...Our way led over a succession of low rolling ridges each higher than its predecessor... 
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
... The other mullet, which rose half an hour afterwards, swam closer to the ship than his predecessor, and received no second blow...
Horatio Bridge 「Journal of an African Cruiser」
...—"'The Mother's Recompense' forms a fitting close toits predecessor, 'Home Influence'...
Henry J. Slack 「Marvels of Pond-life」
...Of course, Bird Day will differfrom its successful predecessor, Arbor Day...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [June, 1897]」
...It eagerly plunges its head into the opening its predecessor had made; and begins the lengthy repast that shall transform it into a perfect insect...
Maurice Maeterlinck 「The Life of the Bee」
...My predecessor had gone in for it and done well by it, so people said...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Another grand dinner, on a more extensive scale than its predecessor,marked the day of this glorious run...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Sometimes, in order apparently that the new sovereign mayinherit more surely the magical and other virtues of the royalline, he is required to eat a piece of his dead predecessor...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
..., and the dedicatory inscription datesfrom the first year of his reign; but the work was really that of his auntand predecessor, Queen Hatshepsût...
Gaston Camille Charles Maspero 「Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt」
...” As to the extent to which the secondWilliam was guided by the plans of his predecessor we have no means ofjudging accurately...
Hartley Withers 「The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.].」
...At the close of Mary's reign Bishop Christopherson died, and in hisplace Elizabeth put William Barlow (1559-1568), who had beenremoved from the see of Bath and Wells by her predecessor...
Hubert C. Corlette 「Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901)」
...He was, as might be expected, very zealousin completing the chapel at the monastery gate which his predecessor hadbegun to raise in honour of the martyred Archbishop...
W.D. Sweeting 「The Cathedral Church of Peterborough」
...It has been supposedthat the chief object of making the new nave so much wider and loftierthan its predecessor, was that it might be built round the old workwithout interfering with its utility...
A. Clutton-Brock 「The Cathedral Church of York」
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