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Example sentences for "regular succession"

  • Bobby watched him a moment in silence, methodically laying away the used brass shells, one up and one down in regular succession.

  • In another moment at a second tinkle of the bell the tug had gathered headway, and the little boy was watching with delight the sandhills and buildings on one side and the other slipping by in regular succession.

  • He could not see the tug at all until it had gone beyond the bridge, only its smoke; but the masts of the ship passed stately in regular succession.

  • In the widest sense, a dividing into short portions by a regular succession of motions, impulses, sounds, accents, etc.

  • Defn: A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.

  • Defn: A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.

  • A division of lines into short portions by a regular succession of arses and theses, or percussions and remissions of voice on words or syllables.

  • We find a regular succession of Bishop-abbots down to the advent of the Danes.

  • During the subsequent centuries, down to the Anglo-Norman invasion, a regular succession of bishop-abbots was preserved, and recorded in the church of Cork.

  • There was, however, always a regular succession of these poets whose duty it was to get by rote the historical traditions of their predecessors, which were thus preserved for posterity.

  • A regular succession of tones or chords; the movement of the parts in harmony; the order of the modulations in a piece from key to key.

  • The cliffs elevated themselves from the river's edge like a regular succession of enormous pillars, rendered more striking by their ashy hue.

  • If, however, this power was not exercised, the kinsmen had a right of claiming the daughter by a judicial process; and the right to marry her went round in a regular succession.

  • To each volume was added a summary of the contents, and, in regular succession, the journal of the military operations of the year.

  • On entering the gallery, you might, perhaps, be tempted to stop in the first hall; but we will visit them all in regular succession, and proceed to that which is now the furthest on the left hand.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accepted from; also will; born days; cloth boards; could observe; dark eyes; each colony; early dinner; flung back; girl reaches; high command; independent state; popular edition; processed foods; regular armed; regular army; regular course; regular distances; regular form; regular indigenous military forces; regular military; regular order; regular siege; regular succession; see how; wanted them