All 7 Uses of
succession
in
Bleak House
- Thus interrupted, Miss Jellyby became silent and walked moodily on at my side while I admired the long successions and varieties of streets, the quantity of people already going to and fro, the number of vehicles passing and repassing, the busy preparations in the setting forth of shop windows and the sweeping out of shops, and the extraordinary creatures in rags secretly groping among the swept-out rubbish for pins and other refuse.
Chpt 4-6successions = sequences
- His good friend Jarndyce and some other of his good friends then helped him, in quicker or slower succession, to several openings in life, but to no purpose, for he must confess to two of the oldest infirmities in the world: one was that he had no idea of time, the other that he had no idea of money.
Chpt 4-6succession = sequence (one after another)
- They meet again at dinner—again, next day— again, for many days in succession.
Chpt 10-12 *succession = a row (one after another)
- He looked at Ada, and at Mr. Jarndyce, and at Mr. Skimpole, fixing the same angry stare on each in succession as they passed and followed me.
Chpt 13-15succession = sequence (one after another)
- Mr. Guppy has been lolling out of window all the morning after trying all the stools in succession and finding none of them easy, and after several times putting his head into the iron safe with a notion of cooling it.
Chpt 19-21
- Mr. George directed another succession of quick bright glances at me as my guardian and I exchanged a word or two of surprise at the coincidence, and I therefore explained to him how we knew the name.
Chpt 22-24succession = series (one after another)
- This model composition is limited to the three words "And wishing yours!" which the old girl follows up with a nod at everybody in succession and a well-regulated swig of the mixture.
Chpt 49-51succession = sequence (one after another)
Definition:
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(succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)