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series or sequence (one after another)
- 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.Chapter 23 (1% in)
succession = series (one after another)
- Indeed, whatever being uttered that fearful shriek could not soon repeat it: not the widest-winged condor on the Andes could, twice in succession, send out such a yell from the cloud shrouding his eyrie.Chapter 20 (3% in)
- They were fresh now as a succession of April showers and gleams, followed by a lovely spring morning, could make them: the sun was just entering the dappled east, and his light illumined the wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down the quiet walks under them.Chapter 20 (72% in)
succession = a row (one after the other)
succession = series (one after another)
There are no more uses of "succession" in Jane Eyre.
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