After they became regular and annual, any entertainment vowed by a general had to take place on other days; thus in the year 70 B.C. Pompey's triumphal ludi votivi immediately preceded the Ludi Romani of that year, giving the people in all some thirty days of holiday.

Here, for the first time, the Caternas saw pass along between the inhabitants, who stood at attention more from fear than respect, a mandarin on horseback, preceded by a servant carrying a fringed parasol, the mark of his master's dignity.

They have been preceded by no impressions or forebodings, but have come suddenly upon me, and have insisted on being composed immediately, so that I have felt an instinctive and dreamy impulse to write them down on the spot.

I have never since been on the sea at midnight, but that hand has followed or preceded me; I have never ."

" He preceded her down the few remaining yards of the trail.

I did not learn until afterwards that a preliminary chat with my chauffeur had preceded his hospitable advances.

During the long, sickening weeks that preceded the coming of the Syndicate, Hollingsworth Chase toiled faithfully, resolutely for the restoration of order and system among the demoralised people of Japat.

The day that preceded the night of which we are about to speak, was misty, with the wind fresh at east-south-east.

A number preceded by R. marks the camps on the return journey.

"Ment, like other terminations, changes y into i, when the y is preceded by a consonant.

D, in the termination ed, preceded by a sharp consonant, takes the sound of t, when the e is suppressed or unheard: as in faced, stuffed, cracked, tripped, passed; pronounced faste, stuft, cract, tript, past.

But the round of decorous pleasure in which the Sedley family now indulged was soon broken by Mrs. Sedley's death, and old Sedley was not long in following his wife whither she had preceded him.

In considering the various styles, we must always bear in mind that, with the exception of the Egyptian, all show very markedly the influence of the styles that preceded them, being very often merely an outgrowth or development of a preceding one.

It arose in Italy, and while preserving generally the materials of the style that preceded it, it added as characteristic features the scroll and the shell.

His amusement turned to surprise when the picturesque pair preceded him up the street and turned in at his own yard.

Various squads of men, preceded and followed by bayonets, were marching with rhythmic tread from one port to another.

The produce of our factories has preceded even our most enterprising travellers.

The above stanza, being numbered "5," of course it was preceded by four others, of which I can give no account.

In the campaign which preceded Mr. Buchanan's election, Mr. Lincoln, at the head of the Frémont electoral ticket for Illinois, took a prominent part, traversing the State in every direction, and making about fifty speeches.

The arrogant address which preceded his resignation contained the remarkable intimation that much more serious results might have grown out of the incident.

Whence he had returned only just in time to stand beside Flora Valcour, preceded by a relative of the bridegroom paired with Anna.

The first woman artist in England was Susannah Hornebolt, daughter of the principal painter who immediately preceded Hans Holbein, Gerard Hornebolt, a native of Ghent.

Placed by itself under the heading L'Inquisition in the series of 1859, and preceded by the following note:'Le baptême des volcans est un ancien usage qui remonte

It is therefore significant that the earliest pastoral poetry with which we are acquainted, whatever half articulate experiments may have preceded it, was itself directly born of the contrast between the recollections of a childhood spent among the Sicilian uplands and the crowded social and intellectual city-life of Alexandria.

Vowels are "with stress" when they are the finals in the plurals of nouns and verbs, also in the perfect preterite, in possessives ending in â, ê, ô, and in the penultimate of nouns ending in tli, tla and tle when these syllables are immediately preceded by the vowel.