Both Uses of
succession
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- He took a rest and then swelled himself up and fetched a succession of admirable groans.
Chpt 6 *succession = series (one after another)
- 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.
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(succession as in: a succession of events) series or sequence (one after another)