How ready was Paul to acknowledge in others any kind of precedency! ❋ Unknown (1721)
Obama has hardly any political experience prior to his precedency. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Mrs. Berlinton, though she felt no resentment against Camilla for the desertion she had occasioned her, felt much surprize; not to be first was new to her: and whoever, in any station of life, any class of society, has had regular and acknowledged precedency, must own a sudden descent to be rather aukward. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Thou knowest that on this occasion it is one of these Counts, or western Franks, who undertakes the combat; and the Varangians, who call these people their enemies, have some reason to claim a precedency in guarding the lists, which it might not at this moment be convenient to dispute with them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To quote the great Dr Johnson: "Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea" ❋ Unknown (2008)
But we being in this world beset with sundry uneasinesses, distracted with different desires, the next inquiry naturally will be, — Which of them has the precedency in determining the will to the next action? and to that the answer is, — That ordinarily which is the most pressing of those that are judged capable of being then removed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But of faith, and the precedency it ought to have before other arguments of persuasion, I shall speak more hereafter; where I treat of it as it is ordinarily placed, in contradistinction to reason; though in truth it be nothing else but an assent founded on the highest reason. ❋ Unknown (2007)
These here mentioned, being the effects of sensation, are only from some affections of the body, which happen to them there, and so depend on something exterior to the mind; no otherwise differing in their manner of production from other ideas derived from sense, but only in the precedency of time. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country, (if they be not near kin or linked in marriage) but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children, friends and followers, some contention about wealth, gentry, precedency, &c., by means of which, like the frog in ❋ Unknown (2007)
We see the common quarrelings, that are ordinary with us, for taking of the wall, precedency, and the like, which though toys in themselves, and things of no moment, yet they cause many distempers, much heart-burning amongst us. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There were no ladies on board; the Major gave the pas of precedency to the civilian, so that he was the first dignitary at table, and treated by Captain Bragg and the officers of the ❋ Unknown (2006)
But we being in this world beset with sundry uneasinesses, distracted with different desires, the next inquiry naturally will be, - Which of them has the precedency in determining the will to the next action? and to that the answer is, - That ordinarily which is the most pressing of those that are judged capable of being then removed. ❋ Hill, George (2005)
Menelaus is accounted absurd and passed into a proverb, for pretending to advise when unasked; and sure he would be more ridiculous that instead of an entertainer should set up for a judge, when nobody requests him or submits to his determination which is the best and which the worst man in the company; for the guests do not come to contend about precedency, but to feast and be merry. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Even the severity of Lismahago relaxes, and the vinegar of Mrs Tabby is remarkably dulcified, ever since it was agreed that she should take precedency of her niece in being first noosed: for, you must know, the day is fixed for ❋ Unknown (2004)
Johnson at once felt himself roused; and answered, ‘Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)
For those advocates who had begun the quarrel, by setting first on foot the dispute of precedency, talked so loud of coming to a battle, that ❋ Unknown (2003)
Mekka, he obliged the Pashas who accompanied the pilgrim caravan, to acknowledge his right of precedency on all occasions; and he disseminated throughout the Hedjaz a belief that his rank was superior to that of any officer of the Porte; and that even at ❋ Unknown (2003)
Neither does He show Himself unmercifully just; for His goodness, no doubt, goes on before, and takes precedency. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
By contrast, in Virginia, observed a contemporary, “such amazing property . . . blows up the owners to an imagination . . . that they are exalted as much above other Men in worth & precedency, as blind stupid fortune has made a difference in their property.” ❋ Benson Bobrick (1997)
She preceded him into [the room] ❋ NotColombus (2020)
His [steez] screams [precedent], fresh [btown] status ❋ Your Boss (2008)
These [fake friends] are preceding me to become what [I want] ❋ Mlere (2018)
I messed up while DJing last night by playing [Plastikman] at the wrong speed, but i invoked [the Peel] [Precedent] and got away with it. It sounded just as good anyway... ❋ Charlie No4 (2007)
"[The Rittenhouse precedent] now gives [deranged] right-wingers the right to kill [my wife's boyfriend] if he chases one of them down in a riot" ❋ BlowtorchBassem (2021)
Did you read [about that] new [executive order]?
Wow! Precedent Obama is really making new [ground]! ❋ Theeea (2009)
Bob tells funny stories and does spontaneous imitations at work. each one is a little [funnier] than the one before. his [co-worker's] expectations track with his performance so that now he has to maintain the [gradient] of improvement every time he opens his mouth or, - and this is the key- they will respond as if it was less funny than it really is. He has trapped himself in a system of ascending precedents. ❋ Kenneth A. Vaughan (2008)
A few "classic" and disgraceful examples of a precedent of the United States would be Kennedy's philandering (and so Clinton and Dubya followed suit), [Nixon's] [dirty politics] (and so Reagan did likewise, as well), and [Reagan's] running rough-shod over everyone (just as The Donald is doing now). ❋ QuacksO (2019)
