Preceded

Examples

• The horses were post; and neither the carriage, nor the livery of the servant who preceded it, were familiar to them. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• A good skirmish line preceded each of these columns. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She opened the door to the Inspector, and preceded him into the study. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• But all these occurrences preceded the final day. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• So far as we know the wasp alone preceded the ancient Orientals in the making of paper. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The dice have been loaded by all the successes which have preceded. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• And do you remember the word of caution which preceded the discussion of them? Plato. The Republic.
• Under the old tactics almost every change in the order of march was preceded by a halt, then came the change, and then the forward march. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Shall the despair of success make me assert, that I am here possest of an idea, which is not preceded by any similar impression? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• She locked it after admitting me, as she had done before, and again preceded me into the dark passage where her candle stood. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• An immense amount of painstaking and highly ingenious experiment preceded Edison's successful result. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Major Bailey was the cadet who had preceded me at West Point. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• He followed her as, wrapped in her vivid green wrap, she preceded him with the light. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Let us first glance, however, at the activities of those scientists who preceded Bacon in the employmen t of the experimental method. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Oersted, in 1827, preceded him with important preliminary steps, and Deville, in 1854, followed in the first commercial applications. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Cyclones are preceded by a singular calm and a great fall of the barometer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It was your journal of the four months that preceded my creation. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• General Wallace, I found, had preceded me an hour or more. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• With my staff and a small escort of cavalry I preceded the troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• By an ironical accident the new system of disturbances was preceded by a peace festival in London, the Great Exhibition of 1851. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The invention of printing machines was preceded by the manufacture of inking rollers, to supersede the pelt balls for distributing the ink over the types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The adult dentition is preceded by a widely different milk dentition. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• So far from it, he declares at the end of a full account of what has preceded his arrival there, I had very little idea of making myself known. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He is now much recovered from his illness, and is continually on the deck, apparently watching for the sledge that preceded his own. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• It had been preceded by an equal zeal for socialism, which had in turn replaced an energetic advocacy of Christian Science. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Here feeling perplexed I began to think over what had preceded. Plato. The Republic.
• Crocker moved his division forward, preceded by a strong skirmish line. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But suddenly she walked forwards, and opened the study door, and preceded him to the door of the house, which she threw wide open for his exit. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• At this point Sherman came up, having reached Graysville with his troops, where he found Palmer had preceded him. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The Count preceded us, and waited in the passage till I came out and told him that we had recovered her from the swoon. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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