For example, if the proposition is "Socrates precedes Plato," the objective which verifies it results from replacing the word "Socrates" by Socrates, the word "Plato" by Plato, and the word "precedes" by the relation of
preceding between Socrates and Plato.
Nay, I must confess, that even I myself, who am not remarkably liable to be captivated with show, have yielded not a little to the impressions of much
preceding state.
We must, however, allow for the entire extinction of some preceding forms, and for the coming in of quite new forms by immigration, and for a large amount of modification, during the long and blank intervals between the successive formations.
It is no real objection to the truth of the statement, that the fauna of each period as a whole is nearly intermediate in character between the preceding and succeeding faunas, that certain genera offer exceptions to the rule.
These last should arise from the internal structure of the plot, so that what follows should be the necessary or probable result of the
preceding action.
Two of the members had been vice-presidents of the State, and several other members of the executive council, within the seven
preceding years.
During the three days
preceding the occupation of Moscow the whole Rostov family was absorbed in various activities.
According to the orders of the
preceding night, the heavy sleep of the army was broken by the rolling of the warning drums, whose rattling echoes were heard issuing, on the damp morning air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a soft and cloudless eastern sky.
According to due formality, the Disinherited Knight was to be considered as leader of the one body, while Brian de Bois-Guilbert, who had been rated as having done second-best in the
preceding day, was named first champion of the other band.
Crooks, -who, notwithstanding all that he had suffered in the dismal journey of the
preceding winter, was ready to retrace his steps and brave every danger and hardship, rather than remain at Astoria.
From Magdalen to Norah (inclosed in the
preceding Letter).
Fragment #1 -- Proclus, Chrestomathia, ii: The "Cypria", described in the
preceding book, has its sequel in the "Iliad" of Homer, which is followed in turn by the five books of the "Aethiopis", the work of Arctinus of Miletus.