Predecessor

Examples

• In this field of telegraph application, as in others, Edison was a very early comer, his only predecessor being the fertile and ingenious Callahan, of stock-ticker fame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• On the contrary, the cannon was the predecessor of the musket and its successors. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Before its birth generation after generation of the human family lived and died, and each was but little wiser, and but little better than its predecessor. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Louis XV was the great-grandson of Louis XIV, and an incompetent imitator of his predecessor's magnificence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• One must not think of a nomadic stage as a predecessor of a settled stage in human affairs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• This Helena will be an apple of discord, as was her predecessor of Troy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The next day was as fine as its predecessor: it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The name of Professor Dingo, my immediate predecessor, is one of European reputation. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Each occasion surpassed its predecessor in the beauty of construction of the machines displayed and efficiency of their work. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Kepler's genius was complementary to that of his predecessor. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• It was a much more stately and far less successful and enthusiastic expedition than its predecessor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was following up the work of his great predecessor Diocletian. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Its predecessor, the Median Empire, had endured for half a century. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So, here was another earthquake of which I became the sport, before I had recovered from the shock of its predecessor! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• King George III, who had begun his reign in 1760, was resolved to be much more of a king than his two German predecessors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And truly is he so spoken of, said the Grand Master; in our valour only we are not degenerated from our predecessors, the heroes of the Cross. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In connection with this problem it is interesting to note that this question of high speed was apparently regarded by all Edison's predecessors as the crucial point. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Thus educated, they will invent for themselves any lesser rules which their predecessors have altogether neglected. Plato. The Republic.
• They have succeeded to the organisation which their predecessors established in this country. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors; now, don't you? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Each new generation would simply have repeated its predecessors' existence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Bell took up immediately and energetically the idea that his two predecessors had dropped--and reached the goal. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It may be stated as broadly true that Edison engineered to handle immense masses of stuff automatically, while his predecessors aimed chiefly at close separation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He was no early convert as his two predecessors had been; he had joined the Prophet for reasons of policy in fair give and take. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He may have learnt this custom from his Iberian neighbours and predecessors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But who amongst us is optimistic enough to hope that the men who sit in the mighty positions are going to make a better show of themselves than their predecessors did over the trust problem? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• This time diagram again is on a larger scale than its predecessors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At length, just before my departure, he told me he had, on better consideration, concluded not to mix his accounts with those of his predecessors. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.

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