All 3 Uses of
sequence
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- She looked down to see emeralds, a long sequence of dark stones, caught in the gold stream of the chain against her skin.†
p. 89.5 *sequence = arranged in a specific order
- Against the light were negatives he'd developed the week before: a series of photos of a human vein, taken in sequence, in gradations of precisely controlled light, the level of contrast changing subtly with each one.†
p. 152.7
- Then Sam had traced the shaft of variegated light on her thigh with his finger, and slowly she'd felt her own sharp edges begin to soften, to blur, her emotions bleeding one into another in mysterious sequence, from darkest indigo to gold, reluctance transforming, mysteriously, to desire.†
p. 294.4
Definition:
a set of things arranged or happening in a specific order -- often chronological order