All 8 Uses of
succession
in
David Copperfield
- To everybody in succession, Captain Hopkins said: 'Have you read it?'
Chpt 10-12 *succession = sequence (one after another)
- This, and many offers to lend him a knife for the purpose, exasperated him to such a degree, that the whole day was a succession of rushes on his part, and flights on the part of the boys.
Chpt 13-15succession = series (one after another)
- When I took the road again next morning, I found that it lay through a succession of hop-grounds and orchards.
Chpt 13-15
- There have been times when I have administered a succession of facers to them; there have been times when they have been too many for me, and I have given in, and said to Mrs. Micawber, in the words of Cato, "Plato, thou reasonest well."
Chpt 16-18
- Mr. Micawber extended his hand to each of us in succession, and then covered his face with his pocket-handkerchief, which I think had more snuff upon it than he was aware of.
Chpt 28-30succession = sequence (one after another)
- Mr. Micawber resumed his seat on the close of these remarks, and drank two glasses of punch in grave succession.
Chpt 34-36succession = a row (one after the other)
- In the taking of legal oaths, for instance, deponents seem to enjoy themselves mightily when they come to several good words in succession, for the expression of one idea; as, that they utterly detest, abominate, and abjure, or so forth; and the old anathemas were made relishing on the same principle.
Chpt 52-54succession = sequence (one after another)
- During the last few minutes, Mrs. Heep had been clamouring to her son to be 'umble'; and had been going down on her knees to all of us in succession, and making the wildest promises.
Chpt 52-54
Definition:
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(succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)