...You shall only have this lesson, Monsieur d’Artagnan, as the punishment of your want of discipline, and I will not imitate my predecessors in anger, not having imitated them in favor... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...as the "Royal African Company,"proved more successful than its predecessors, andcarried on a growing trade for a quarter of a century...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...The squadron commanders of this time were by no meansas efficient as their predecessors, and spent much of theirtime, apparently, in discussing the Right of Search...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America」
...Another flash darted from the sky, more vivid than its predecessors, with a loud hissing, crackling sound...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...One ofthe predecessors of these dogs, an intelligent animal, which hadserved the hospital for the space of twelve years, had, during thattime, saved the lives of many individuals...
Edward Jesse 「Anecdotes of Dogs」
...not only did more for the advancement of the wool-tradethan his predecessors, but also gave it greater vigour than it couldlay claim to at any former period...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...Rumford understood the athermic properties of a blanket of air-cells,thanks to the accumulated knowledge of his predecessors and his ownstudies and experiments...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...She too has the tendency to economize her strength by turning the work of her predecessors to account...
J. Henri Fabre 「Bramble-bees and Others」
...Sometimes it would appear that the spiritual link between a kingand the souls of his predecessors is formed by the possession ofsome part of their persons...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...As soon as the new government was established and had turned its attention to foreign affairs, it found itself in as great a dilemma as had its predecessors, the Tokugawa rulers...
Sidney L. Gulick 「Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic」
...It so far surpassed its predecessors, and Pander inparticular, that it has become, after Wolff’s work, the chief base ofmodern embryology...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
...The mostimportant of these are the apes and their predecessors, the half-apes, and theearliest Placentals (Prochoriata)...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
...Many more of the same sort have been discovered,differing from their vase predecessors in material and form, butkeeping to the old principles...
Various 「The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1」
...I shallnext speak of the waxing and waning of the moon, according to theaccounts of my predecessors...
Vitruvius 「Ten Books on Architecture」
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