Adjective : three successive days. ,the second successive day. From Dictionary.com.
There may be said to be three leading phases which the word successively presents, three steps in its history. From Wordnik.com. [English Past and Present] Reference
My father had brought up a young person, who had been his footman, valet, secretary, and in short successively all in all. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life] Reference
He then joined Imperial Oil Limited where he made his mark in successively more responsible assignments until he gained the Presidency in 1960. From Wordnik.com. [The Incredible Resource Battle] Reference
Lenten sermons in Venice, and his success was so great that he was called successively to all the principal cities of the peninsula. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
Father between each ten, while at each of these fifteen decades we recall successively in pious meditation one of the mysteries of our. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
After a reign of 3000 years, Ormuzd had created the Material World, in six periods, calling successively into existence the Light, Water, Earth, plants, animals, and Man. From Wordnik.com. [Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry] Reference
I shall name successively, from north-north-east to south-south-west, the different chains seen by M. Bonpland and myself as we approached the equator and the river Amazon. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
(1458-64) later gave him two titles successively, those of Patriarch of Constantinople and Archbishop of Cyprus, neither of which he could convert into real jurisdiction. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
10th of January, 1793, the scaffold of the Martyr-King had been erected, in the middle of the Place called successively the Place. From Wordnik.com. [The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X] Reference
Smith was successively first elder, prophet, seer, and revelator. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
He had successively knocked with feverish hand at all the doors of. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"The beloved is successively the malady and the remedy," Chloe says. From Wordnik.com. [what you do best] Reference
He cuts his green beans into successively smaller pieces he doesn't eat. From Wordnik.com. [Sissyneck] Reference
Two or more objects are before the mind and the attention occupies itself with them successively. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Here my regiments came into action well, but successively, and were driven back, each in its turn. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Explanation of the principal elements and facts, out of which was framed successively the Roman law. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Besides, his horses, his books, his domestics, and his journals arrived successively to dispel ennui. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the twelve following years he was successively Rector of the Colleges of Spoleto, Fermo, Forli, and. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
The young woman fell back upon her seat as if every fibre in her body had been successively torn to pieces. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In the last 20 years, life of a teen or young adult has become successively more intense, with no end in sight. From Wordnik.com. [Kari Henley: Sleep Is Not Just for Babies] Reference
And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 10: 2 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
If Amedee had been presented to twelve thousand maidens successively, they would have inspired twelve thousand wishes. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Ludovic was destined for the civil service, and, after finishing his studies, entered successively the Department of State. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Twelve messengers entered successively, attired in various disguises; one appeared to be a Swiss soldier, another a sutler. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He turned, in pronouncing those words, successively to each of his three listeners, who all bowed, with the exception of the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
My niece sings, and the curate and I-- 'Arcades ambo' -- respond successively -- he on the bass-viol and I on my Stradivarius. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
However, it is possible, and it is convenient, to direct attention successively upon the one and the other aspect of his environment. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, you may recall, successively whipped dozens of Dem Senators into supporting the public option. From Wordnik.com. [Big mo? Two more Senators call on Obama to appoint Elizabeth Warren] Reference
Then Madame Prune makes her appearance; in an agitated and discomposed manner she successively adopts every attitude expressive of dismay. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Having been successively hairdresser, sexton, school-teacher, nurse, and gardener, he had ended, when sixty years old, by falling back to the very point whence he started. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
By a process attended with no difficulty, no delay, no expense but that of removal, the citizen of one might become the citizen of any other, and successively of the whole. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Favored from the beginning with the luckiest cards, followed by the most fortunate returns, Paul Landry scored successively "forty, bezique," five hundred and fifteen hundred. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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