Both Uses of
ensuing
in
A Christmas Carol
- But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents.†
Chpt 2
- Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course—and in truth it was something very like it in that house.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(ensuing) following (some event in time) -- and typically because of that event