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Example sentences for "succeeding"

Lexicographically close words:
succeede; succeeded; succeeders; succeedest; succeedeth; succeeds; succes; success; successe; successes
  1. Great was the joy at Government House when Captain Douglas informed the family of Lieutenant Trevelyan's being transferred to the succeeding regiment.

  2. Maude accepted the proffered arm of Gerald to stroll beneath the inviting branches of the dear old oaks, so firmly interwoven in the scenes of innocent childhood and succeeding girlhood.

  3. In succeeding chapters we will allude to the rising career of Mr. Yorke as the occasion demands.

  4. The awful death of the king, and the succeeding excitements, had impressed the company with gloom.

  5. Each succeeding day grew darker and darker with enveloping glooms.

  6. The hours of a dark and gloomy night, succeeding this terrible day, lingered slowly along, but no sleep visited the eyelids of the inmates of the Tuileries.

  7. At length the morning succeeding this dreadful night dawned lurid and cheerless.

  8. Through all the long hours of the night succeeding this day of horror, Paris was one boiling caldron of tumult and passion.

  9. Each succeeding visit became more irksome, and at last, in inexpressible disgust with the weary monotony of fashionable dissipation, she declared that she would never enter the gardens of Marly again.

  10. The succeeding events in this camp may be seen by the relation which I send with this letter.

  11. In case of Legazpi's death the person succeeding to his office is to keep these instructions faithfully.

  12. Continued motion, without fatigue, keeps the body in health; and the rapidly succeeding changes in beautiful, free nature have the same strengthening influence on the mind.

  13. With anxiety she watched the slow decline of every succeeding day, hoping that each knock at the door would present either himself or an apology for his absence.

  14. Earl of Tinemouth's death, my father was also dead, who might have stood between me and my inclinations, and so preserved me from many succeeding sorrows.

  15. During this short interview, Thaddeus had received an impulse to his affections which hurried them forward with a force that neither time nor succeeding sorrows could stop nor stem.

  16. The whole of the succeeding day wore away in the same uncomfortable manner.

  17. When the count appeared the succeeding day in Harley Street, Miss Beaufort introduced him to Miss Dorothy Somerset as the gentleman who had so gallantly preserved the lives of the children at the hazard of his own.

  18. Every succeeding visit induced Miss Beaufort to observe him with a more lively interest.

  19. Each succeeding morning not only brought fresh symptoms of recovery to the two invalids, but condensed the mutual admiration of the young men into a solid and ardent esteem.

  20. Giorgio, and that of the church called the Madonna di Campagna, in which and other works that he is directing at Verona and other places, he is succeeding excellently well; and particularly in the ornamental work of the principal chapel of S.

  21. The winter succeeding the settlement of the Spaniards at St. Augustine, was most distressing and discouraging to them.

  22. Barcia mentions De Challeux, very contemptuously as a carpenter, who succeeding badly at his trade, took up that of preaching, but does not deny the truth of his narrative.

  23. The zeal of the Franciscans was only increased by this disaster, and each succeeding year brought additions to their number.

  24. It was this very effect which the eagles, by their screaming, had designed to produce; and certainly the fierce birds were succeeding to the utmost of their expectations.

  25. Not having fired at, or otherwise disturbed them, more than by approaching the flock, we were in great hopes of finding them the next day; but that and several succeeding ones were passed in a fruitless search.

  26. These thoughts, as we have said, arose on the morning of the second day succeeding that on which the balloon had been abandoned.

  27. The immediately succeeding stage claims for the moment the attention, and it again in its turn becomes the stepping-stone upon which the next raises itself, and so on.

  28. In the two succeeding figures (5, 6) the nose is narrowed at the base, which gives it the appearance of a beak, but the fact of its being still a human form is still shown by the breasts.

  29. Had the idea of an owl been developed through realistic degeneration in these last figures, it would have retained this form, but in the two succeeding figures (7, 8) it will be seen that the nose goes on diminishing.

  30. The Florentine school abounded in them, and these we shall consider all together in the succeeding epoch.

  31. In his succeeding philosophical and mathematical studies he was assisted by Father Boscovich, one of the first mathematicians of his day.

  32. The succeeding artists, who are chiefly Florentines, are named by Vasari in the Obsequies of Bonarruoti, in the memoirs of the academicians, written about the year 1567, and in several other places.

  33. In the second the drawing is good, but the colouring somewhat languid; and this style became the model for Bronzino and the artists of the succeeding epoch.

  34. In the succeeding pontificates, Michelangiolo, always occupied in sculpture and architecture, almost wholly abandoned painting, till he was induced by Paul III.

  35. They are among the last efforts of the school of Giotto, which succeeding artists abandoned, to adopt a better manner.

  36. Reform in any branch of study invariably depends on some rule, which, promulgated and adopted by the schools, gradually produces a general revolution in opinion, and opens a new field to the exertions of a succeeding age.

  37. Another place was assigned for their meetings, and they have frequently experienced the liberality of succeeding princes.

  38. The series of terrible incidents, so rapidly succeeding one another, along with the almost continuous exertions they had been compelled to make, had kept their minds from dwelling upon the condition of their appetites.

  39. The foregoing objections are more than overcome and compensated by the use and application of a "lapse" of one or more points, in excess of the thirteen points, and made to apply on the next succeeding game.

  40. Seventh—The lapse of all points, one or more, in excess of the thirteen points, to apply on the next succeeding game.

  41. We recalled how these thousands of wallows would be filled by the next rains, and how succeeding herds would bathe in the mud, and then march onward a moving mass of thick mortar.

  42. The impressions made upon the mind by Niagara grow on succeeding visits.

  43. He did not yet give up hope of succeeding in his mission.

  44. I should think they would have a bigger chance for succeeding in their undertaking, say away up in the Northwest, where the border isn't watched as closely as along here.

  45. Hungarian opponents at Varna, and the annexation of Servia and Bosnia in the succeeding reign are due in great measure to his toleration and prudence.

  46. It was, however, reserved for the sons of Othman to set the system on a permanent basis, and to the legislative genius of Alaeddin in the succeeding reign, was chiefly due the stability of the Ottoman race.

  47. The entire place was filled with mules and jackasses, their loads of fruit, vegetables, and drinkables lying beside them, awaiting the great jollification of the succeeding day.

  48. He did more than any succeeding navigator in stocking the islands with cattle, and his scientific duties were executed with exceeding accuracy for the means at his command.

  49. A few days succeeding our arrival, the ships were busily employed watering.

  50. But my self-respect and energy were stimulated, and I felt certain of succeeding in the end.

  51. A terrible wave, like an all-devouring monster, comes down upon us, but the boat glides smoothly over it, and the next moment we are down in a trough so deep that all the horizon is concealed by the succeeding crest.

  52. In the centre of the paved court rose a tall mast which had suffered severely from the wind, and had been fissured by many summers and the frosts of the succeeding winters, and from its top long flags hung down to the ground.

  53. After we had bought all the barley we could get hold of, our caravan had much increased, and the weeding-out effected in Kargil made the succeeding days of our journey to Leh much more agreeable than the previous.

  54. For forty-eight hours, he remained unconscious, and during the seven or eight succeeding days, frequently relapsed into insensibility.

  55. During the comments of The Rebel, a stranger, who evidently overheard them, rose from one of the tables in the place and sauntered over to the end of the bar, an attentive listener to the succeeding conversation.

  56. All we could hope to do was to force them to run straight, and in this respect we were succeeding splendidly, though to a certain extent it was a guess in the dark.

  57. Nor did the succeeding paragraphs leave them much chance of recovery.

  58. So much so, that he brought it in at the close of every succeeding verse.

  59. Our generation can only do its best for the future, and it must be left to succeeding generations to perpetuate the work initiated by us.

  60. It seemed hours before she dropped off in the first surrender to sleep; it seemed hours between the succeeding falls.

  61. Each succeeding spring saw the formal opening of the Faraway Country Club.

  62. If consequence do but approve my dream] [T: my deer] This reading is followed by the succeeding editions.

  63. This emendation has been received by the succeeding editors, but recedes too far from the copy.

  64. This emendation has been followed by both the succeeding editors, but I think it must be rejected.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "succeeding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    succeeding ages; succeeding generations; succeeding times