When we see the formations tabulated in written works, or when we follow them in nature, it is difficult to avoid believing that they are closely
consecutive. But we know, for instance, from Sir R.
I think that in those days I never forgot the fact of my elevation for five
consecutive minutes.
For two
consecutive seasons he lived in the sunlight of Mademoiselle Duvigne's presence.
Once I worked at my machine for thirty-six
consecutive hours.
"And one vote may decide the whole question and one must be serious and
consecutive, if one wants to be of use in public life," concluded Sergey Ivanovitch.
It was very strange that a young gentleman who had never been left to his own guidance for five
consecutive minutes, should be incapable at last of governing himself; but so it was with Tom.
In it, in bewildering confusion, were old sleighs, pungs, horse rakes, hogsheads, settees without backs, bed- steads without heads, in all stages of disability, and never the same on two
consecutive days.
Again, for the whole of a day or a morning the red would alternate with the black, but almost without any order, and from moment to moment, so that scarcely two
consecutive rounds would end upon either the one or the other.
Their general likeness to each other, and their
consecutive ages, would almost have suggested that they might be, what in fact they were, brothers.
I drank them neat for six
consecutive days, and they nearly killed me; but after then I adopted the plan of taking a stiff glass of brandy-and-water immediately on the top of them, and found much relief thereby.
Just as in a dream when all is uncertain, unreasoning, and contradictory, except the feeling that guides the dream, so in this intercourse contrary to all laws of reason, the words themselves were not
consecutive and clear but only the feeling that prompted them.
He slept a scant five hours, and only one with a constitution of iron could have held himself down, as Martin did, day after day, to nineteen
consecutive hours of toil.