Precede

Examples

• The stranger insisted on making Mr. Godfrey precede him; Mr. Godfrey said a few civil words; they bowed, and parted in the street. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The discovery may long precede its adaptation in physical form, and both the discovery and adaptation may occur together. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Exercise should precede meals, not immediately follow them; the first promotes, the latter, unless moderate, obstructs digestion. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It may be that several partial leagues may precede any world league. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is upon the word educational that stress must be laid, and upon the idea that information must precede consultation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It came, and she had yet heard nothing of her return--nothing even of the going to London, which was to precede her return. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• That gentleman had gradually passed through the various stages which precede the lethargy produced by dinner, and its consequences. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• 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.
• The preceding saws were of the straight, reciprocating kind. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is not to be inferred, however, from some of the preceding statements that the boy was of an exclusively studious bent of mind. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her pulse was much stronger, and every symptom more favourable than on the preceding visit. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• In the preceding Section, we learned that many houses heated by hot water are supplied with fresh-air pipes which admit fresh air into separate rooms or into suites of rooms. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And this may be received as a convincing argument for our preceding doctrine with regard to property and justice. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• In these preceding ten sections we have been dealing with an age of division, of separated nationalities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We have already glanced at this story in § 8 of the preceding chapter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• 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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