Both Uses of
succession
in
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- 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.
Chpt 6 *succession = sequence (one after another)
- 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.
Chpt 12succession = series (one after another)
Definition:
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(succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)