| 1. | The next day was as fine as its predecessor it was devoted by the party to an excursion to some site in the neighbourhood. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | The irrigation of these lands in the Zaraisky province had been initiated by the predecessor of Alexey Alexandrovitch's predecessor. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | Thus as my predecessor weakened his practice declined, until when I purchased it from him it had sunk from twelve hundred to little more than three hundred a year. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | Heav'n, as thou knowest, I have power to shut And open and the keys are therefore twain, The which my predecessor meanly priz'd.'. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 5. | In point of style and dramatic construction, it is by far the best of Marlowe's plays, and is a worthy predecessor of Shakespeare's historical drama. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 6. | Here on this ferry-boat, for instance, a man has been my predecessor and teacher, a holy man, who has for many years simply believed in the river, nothing else. - from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse |
| 7. | To enliven the audience the devil of the Miracle plays was introduced and another lively personage called the Vice was the predecessor of our modern clown and jester. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 8. | His best known work, "Christ's Victory and Triumph" , was the greatest religious poem that had appeared in England since "Piers Plowman," and is not an unworthy predecessor of _Paradise Lost_. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 9. | Did to his predecessors part withal. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | Take to you, as your predecessors have. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 11. | "You know he has nothing to recommend him but money and a ridiculous roll of addle-headed predecessors now, don't you. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 12. | cheap estimation, is worth all your predecessors since Deucalio. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 13. | and his predecessors and he saw that the complement was not half empty. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 14. | Under my head are dragg'd The rest, my predecessors in the guilt Of simony. - from The Divine Comedy, Complete by Dante Alighieri |
| 15. | Thus educated, they will invent for themselves any lesser rules which their predecessors have altogether neglected. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 16. | Name some of Shakespeare's predecessors in the drama What types of drama did they develop Name some plays of each type. - from English Literature by William J. Long |
| 17. | A second group of predecessors is found in the Italian and Spanish pastoral romances, which were inspired by the _Eclogues_ of Virgil. - from English Literature by William J. Long |