battle singing, right behind the army, and always went out a-whooping, right ahead of it. [5]
I will serve my country honourably abroad, or rest peacefully here on my own estate, lifting no hand against your Highness, though I hold to the succession in the monarchy. [11]
Yet--yet somehow he must carry on the farce of being single until the adoption and the succession had been formally arranged. [11]
The great pageant moved on, and still on, under one triumphal arch after another, and past a bewildering succession of spectacular and symbolical tableaux, each of which typified and exalted some virtue, or talent, or merit, of the little King's. [5]
He called to mind a long succession of loving passages between his father and himself, and dwelt fondly upon them, his unstinted tears attesting how deep and real was the grief that possessed his heart. [5]
It is twenty-five miles long, and from one to three in breadth, a free growth of stately pines, whose boughs are full of music and sweet odors,--a succession of lovely glades and avenues, with miles and miles of drives over the springy turf. [4]
The authorities of Middletown are evidently leagued with the surgeons of that place, for such a break-neck succession of pitfalls and chasms I have never seen in the streets of a civilized town. [6]
You have told me three times in succession, in exactly the same words, that I was the only true friend you had in the world that you would unbutton your heart to. [6]
Wilibald Pirckheimer and Lienhard Groland also frequently forgot the fresh salmon and young partridges, which were served in succession, to share this brilliant novelty. [10]
One of the last things which Brigham Young had done before leaving Iowa, was to appear in the pulpit dressed to personate the worshipped and lamented prophet Smith, and confer the prophetic succession, with all its dignities, emoluments and authorities, upon "President Brigham Young! [5]
On the long journey hither he had constantly anticipated the pleasure of telling every incident in succession, just as it had happened; but Barbara interrupted his first sentence with an inquiry how her John was faring. [10]
But suppose--suppose that it was so--suppose that through Guida the further succession might presently be made sure, and suppose he went to the Prince and told him all; that might win his favour for her; and the rest would be easy. [11]
To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation. [6]
Eva had gazed into vacancy a long time, and beheld a succession of pleasing pictures, in every one of which, Heinz Schorlin appeared. [10]
The various inherited instincts ripen in succession. [6]
Also to several instances of individual pupils having had a succession of cases in various quarters of the town, while others, practising as extensively in the same localities, had none. [3]
The pictures passed in succession with such rapidity that they appeared almost as if simultaneous. [6]
He alluded often, in oblique phrase, to adoption and succession. [11]
Uarda was published in 1876, twelve years after the appearance of An Egyptian Princess, to be followed in quick succession by Homo Sum, The Sisters, The Emperor, and all that long line of brilliant pictures of antiquity. [10]
Sebastian Dolores had impatiently waited for this later "musicale" to begin--he had heard it often before; and when it was at last a regular succession of nasal explosions, he crawled out and began to do the business which had brought him to the Manor Cartier. [11]
She felt as if intoxicated, and the bright tears flowed in slow succession down her cheeks. [10]
Come in here; I can tell it better over a mug of beer, and the legs rebel if they're deprived of rest four nights in succession. [10]
In order that his own progeny might succeed him, he set aside the Salique law (which had been imposed by France) just before his death, in 1833, and revived the old Spanish law of succession. [4]
It was now his one ambition to arrange a new succession excluding the Vaufontaines, a detested branch of the Bercy family. [11]
Our father, on his deathbed, decreed that if no son were born to Ulrich, the succession should pass to my house, provided a son were born to me. [5]
He even told her that his Majesty was occupying himself with his last will, the payment of his debts, the arrangement of the succession, and the choice of his burial place. [10]
Originally a lawyer, he was in succession a mechanician, a poet, and an editor, meeting with far less success in each of these departments than usually attends men of less varied gifts, but of more tranquil and phlegmatic composition. [6]
In bygone years he had not seen the chaos, but the illusion of an orderly world, a continual succession of sunrises, 'couleur de rose', from the heights above Bremerton. [9]
The next morning he delivered a woman with the forceps; she died also, and of many others who were seized with the disease within a few weeks, three shared the same fate in succession. [3]
He appears to have a mortal dread of telegraph poles, especially; and it is fortunate that these are on both sides of the road, because as it is now, I never fall off twice in succession on the same side. [5]
And so it has happened to me and to every person, often and often, to be hit in rapid succession by these twinned facts or thoughts, as if they were linked like chain-shot. [6]
The last rebuff had been the succession to the Seigneury, which, curious as it might seem, had been the cherished dream of the rich man's retirement. [11]
So his life had been spoiled by the most cruel disappointments, by a succession of the bitterest wrongs. [10]
This conclusion is greatly strengthened, if we look to the members of the whole animal series, and consider the evidence derived from their affinities or classification, their geographical distribution and geological succession. [1]
Races, when a great deal is at stake, are more or less chaotic: a close four miles in a college eight is a succession of blurs with lucid but irrelevant intervals. [9]
A limpid torrent goes whistling down the glen, and toward the foot of it winds through a narrow cleft between lofty precipices and hurls itself over a succession of falls. [5]
He cared naught for the succession, but there was ever with him the remembrance of Guida Landresse de Landresse, and what touched Philip d'Avranche he had come to associate with her. [11]
It was remarkable for the long succession of clergymen in its genealogy, and for the large number of college graduates it counted on its rolls. [6]
During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the Government. [7]
Sometimes the party drove, extending their explorations miles among the hills, exhilarated by the sparkling air, excited by the succession of lovely changing prospects, bestowing their compassion upon the summer boarders in the smartly painted boarding-houses, and comparing the other big hotels with their own. [4]
According to Mr. Doubleday, "the noise is produced by the insect raising itself on its legs as high as it can, and then striking its thorax five or six times, in rapid succession, against the substance upon which it is sitting. [1]
He had a double motive in preventing this new succession. [11]
Her society, indeed, did not seem to satisfy the clever older woman, who at home, was accustomed to a succession of visitors, and to whom the word "evening" was synonymous with lively conversation and a large gathering. [10]
On other bright days when the waves and surges swelled, white foam crowned their crests, and a never-ending succession of breakers dashed upon the shore, she believed the fifty daughters of Nereus were pursuing their sports under the clear water. [10]
Not just one day, but one hundred and twenty days in hardly varying succession. [5]
He lived, from day to day, in a bewildering succession of encouragements and trials, all unprecedented. [9]
Philip recalled that day at Bercy when the Duke stooped and signed his name upon the deed of adoption and succession three times-three fateful times. [11]

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