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Definition
following (some event in time) — and typically because of that event
- And she put her small hand upon his and a little scuffle ensued, Tom pretending to resist in earnest but letting his hand slip by degrees till these words were revealed: "I LOVE YOU."Chapter 6 (94% in)
- Huck felt that a silence was going to ensue—a thing still more awful than any amount of murderous talk; so he held his breath and stepped gingerly back; planted his foot carefully and firmly, after balancing, one-legged, in a precarious way and almost toppling over, first on one side and then on the other.Chapter 29 (85% in)
There are no more uses of "ensuing" in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
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