Successive

Examples

• The variability, however, in the successive generations of mongrels is, perhaps, greater than in hybrids. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The Babylonian astr onomers also observed that the successive vernal (or autumnal) equinoxes follow each other at intervals of a few seconds less than a year. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The amount of organic change, as Pictet has remarked, is not the same in each successive so-called formation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• As one operation of carding is not sufficient for most purposes the cotton is subjected to one or more successive cardings. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Moreover, between each successive formation we have, in the opinion of most geologists, blank periods of enormous length. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This little instrument was slung in a case looking like a cartridge box, and its sensitive roll was able to receive 100 successive pictures. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The same effect would be produced if the disc, during its rotation, were seen by successive electric sparks. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• When one coating became sufficiently hard another was added, and smoked in turn, and so successive coatings were applied until a sufficient thickness was obtained. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• In short, direction is both simultaneous and successive. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Nevertheless, their genealogical ARRANGEMENT remains strictly true, not only at the present time, but at each successive period of descent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It is highly probable that each successive state is the result of the action of gravity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The first machine to perform multiplication by means of successive additions was invented by Leibnitz in the year 1671 and completed in 1694. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In successive generations a great development both of bodily and mental qualities might be possible. Plato. The Republic.
• The tube was raised by successive lifts of 6 feet each, and, as it was lifted, the space was built in with masonry for its ultimate bearing. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• 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.
• He began with the history of Galvanism, de tailed the successive discoveries, and described the different methods of accumulating influence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• So it is with hybrids, for their offspring in successive generations are eminently liable to vary, as every experimentalist has observed. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• In this case all the water moves, indeed, towards the gate, but the successive times of beginning motion are the contrary way, viz. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• If he had not looked at me before, he looked at me now in three or four quick successive glances. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Bards have written of the cestus of Venus, that turned the heads of all the world in successive generations. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The English system consists more in the use of extended and successive reservoirs or beds of sand alone, or aided by the use of the sulphate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The ridge encircling the screw is called the thread, and the distance between two successive threads is called the pitch. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Many subsequent improvements have been made, one type of which employs a succession of rolls which act in pairs on the grain one after the other and reduce it by successive gradations. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The force of gravity and the centrifugal force sufficed to maintain in its orbit each successive planet. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The rollers operate in sets, and successive crackings are obtained by passing and repassing, if necessary, the grain through these rollers, set at different distances apart. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The successive steps of the development in detail of the various features of the locomotive are distributed over a long period, and are somewhat difficult to trace. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It thus reveals the successive causes of social progress. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In Mr. Shepherd's arrangement, the impulse of the pendulum is given by successive blows from a spring, which is drawn back and then liberated at each vibration. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They probably came in successive waves. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In more recent times the design was cut in relief on hard wood, the relief being then daubed with coloring matter and applied by hand to successive portions of the cloth. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.

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