Successively

Examples

• So saying, he pointed successively to two corners of the hut. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Four fine mornings successively were spent in this manner, in shewing the Crawfords the country, and doing the honours of its finest spots. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• After numerous experiments, in which the dimensions of the screw were successively diminished, the propeller was at length reduced to two oblique blades. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• In the handling of line work, eight skilled men successively handle each plate. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Many different commodities, it is probable, were successively both thought of and employed for this purpose. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Another experimenter, Dumont, made use of a single large plate and a great number of lenses which were successively exposed. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A number of receptacles containing charges of calcium carbide are made to successively receive a regulated quantity of water, the gas being collected in a rising and falling holder. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But the American cuckoo is in this predicament, for she makes her own nest and has eggs and young successively hatched, all at the same time. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He thought of it all day long, and for many days successively, and he did not repent. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Let us try it upon each of them successively. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Recovering from the first effects of his surprise, he took Waldemar Fitzurse and De Bracy aside, and put the billet into their hands successively. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Successively, it requires that each act be balanced with those which precede and come after, so that order of activity is achieved. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Take two or three pills at bedtime, for several nights successively. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The cards were successively and intermittently fed to a set of needles, which latter, by rising and falling, raise or lower the warp threads attached to the same. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The boy was the only survivor of a large family, who had been successively sold away from her to a southern market. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

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