4 examples of antecessor in sentences

No one was so rude as your ascetic antecessor.

Yet who says, I have faith in the existence of George II., as his present Majesty's antecessor and grandfather?If testimony, then evidence too;and who has faith that the two sides of all triangles are greater than the third?

"It seemeth to us, sir," said they to the king, "that, if you think you have not a right to the conquest won by you and your antecessors from the King of England, you do not make proper restitution to the said king in not restoring to him the whole; and if you think you have a right to it, it seemeth to us that you are a loser by all you restore."

"Sirs," answered Louis, "I am certain that the antecessors of the King of England did quite justly lose the conquest which I hold; and as for the land I give him, I give it him not as a matter in which I am bound to him or his heirs, but to make love between my children and his, who are cousins-german.

4 examples of  antecessor  in sentences