Preceding

Examples

• 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.
• A series of turbines are set one after the other on the same axis, so that each takes steam from the preceding one, and passes it on to the next. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He had dined at the Parsonage only the preceding day. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• If not, I beg the reader to allow me the same liberty, which I have used in the preceding case, of supposing it such. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The preceding lines, rightly understood, express an entire system of philosophy. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Out of the few simple machines mentioned in the preceding Sections has developed the complex machinery of to-day. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• To the silence of the preceding moment, now succeeded murmurs of discontent, and agitations, and whispers and shrugs. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But this is a secondary consideration, and dependent on the preceding notions of justice and property. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The day preceding Madame's fête was as much a holiday as the fête itself. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But in the twelve years preceding 1764 including that year, the average price of the same measure of the best wheat at the same market was ? 2:1:9?d. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I never, myself, saw the treatment described in the preceding paragraph, but have heard it described by persons who have witnessed it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Clean the surface of the article, as in the preceding preparation, and apply the mixture by rubbing on with a cork or piece of soft leather moistened with water and dipped in the powder. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Thus it may be said that illuminating gas and the new century were born together--the former preceding the latter a little and lighting the way. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The preceding Section has shown clearly the danger of too strong a current, and the necessity for limiting the current to that which the wire can safely carry. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Lighthouses are also distinguished from those of preceding centuries by the substitution of iron and cast steel for masonry. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Slowly the expedition retraced its steps of the preceding day. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In the preceding Section we saw that undue pressure of a gas may cause explosion. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It had been laid by on the night preceding my sad journey and never resumed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They walked in the same manner up the stairs without speaking, and Mr. Brownlow, preceding them, led the way into a back-room. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• There was the coat in its usual place, but exhibiting, on a close inspection, evident tokens of having been worn on the preceding night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Nothing could have saved him, except the remarkable strength and activity of the noble horse which he had won on the preceding day. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• To prove the ideas of passion and desire not to be innate, they observe that we have a preceding experience of these emotions in ourselves. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The Army of the Tennessee had won five successive victories over the garrison of Vicksburg in the three preceding weeks. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Is it a third, or akin to one of the preceding? Plato. The Republic.

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