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She survived a succession of catastrophes.
succession = series (one after the other)
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The Beatles went through a succession of drummers before asking Ringo Starr to join them.
succession = series (one after another)
- She was forced to resign after a succession of scandals.
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Several times in quick succession, her eyes betrayed her and glanced at the boys, the only faces she knew.
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He seemed to resonate with a kind of confidence that life was still nothing but a joke—an endless succession of soccer goals, trickery, and a constant repertoire of meaningless chatter.
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Isaac threw the last three eggs in quick succession and Gus then guided him back toward the car.
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From the street below came a succession of honks and the braying of a donkey, the whistle of a policeman.
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From down the atoll, the explosions were coming in rapid succession, each one louder and closer.
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If a long succession of Hogwarts headmasters and headmistresses haven't found the thing—
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Sam was born in 1959, and four other children, Stacy, Shawna, Shelly, and Shannon, followed in quick succession.
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- The so-called instructor nodded four times in quick succession. (source)
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Lilian, in 1943 and 1944 I lost my wife and son in short succession.
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Mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci created this succession of numbers in the thirteenth-century.
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They were perfectly content with a succession of B's and an occasional A or C. They were strong and fast runners and good at games, and when cracks were made about anybody in the Murry family, they weren't made about Sandy and Dennys.
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Werner is in the stairwell, halfway to the ground floor, when the 88 fires twice in quick succession.
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When she had borne her third son in succession, Okonkwo had slaughtered a goat for her, as was the custom.
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succession = a row (one after another without interruption)
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When I said I had no idea where we were, he cursed and pulled a succession of squealing U-turns, spitting arcs of tobacco juice from his window as I scanned the neighborhood for a familiar landmark.
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- In the succession of houses that Ralph had known, this one stood out with particular clarity because after that house he had been sent away to school. (source)
- a succession of abusive men and their babies, (source)
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In the years following Henrietta's death, using some of the first tubes of her cells, researchers around the world made several important scientific advances in quick succession.
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- Indignation, rage, indecision, agitation and much more crossed his face in rapid succession. (source)
- But then two disturbing things had happened in rapid succession. (source)
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When one young man took the ball the length of the field, dancing and dribbling through a succession of defenders before tapping in a shot, he looked toward Luma for acknowledgment of his prowess.
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'Ho-ho beriberi.' and 'Balls!' all rang out in rapid succession, and then there was Yossarian with the question that had no answer: 'Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?'
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It was a succession of minutes, but it hit them as a single whole.
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- Winston heard a succession of shrill cries which appeared to be occurring in the air above his head. (source)
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Scarlett could now understand a little better the boy who had made her wife, widow and mother in such rapid succession.
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- They roll up out of the water in succession, turning completely over, their legs stiffly extended as when they had lost contact with the earth. (source)
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As well as Martin he loved irregularity; by principle he never had his meals at the same hours two days in succession, and by choice he worked all night and made poetry, rather bad poetry, at dawn.
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succession = a row (one after the other)
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I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is TOO MUCH.
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Then the sled lurched ahead in what appeared a rapid succession of jerks, though it never really came to a dead stop again…. half an inch…. an inch…. two inches….
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The room echoed with the thuds in quick succession, and the stamping and kicking of the steers.
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Once the lightning had begun, it went on in as rapid a succession of flashes as I have ever seen.
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He flicked the horse with his whip, and we dashed away through the endless succession of sombre and deserted streets, which widened gradually, until we were flying across a broad balustraded bridge, with the murky river flowing sluggishly beneath us.
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He took a rest and then swelled himself up and fetched a succession of admirable groans.
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Holding his hands aloft, Father Ferapont suddenly roared: "Casting out I cast out!" and, turning in all directions, he began at once making the sign of the cross at each of the four walls and four corners of the cell in succession.
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- Again in extraordinarily rapid succession his best moments rose before his mind, and then his recent humiliation. (source)
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And now within all the automatic succession of theoretic phrases—distinct and inmost as the shiver and the ache of oncoming fever when we are discussing abstract pain, was the forecast of disgrace in the presence of his neighbors and of his own wife.
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Soon soft spirts alternating with loud spirts came in regular succession from within the shed, the obvious sounds of a person milking a cow.
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- He kept a whole row of pipes there ready loaded, stuck in a rack, within easy reach of his hand; and, whenever he turned in, he smoked them all out in succession, lighting one from the other to the end of the chapter; then loading them again to be in readiness anew. (source)
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A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-girt land.
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To everybody in succession, Captain Hopkins said: 'Have you read it?'
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A succession of loud and shrill screams, bursting suddenly from the throat of the chained form, seemed to thrust me violently back.
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- The young man knew quite well that, after the succession of misfortunes which had befallen his father, great changes had taken place in the style of living and housekeeping; but he did not know that matters had reached such a point. (source)
- Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear. (source)
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I tried all in succession.
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If there had not been a Netherfield ball to prepare for and talk of, the younger Miss Bennets would have been in a very pitiable state at this time, for from the day of the invitation, to the day of the ball, there was such a succession of rain as prevented their walking to Meryton once.
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succession = recurring (happening again and again)
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He had moved about two inches when several things happened in very quick succession.
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- The other guards gathered one by one. ... In succession, they crossed themselves. (source)
- Stands of prehistoric trees rise and fall and rise again in succession. (source)
- Three deafening cracks sounded in quick succession, and we all ducked as the sky flashed orange. (source)
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Magnets in the tube turned on and off in rapid succession to "push" particles around and around until they reached tremendous velocities.
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An alarmingly large and ferocious-looking man, Hagrid has been using his newfound authority to terrify the students in his care with a succession of horrific creatures.
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With best wishes, Yours sincerely, Mafalda Hopkirk Improper Use of Magic Office Ministry of Magic Harry read this letter through three times in quick succession.
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- In quick succession came the sweeping of chimneys, the clearing of pantries, and the shrouding of furniture. (source)
- The pilot buzzed my tent three times in quick succession, dropping two boxes on each pass; then the airplane disappeared over a ridge, and I was alone. (source)
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The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors.
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Then it scuffed the flashing with its claws and thrust its beak at the window several times in quick succession.
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The Count gave two more whistles in quick succession and the dogs, resigning themselves to the fact that the day was lost, trotted to the Count and heeled at his feet.
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Nina had explained these developments as one reports a series of scientific outcomes—a succession of facts that warranted our fear and indignation as much as would the laws of gravity or motion.
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In military fashion, he clicked his heels and greeted those assembled in rapid succession without showing the slightest indication of surprise as to their whereabouts:
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- Having noted your preferences over the sound of the orchestra, within minutes they would return with the various drinks balanced on a tray and dispense them round the table in rapid succession without misplacing a glass. (source)
- In the first fifteen minutes, six different administrative matters were raised and dispensed with in quick succession—leading one to imagine that this particular Assembly might actually be concluded before one's back gave out. (source)
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They've had two bad years in succession, but they have a bumper crop this fall-and they have to be able to harvest it.
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They came in quick succession: one, then another, and another, and possibly a fourth—witnesses would disagree—echoing between the buildings of the apartment complexes behind Indian Creek Elementary at about ten-forty Sunday morning.
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She faced, with the same look of detachment, a succession of men who went in and out of her office with over hurried steps and hands fumbling in superfluous gestures.
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In the next instant, he heard the dry crack of a gunshot, then three answering cracks in swift succession, like an angry hand slapping a sudden assailant.
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It was this shape that the screams were now tearing away from him; he felt as if the ringing ceased to be sounds and became a succession of slashes hitting his skull.
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Once he stayed there for two days and two nights in succession.
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Try staying awake for three nights in succession.
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succession = a row (one after the other without interruption)
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In the next two days a succession of witnesses testified for the plaintiff.
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They were so delighted with the song that they sang it right through five times in succession, and might have continued singing it all night if they had not been interrupted.
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succession = a row (each time immediately after the prior time)
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He is just above the top of the ford and the horse has a purchase of some sort for it surges forward, shining wetly half out of water, crashing on in a succession of lunges.
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The world became an inferno of noise and flame and trembling earth as one explosion followed another in earsplitting succession.
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What had once been a flat surface was now a succession of troughs and hillocks lifting and falling about us, shoving at us, teasing at us with light lazy touches in the vain instants of solidity underfoot.
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- Despite a succession of governesses and two years at the near-by Fayetteville Female Academy, her education was sketchy, but no girl in the County danced more gracefully than she. (source)
- Then, one day, at various times, a succession of young boys, painfully combed and unconvincingly washed, came to visit the reading room. (source)
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He heard three statements in his mind, in precise succession, like interlocking gears: It's spring—I wonder if I have many left to see—I am fifty-five years old.
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At the end there's nothing left, nothing unreversed or unbetrayed; as if there had never been an entity, only a succession of adjectives fading in and out on an unformed mass.
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- Oscarina went back home to help on the farm, and Carol had a succession of maids, with gaps between. (source)
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They meet again at dinner—again, next day— again, for many days in succession.
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succession = a row (one after another)
- I saw them close up their ranks six times in succession and march as if on parade. (source)
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They rose up, in such quick succession, that he could hardly count them.
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- Shots followed shots in rapid succession. (source)
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CHAPTER I. GRINGOIRE HAS MANY GOOD IDEAS IN SUCCESSION.
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The ambulance whirled under the hooded carriage-entrance of the hospital, and instantly he was reduced to a zero in the nightmare succession of cork-floored halls, endless doors open on old women sitting up in bed, an elevator, the anesthetizing room, a young interne contemptuous of husbands.
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Sherlock Holmes had been silent all the morning, dipping continuously into the advertisement columns of a succession of papers until at last, having apparently given up his search, he had emerged in no very sweet temper to lecture me upon my literary shortcomings.
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And he seated himself at the table; the waiter pulled a cork, and he took the bottle and poured three glasses of its contents in succession down his throat.
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It's very trying to have a drunken husband, you see; and it must be very trying to have twins three times in succession, don't you think?
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During all the intervening time my mental condition had been a hurrying succession of vague emotional states or a sort of stupid receptivity.
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In turn he took his place in the reading class and made a botch of it; then in the geography class and turned lakes into mountains, mountains into rivers, and rivers into continents, till chaos was come again; then in the spelling class, and got "turned down," by a succession of mere baby words, till he brought up at the foot and yielded up the pewter medal which he had worn with ostentation for months.
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But when he had missed four dinners in succession; when she had raged, "Can you imagine how awful it was for Mrs. Thorn to be short a man at the last moment?" when she had wailed, "I didn't so much mind your rudeness on the other nights, but this evening, when I had nothing to do and sat home alone and waited for you"—then he writhed.
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Three others tried it in sharp succession; and one after the other they drew back, streaming blood from slashed throats or shoulders.
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The wolf whirled about, pivoting on his hind legs after the fashion of Joe and of all cornered husky dogs, snarling and bristling, clipping his teeth together in a continuous and rapid succession of snaps.
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Then came the "floorsman," to make the first cut in the skin; and then another to finish ripping the skin down the center; and then half a dozen more in swift succession, to finish the skinning.
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Spring had come once more to Green Gables—the beautiful capricious, reluctant Canadian spring, lingering along through April and May in a succession of sweet, fresh, chilly days, with pink sunsets and miracles of resurrection and growth.
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He had had all the diseases that babies are heir to, in quick succession, scarlet fever, mumps, and whooping cough in the first year, and now he was down with the measles.
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- He was also to exhibit 'his astounding feat of throwing seventy-five hundred-weight in rapid succession backhanded over his head, thus forming a fountain of solid iron in mid-air, a feat never before attempted in this or any other country, and which having elicited such rapturous plaudits from enthusiastic throngs it cannot be withdrawn.' (source)
- Her anger, rage, and vexation; the rapid succession of bitter and passionate feelings that whirled through her mind; are not to be described. (source)
- Dinner was soon followed by tea and coffee, a ten miles' drive home allowed no waste of hours; and from the time of their sitting down to table, it was a quick succession of busy nothings till the carriage came to the door, and Mrs. Norris, having fidgeted about, and obtained a few pheasants' eggs and a cream cheese from the housekeeper, and made abundance of civil speeches to Mrs. Rushworth, was ready to lead the way. (source)
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She is third in line for succession to the throne.
succession = taking on the title and responsibilities
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Some investors are nervous that the founder and CEO is elderly, but others are comforted by a rigorous succession plan.
succession = replacement of someone who leaves a job or position
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The Speaker of the House is second in the line of the U.S. presidential line of succession.
succession = replacement
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When Soso breathed his last, there was no plan of succession, no obvious designee.
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succession = replacement (of someone to take a job or position after another person leaves it)
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The time she was removed from succession to the throne came back to Redd with the full force of its heart-stopping gall… The ever wise Queen Theodora announced that she could not allow such an unruly daughter to have queenly power.
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succession = filling a job or position with a new person after another person leaves it
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The Reverend Mother dare not become involved in the succession.
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The succession of his mistresses was so rapid that it ceased to be gossip.
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succession = replacement
- Rippleton Holabird was elected full Director now, in succession to Gottlieb, and he sought to use Martin as the prize exhibit of the Institute. (source)
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The line of succession rightfully ends with her.
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succession = filling a job or position with a new person after another person leaves it
- Always before, it has been the way of succession, but times have changed. (source)
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It is a mystical estate, an apostolic succession, from only begetter to only begotten.
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succession = replacement (of one person with another)
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I see the spots of the successions of priests on the earth, oracles, sacrificers, brahmins, sabians, llamas, monks, muftis, exhorters,
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successions = people taking over the job or position of those who were there before them
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With firm and regular step they wend, they never stop,
Successions of men, Americanos, a hundred millions,
One generation playing its part and passing on,
Another generation playing its part and passing on in its turn,
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How can that be, when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark?
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succession = replacement of the king
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Lastly, I would carefully record every action and event of consequence, that happened in the public, impartially draw the characters of the several successions of princes and great ministers of state, with my own observations on every point.
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successions = people taking positions no longer filled by another
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—Beware of them, Diana; their promises, enticements, oaths, tokens, and all these engines of lust, are not the things they go under; many a maid hath been seduced by them; and the misery is, example, that so terrible shows in the wreck of maidenhood, cannot for all that dissuade succession, but that they are limed with the twigs that threaten them.
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succession = replacement (other women replacing those who had previously seduced)
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Will they pursue the quality no longer than they can sing? will they not say afterwards, if they should grow themselves to common players,—as it is most like, if their means are no better,—their writers do them wrong to make them exclaim against their own succession?
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succession = replacement of their careers as children with careers as adults
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- We had a special knock by then, one knock followed by three more in quick succession.† (source)
- His mother and Doctor Papineau turned out the lights and all was quiet and then a succession of images came forward, resurrected by some crow-eyed part of his mind that would neither wake nor sleep.† (source)
- Separated by intervals of thirty hours or so, the other two suns also appeared in quick succession.† (source)
- Several more tanks detonated in rapid succession.† (source)
- The dorado did a most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession.† (source)
- Below them, a large circular opening had appeared in the largest building's roof, and three hovercars rose up through the gap in quick succession, screaming toward the city.† (source)
- They were hunting for a specific street, but all they found was a succession of dead ends, one after another.† (source)
- I sat and chewed my way through the dark-chocolate truffles that had arrived in silver baskets on the table, and drank three cups of coffee in quick succession so that as well as feeling drunk I felt jittery and wired.† (source)
- His life seemed to be marked by a succession of unfortunate misadventures.† (source)
- He heard a dial tone, then the tone of the numbers being automatically dialed in rapid succession.† (source)
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- We walked closer and sat at the edge of the sand and stared at the ocean, admiring the display of the waves in succession.† (source)
- He opened, in rapid succession, the three drawers on the right-hand side of the Rev. Mr. Merrill's desk; then he closed them, just as rapidly.† (source)
- Then, in succession, three more eyes opened.† (source)
- Her play was not for her cousins, it was for her brother, to celebrate his return, provoke his admiration and guide him away from his careless succession of girlfriends, toward the right form of wife, the one who would persuade him to return to the countryside, the one who would sweetly request Briony's services as a bridesmaid.† (source)
- From there, the other three failed in rapid succession.† (source)
- Lucas goes with her, opening the heavy doors in succession, each one clanging farther and farther away.† (source)
- Instead, he immerses himself in the guidebook, studying the history of Mughal architecture, learning the succession of emperors' names: Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jahangir, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb.† (source)
- As he did, a succession of conflicting emotions took hold of them: love, desire, tenderness, lust, shame …. fear of discovery.† (source)
- Avianca had just had four accidents in quick succession, Barranquilla, Cucuta, Madrid, and New York, and all four cases, the airline concluded, "had to do with airplanes in perfect flight condition, aircrew without physical limitations and considered of average or above-average flight ability, and still the accidents happened."† (source)
- You ought to have heeded Littlefinger when he urged you to support Joffrey's succession."† (source)
- Less than two months shy of his forty-seventh birthday, divorced for seventeen years, Doug confided to me that he'd been involved with a succession of women, each of whom eventually left him after growing tired of competing with the mountains for his attention.† (source)
- At a succession of very grand houses—great echoing places commandeered for the war effort—they had practised concealment, stealth, and sabotage.† (source)
- Pings three, four, and five come in rapid succession.† (source)
- In the couple of years after graduation, I went through a succession of jobs, working as a busboy at Outback Steakhouse, tearing ticket stubs at the local movie theater, loading and unloading boxes at Staples, cooking pancakes at Waffle House, and working as a cashier at a couple of tourist places that sold crap to the out-of-towners.† (source)
- I blinked several times in succession.† (source)
- I shot each of them in succession, saving us the hassle of ducking from their grenades.† (source)
- Silently she dressed, tied back her hair, and set herself to a succession of chores, beginning with tearing down the mosquito netting from all of our beds.† (source)
- The ship pitched again then, metal reverberating to a succession of blows, and Kassad was thrown against the wall of the boom-arm shaft.† (source)
- With a succession of signals and a very few words, he conveyed to me he knew all about the firefight on the mountain.† (source)
- Vice President Andrew Johnson was not present when Lincoln died, so the cabinet sent him an official notification of the president's death and of his succession to the presidency.† (source)
- On his orders his sanitary engineer, William S. MacHarg, built a water-sterilization plant on the fairgrounds that pumped lake water through a succession of large tanks in which the water was aerated and boiled.† (source)
- In quick succession, two waves passed over Mae.† (source)
- Now as I began to grasp the solitaire game, I wondered what Father's resistance to them had been—surely nothing could be more innocent than this succession of shapes called clubs, spades, diamonds….† (source)
- Bad things and good things are happening in quick succession.† (source)
- She was a big woman who, other than the large but unwelconiing swell of her bosom under the gray cardigan sweater she always wore, seemed to have no feminine curves at all , there was no defined roundness of hip or buttock or even calf below the endless succession of wool skirts she wore in the house (she retired to her unseen bedroom to put on jeans before doing her outside chores).† (source)
- I feel truly fortunate not to have been the first in a succession of Dale Thornton serial murders.† (source)
- Any one of those things, or all three in succession, one after the other.† (source)
- Katherine's words were coming out in rapid-fire succession now, explaining how this same magical substance appeared throughout the Ancient Mysteries: Nectar of the Gods, Elixir of Life, Fountain of Youth, Philosopher's Stone, ambrosia, dew, ojas, soma.† (source)
- Ammu had lost the latest of her succession of jobs—as a receptionist in a cheap hotel—because she had been ill and had missed too many days of work.† (source)
- They had spent the last thirty minutes driving north out of San Francisco, listening to the increasingly hysterical radio reports as a succession of experts gave their opinions about the bird attack on the bridge.† (source)
- She ate a dozen mouthfuls in quick succession, then rinsed her mouth out again.† (source)
- Buddha saw life as an unbroken succession of mental and physical processes which keep people in a continual state of change.† (source)
- Neighborhoods fell to the militants in startlingly quick succession, so that Saeed's mother's mental map of the place where she had spent her entire life now resembled an old quilt, with patches of government land and patches of militant land.† (source)
- We changed into our cotton gowns and made our way along a succession of covered walkways, leading through the dense foliage to a luxurious hot-springs pool at the other end of the inn.† (source)
- We had a succession of roomers, bringing and taking their different accents, and personalities and foods.† (source)
- The second and third foster families fell by the wayside in quick succession.† (source)
- I blinked several times in succession, helping my eyes hurry and adapt to the scant light.† (source)
- I will do as you think best about the succession, Grimstborith Orik.† (source)
- It had strained his imagination to think of two suitable gifts in such quick succession.† (source)
- Other questions were fired at me in quick succession.† (source)
- The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was introduced in 1949 and was followed in rapid succession by the Immorality Act, making sexual relations between white and nonwhite illegal.† (source)
- The man holding the lead rope shoots a succession of glances at me as he struggles to maintain control.† (source)
- The succession of little-to-do days, stretching longer and longer toward the longest day of the year.† (source)
- Behind him, house after gorgeous colonial house passed in rapid-fire succession, their colors winking at us through her window.† (source)
- They were well into the second game and he had taken both knights and a bishop when she made two moves in succession which gave him pause.† (source)
- As her date was nearing, the line of succession was the hot topic around Camp, as the town driver was the one prisoner who was allowed off the plantation on a daily basis.† (source)
- What do you know about the rule of succession in Eddis?† (source)
- His succession to this chair had resulted more from ties within the Party structure than from personal ability, and his position would depend on consensus rule for years, until such time as his will could dictate policy.† (source)
- He fired a Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew in fairly close succession.† (source)
- As soon as he cleared the edge of the hatch door, three shots rang out in quick succession.† (source)
- While Seabiscuit had spent the summer pillaging the West, War Admiral had been plundering the East with four triumphs in succession.† (source)
- He fired three times in rapid succession.† (source)
- Jeff Buschmann, on hand to witness the carnage, heard a succession of grunts as Adam hit branch after branch on his way down.† (source)
- Lou Lowery documented the proceedings with a steady succession of camera shots.† (source)
- I twined arms with a succession of momentary partners—dukes, earls, knights, squires—and back to Char.† (source)
- Watching the succession of her humiliations is like watching a child under torture.† (source)
- "The Parliament," said Bert, "called a council to debate the matter of succession.† (source)
- Baba and Uncle kowtowedthree times in succession, again and again.† (source)
- At least half a dozen shots were fired in rapid succession, like a string of powerful firecrackers.† (source)
- Here, it's a day for her to be proud, but she can't help staring at them— these smiling, polished people-and overhearing their jaunty melody of generational succession: a child's footsteps following their own, steps on a path that leads to prosperity's table and a saved seat right next to Mom and Dad.† (source)
- We waited in breathless suspense while a succession of strange noises came from behind the sheet: an expulsion of air, a sound like someone clapping their hands once, sharply—and then Miss Wren jumped up and took a shaky step backward.† (source)
- Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession.† (source)
- 'I know a new school is tough,' he told me as there were three more pings in quick succession.† (source)
- It was quite possible that they were in fact a succession of nameless dogs who happened to visit in twos.† (source)
- Then two more in rapid succession.† (source)
- And as I watched, seven flies landed in quick succession on the palm of his outstretched hand.† (source)
- Before the others could react, I shot the person from the bar, who likewise fell, and then the person beside her, all three in quick succession, taking less than one second.† (source)
- I walked, my eyes focused into the endless succession of barber shops, beauty parlors, confectioneries, luncheonettes, fish houses, and hog maw joints, walking close to the windows, the snowflakes lacing swift between, simultaneously forming a curtain, a veil, and stripping it aside.† (source)
- We may declare the succession overseas—even crown the man if necessary—but his presence will be required on English soil within the time period for full ratification.† (source)
- Abruptly, the image lunged, and as Roarke fired, other holograms appeared in rapid succession.† (source)
- The poor stayed poor and the upper class stayed rich under a succession of cruel, inept leaders.† (source)
- He crouched, then rose to his feet four times in succession, each movement faster than the previous one.† (source)
- Trying to respond as calmly as possible, Adams wrote and burned three letters in succession.† (source)
- He went to California to seek his fortune and lost a gullible succession of business partners there instead.† (source)
- She prays every Catholic prayer she knows in quick, calm succession.† (source)
- The Second Years struck twice in quick succession on a visibly frustrated Cynthia, who was an excellent goalie but unaccustomed to such sudden, speedy shots.† (source)
- Attacked in quick succession, before the attacks could be reported.† (source)
- He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine, fine—not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.† (source)
- During the years when Deo was growing up, a succession of military dictators ruled Burundi.† (source)
- 38 and fires four bullets in rapid succession.† (source)
- I am technically in the succession pool.† (source)
- A succession …. you know what I mean?† (source)
- The results will be annoying and maybe disbelieved by those who saw sinister forces conspiring to bring about the three crashes in rapid-fire succession.† (source)
- He himself had mentioned John Kwang as a part of that vanguard, though his implication was then cast only in terms of succession.† (source)
- Ten bolts of lightning hit so near the house, and in such rapid succession, that I thought I was going to fall down.† (source)
- Sometimes the masters thought they had heard the cry of a hoot owl, repeated, and would remember having thought that the intervals between the low moaning cry were wrong, that it had been repeated four times in succession instead of three.† (source)
- By leaving a lot of the members in place, uniformity and order, and the succession of official information, will be preserved.† (source)
- The flat sides of his weapons slapped in rapid succession against Wulfgar's cheeks, drawing thin streaks of blood.† (source)
- If everything went as planned, we were about to lay another egg in Hudson River, then targets in succession for three hours across that continent—"in succession" because Junior could not handle simultaneous hits; Mike had planned accordingly.† (source)
- Saladin pointed the silenced Glock through the open window and fired four shots in rapid succession.† (source)
- The chain of succession is assured, at least.† (source)
- What the various tenants did have, though, was visitors, lots of them, so that (as some of the doors were marked with numbers, some with letters, and some not at all) a day in residence was a succession of strange heads popping in, sometimes with bodies attached.† (source)
- Before SAC could use the weapons, the permission of the President—or his survivor in a line of succession—must be secured.† (source)
- The smell of a rainy Alabama night, the succession of sexual oddments turned me suddenly sick with dread at what this stranger would want.† (source)
- When he opened the door of his apartment/office she saw him framed in a long succession or train of doorways, room after room receding in the general direct ion of Santa Monica, all soaked in rain-light.† (source)
- By the end of the week he rode two horses in succession to a standstill.† (source)
- Suddenly the column broke, changed to a succession of puffs: in sequences of three; one large, one medium, one small.† (source)
- Her youth became a succession of two-room schoolhouses, boarding with families of preachers and farmers prosperous enough to have a spare couch to rent for a few dollars a month.† (source)
- Oscar tries vainly to trip Fred, Lincoln, and Cindy Lou in succession.† (source)
- And it will also serve to direct attention away from the succession within Trimurti and regain at least surface solidarity here in the City.† (source)
- His smiles came in succession like waves breaking on the surface of a little lake.† (source)
- He would have several, and would move around from one to the other, probably never sleeping in the same place two nights in succession.† (source)
- They served as temporary town officials and as minor commissars in the army and the health department, and they looked upon this succession of tasks as an outdoor sport, a diversion, a game of blindman's buff.† (source)
- The whole of this scene must be played very fast, each repeating in swift succession: 'Oh, a rhinoceros!† (source)
- And finally, at age seventy, having distinguished himself as a brilliant Secretary of State, an independent President and an eloquent member of Congress, he was to record somberly that his "whole life has been a succession of disappointments.† (source)
- There was a succession of glares and crashes.† (source)
- CROMWELL It is the Act of Succession.† (source)
- Three low-grade operatives in succession were smitten with Miss Duffy Wyg& and retired in disgrace to don their uniforms once more.† (source)
- The woman had called Kathy four times in rapid succession, cursing and carrying on.† (source)
- She answered three queries in rapid succession, with an average of 99.† (source)
- There's no way for nine amps to get through that without tripping all three in rapid succession.† (source)
- Vie fires three rounds in quick succession, and a fireball illuminates one whole side of the ship.† (source)
- The balls fell into the pockets in such rapid succession, I lost count.† (source)
- You're eliminated if you roll three times in succession without getting any of the numbers you need.† (source)
- Instead of school, Laura and I were provided with a succession of tutors, men and women both.† (source)
- He fired three shots in rapid succession: "Bam, bam, barn—fast as the body fell to the floor.† (source)
- You served my sister well in the matter of the succession.† (source)
- The pair went back and forth in rapid succession, making offers and counteroffers until Ms.† (source)
- A year after the divorce, her father had had a stroke, then three more in rapid succession.† (source)
- He pressed down again, now three times in rapid succession.† (source)
- They will all want a voice in the succession.† (source)
- Along the way they passed a succession of improbable rock formations.† (source)
- He squeezed the trigger in rapid succession.† (source)
- Then he kneed Roran in the ribs three times in quick succession.† (source)
- And the Doorbell Rings Not just once, but three times, in quick succession.† (source)
- The laws of succession are clear in such a case.† (source)
- In quick succession, they killed six more men, but there seemed to be no end of them.† (source)
- In rapid succession the computer flashed the number of nine more gaskets that were breaking down.† (source)
- Two more shots go off in rapid succession.† (source)
- By law Sansa is next in line of succession, so Winterfell and the north would pass to her.† (source)
- Having you act as my emissary is our only hope of influencing the succession of the dwarves.† (source)
- More booming explosions followed in quick succession, surrounding us.† (source)
- But the task was more nearly like the labors of Hercules, a succession of varied obstacles.† (source)
- Did Balon say aught to you of the succession?† (source)
- He's ahead of me in the line of succession even though I'm older."† (source)
- Succession will take place the instant JFK is declared dead.† (source)
- Until the presidential succession is official, he will deliver no orders.† (source)
- The feast was a meager enough thing, a succession of fish stews, black bread, and spiceless goat.† (source)
- Music, trade, history, wine, the dwarf's penny …. the laws of inheritance and succession.† (source)
- Then I get bumped twice more in rapid succession.† (source)
- I ducked into several shops in quick succession, holding out a bill and stammering, "Dozan."† (source)
- Gunshots fire in rapid, overlapping succession.† (source)
- He was nine or ten, I believe …. and ninth or tenth in the line of succession as well.† (source)
- Tyrion had been so ensnared in his own troubles that he'd never stopped to consider the succession.† (source)
- Heard Jelly shout, "In succession, man the boat — move!"† (source)
- And so follows a miserable succession of bugle-blowing prisons, grim reveille-ridden summer camps.† (source)
- MORE You want me to swear to the Act of Succession?† (source)
- We heard the acting platoon sergeant call out: "In succession, prepare to embark!"† (source)
- MORE (Hotly) The Apostolic Succession of the Pope is(Stops; interested) ….† (source)
- Both of these gentlemen were known to have been childless and 308 thus eligible for a succession of Handmaids.† (source)
- Like all horses accustomed to a succession of strange riders the beast is obstinate, with a hard mouth, and tries twice to scrape him against fences.† (source)
- He shared a dorm suite — one cramped room either side, silverfish-ridden bathroom in the middle — with a fundamentalist vegan called Bernice, who had stringy hair held back with a wooden clip in the shape of a toucan and wore a succession of God's Gardeners T-shirts, which due to her aversion to chemical compounds such as underarm deodorants — stank even when freshly laundered.† (source)
- There would be time enough to deal with the succession when Arya and Sansa were safely back in Winterfell, and Lord Stannis had returned to King's Landing with all his power.† (source)
- While Ahmad was seeing every corner of the world in rapid succession, Zeitoun was back home in Jableh, and he wanted out.† (source)
- EVEN BEFORE TANTE Anna's death in the late 1920s, the empty beds in the Beje were beginning to till up with the succession of foster children who for over ten years kept the old walls ringing with laughter and Betsie busy letting down hems and pant cuffs.† (source)
- A few hours later, the remaining slots on the Scoreboard began to fill up, one after another, in rapid succession.† (source)
- Police officers, an ambulance, the rescue squad, the fire brigade, reporters and sightseers arrived in rapid succession.† (source)
- I had performed two rather substantial pieces of sympathy in quick succession and was feeling rather thickheaded because of it.† (source)
- That's the blacktop square where a succession of SEAL instructors have laid waste to thousands of hopes and dreams and driven men to within an inch of their lives.† (source)
- Bloom thought a moment, hummed a tune, then plinked it out on the keyboard one note at a time: Over the next century this tune and its variations would be deployed in a succession of mostly cheesy movies, typically as an accompaniment to the sinuous emergence of a cobra from a basket.† (source)
- I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes—toward an infinity of unsatisfying and disagreeable endings.† (source)
- As the tuna was making its way, visibly, through the shark's digestive tract, the shark ate two more in rapid succession.† (source)
- Willem had long since left the parish ministry, where his habit of speaking the hard truth had made a succession of congregations unhappy, and had started his nursing home in Hilversum, thirty miles from Haarlem.† (source)
- Then half a dozen other poons strike in quick succession, and she has to force herself not to lean over and look out the window.† (source)
- Clients seemed so surprised to work with a painter or contractor they could trust and recommend that through referrals and in rapid succession Zeitoun would get a half-dozen jobs in any given neighborhood.† (source)
- During this time the doctor came and went, and a succession of crisp, brittle nurses occupied the easy chair in the bedroom.† (source)
- Vibrant, colorful images flashed forward in my mind in rapid succession, hitting me like bullets from a machine gun.† (source)
- If not, I shall convene the council to hear his final words and consider the matter of the succession, but I will not dishonor his last hours on earth by shedding blood in his halls and dragging frightened children from their beds.† (source)
- The import of what Dina Smith has to say is that all of the shots, as she heard them, were fired in rapid succession, just as Williams said.† (source)
- Francis was a desperate man who'd never had a childhood, had no doubt tried all his life to please those around him, the succession of foster parents who had no intention of keeping him.† (source)
- Arwad had been a strategic military possession for an endless succession of sea powers: the Phoenicians, the Assyrians, the Achaemenid Persians, the Greeks under Alexander, the Romans, the Crusaders, the Mongols, the Turks, the French, and the British.† (source)
- After the breakup, Hiro went out with a long succession of essentially bimbos who (unlike Juanita) were impressed that he worked for a high-tech Silicon Valley firm.† (source)
- Von Rottinger and I were at fault when we failed to deal properly with the succession after I got sick.† (source)
- And it was Julia who stood by her husband's side during the 1850s, when he was discharged from the army and failed in a succession of businesses.† (source)
- It showed it three times in succession.† (source)
- At table one, a brunette named Melissa, desperate to get her date to talk, asked him in quick succession, "If you had three wishes, what would they be?† (source)
- She always wears this cardigan, and a succession of dark skirts, which can't possibly be the same one.† (source)
- At the same time, she gradually became conscious of a succession of warm, smelly, and rhythmic breezes on her cheek.† (source)
- But when we stopped for lunch and lemonade, barn, barn, barn, there came the questions in rapid succession.† (source)
- She blinked in quick succession.† (source)
- He took her twice, in quick succession.† (source)
- Raising his voice, Jormundur said, "By the right of inheritance and succession, we have chosen Nasuada.† (source)
- He took three steps and then leaped into the air, executed a spectacular roundhouse, landed on his hands, rolled forward, and came up with two stunning kicks Tom wouldn't have thought possible in succession.† (source)
- After Lourdes and Rufino got married, his brothers followed in quick succession, marrying pretty, dull-eyed girls from families approved by Doña Zaida herself.† (source)
- Terri Carlson was fifty-one and a Libra; both her parents were dead and she had three sons which her husband had given her in rapid succession some thirty years ago before running off with a Texan rodeo queen.† (source)
- "You aren't the only ones with unusual talents," said a young man at the edge of the crowd, and then in quick succession he growled like a bear and yowled like a cat, throwing his voice from one place to another with slight turns of his head so that it sounded like we were being stalked from all directions.† (source)
- Although over the decades there have been many stories that I was in the line of succession to the Thembu throne, the simple genealogy I have just outlined exposes those tales as a myth.† (source)
- "Neither the morals of Epictetus or the stoic philosophy of the ancients could avail to allay the tumult of grief excited by such a succession of distress," she wrote to John Quincy.† (source)
- Today the hills are haunting, vague as spirits fooled into being, each blurring into the next in cool bronze succession.† (source)
- Olivia sighed, sitting back and stretching her arms over her head as two minivans pulled into the lot in front of us in quick succession.† (source)
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