... “Do you know who has just been nominated captain-general of the musketeers?—an appointment more valuable than a peerage; for it gives precedence over all the marechals of France... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...Her principal thought, and one that took precedence of all others, was to devise means of leaving this money for M...
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...His name being that of my own, mine was changed, for the purpose ofgiving precedence to his, though I was his senior by ten or twelveyears...
William Wells Brown 「The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave」
...But the headis irresistible in its claims to precedence...
William T. Hornaday 「The Extermination of the American Bison」
... Were strength to take precedence over the other zoological attributes, the Scoliae would hold a predominant place in the front rank of the Wasps...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...I call for a classification in which the insect's aptitudes, its diet, its industry and its habits shall take precedence of the shape of a joint in its antennae...
J. Henri Fabre 「More Hunting Wasps」
...'And do you like horses?'asked his lordship, darting sharply round on Emily, who had been yielding,or rather submitting, to the precedence of her sister...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...This cow, he was told, claimed precedence in all cases;she always went ahead of the herd and claimed the best pieceof pasture as her exclusive domain...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...The chiefs of the east took precedence over those of the south, as did those of the west over those of the north...
Edward S. Curtis 「The North American Indian」
...In1420 this precedence was decided by James I...
Dugald Butler and Herbert Story 「Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys」
...These bishops are mentioned in theorder of precedence, and it would appear that the See of York at thattime was the most important, or perhaps the oldest, in Britain...
A. Clutton-Brock 「The Cathedral Church of York」
...Brave as she was, the girl now hungback behind Dodd, letting the two mentake precedence of her...
Various 「Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930」
...In the first chapter of Genesisthe expressions for the days run, "The evening and the morning," as ifthe evening took precedence of the morning...
E. Walter Maunder 「The Astronomy of the Bible」
...Up and up heflew, while he carefully noted the order of precedence of those prophetswhose model he had proclaimed himself to be...
Dr. D.M. Brooks 「The Necessity of Atheism」
...Sothat the enquiry into the duration of life takes precedence of allothers...
Richard A. Proctor 「Myths and Marvels of Astronomy」
...They may perhaps dispute the rightof precedence with the Hottentots or the shivering tribes whoinhabit the shores of Magellan...
Watkin Tench 「A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson」
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