Precedes
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Examples
- The conception always precedes the understanding; and where the one is obscure, the other is uncertain; where the one fails, the other must fail also. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- Such facility sickened him--but he told himself that it was with the pang which precedes recovery. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Upon these occasions, a lady's character generally precedes her; and Highbury has long known that you are a superior performer. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I immediately perceive, that they are contiguous in time and place, and that the object we call cause precedes the other we call effect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- As this last-named operation precedes the crushing, let us first consider it as it was projected and carried on by him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This experiment, which is analogous to the one that precedes, was explained by Nicholson, in 1832, in his _Journal de Physique_. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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